South Carolina, 2020Lightning Strike in South Carolina, September 11, 2020
September 11, 2020 · NWS CHS · 1 event in 1 county or zone
Scattered to numerous thunderstorms developed along the sea breeze in the late morning hours across portions of southeast South Carolina. These thunderstorms produced dangerous cloud-to-ground lightning strikes.
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- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 1
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
Scattered to numerous thunderstorms developed along the sea breeze in the late morning hours across portions of southeast South Carolina. These thunderstorms produced dangerous cloud-to-ground lightning strikes.
Lightning, Beaufort
- When
- September 11, 11:18 AM EST to 11:19 AM EST
- Where
- Beaufort County, 1.88 mi WSW of Baileys Lndg
- Injuries
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Reported by
- Emergency Manager
- Coordinates
- 32.340, -80.910
The Beaufort County Emergency Manager reported that a male was struck by lightning in a house at 324 Old Oak Road. The individual was working inside a house under construction when lightning struck the house, causing moderate damage to an exterior wall. The individual was leaning against the wall, had no visible injuries, but was shaken up. He walked to the ambulance under his own power.
- Lightning
- A lightning strike that killed, injured or caused damage.
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