Storms in South Carolina in 2023
Every storm the National Weather Service filed in South Carolina in 2023, with each episode’s narrative and every event in it. From 1996 the record holds 48 kinds of event with each office’s narrative; before that, tornadoes, hail and thunderstorm wind only, and before 1955 tornadoes alone.
South Carolina in 2023 on the map
Every episode with a place to put it, colored by kind of event.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The year
- Events
- 926
- Deaths
- 5
- Injuries
- 8
- Damage
- $13 million
- Episodes
- 148
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.
By kind of event
| Kind of event | Events | Deaths | Injuries | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Thunderstorm Wind | 596 | 0 | 4 | $1.8 million |
| Hail | 89 | 1 | 1 | $667,000 |
| Strong Wind | 71 | 1 | 0 | $67,000 |
| Flash Flood | 45 | 1 | 0 | $642,000 |
| Coastal Flood | 29 | 0 | 0 | |
| Tropical Storm | 20 | 0 | 0 | |
| Tornado | 19 | 0 | 2 | $1.3 million |
| Lightning | 18 | 0 | 1 | $8.0 million |
| Storm Surge/Tide | 12 | 0 | 0 | |
| Heavy Rain | 9 | 0 | 0 | |
| Flood | 6 | 0 | 0 | $57,000 |
| Rip Current | 5 | 2 | 0 | |
| High Surf | 4 | 0 | 0 | |
| Funnel Cloud | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| High Wind | 1 | 0 | 0 |
Every episode, month by month
January 2023
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, January 4, 2023
- Flash Flood and Flood in South Carolina, January 4, 2023
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in South Carolina, January 4, 2023
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, January 4, 2023
- Tornadoes and Hail in South Carolina, January 12, 2023
- Damaging Winds in South Carolina, January 12, 2023
February 2023
March 2023
- Damaging Winds and Strong Wind in South Carolina, March 3, 2023
- Tornadoes and Hail in South Carolina, March 3, 2023
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, March 25, 2023
- Flash Flooding and Hail in South Carolina, March 26 to 27, 2023
April 2023
- Strong Wind in South Carolina, April 1, 2023
- Lightning Strike in South Carolina, April 7, 2023
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Carolina, April 22, 2023
- Hail in South Carolina, April 22, 2023
- Hail in South Carolina, April 26, 2023
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Carolina, April 30, 2023
- Strong Wind in South Carolina, April 30, 2023
- Damaging Winds in South Carolina, April 30, 2023
May 2023
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, May 7, 2023
- Hail and Damaging Wind in South Carolina, May 9, 2023
- Hail in South Carolina, May 9, 2023
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Carolina, May 9, 2023
- Strong Wind in South Carolina, May 14, 2023
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Carolina, May 16, 2023
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Carolina, May 17, 2023
- Coastal Flood in South Carolina, May 18, 2023
- Coastal Flood in South Carolina, May 18, 2023
- Strong Wind in South Carolina, May 27, 2023
- Strong Wind in South Carolina, May 27, 2023
June 2023
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, June 3, 2023
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Carolina, June 6, 2023
- Hail and Damaging Wind in South Carolina, June 6, 2023
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Carolina, June 6, 2023
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in South Carolina, June 7, 2023
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Carolina, June 7, 2023
- Damaging Winds in South Carolina, June 11, 2023
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in South Carolina, June 11, 2023
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in South Carolina, June 11 to 12, 2023
- Damaging Winds in South Carolina, June 12, 2023
- Damaging Winds in South Carolina, June 14, 2023
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Carolina, June 15, 2023
- Hail in South Carolina, June 18, 2023
- Damaging Winds in South Carolina, June 19, 2023
- Rip Current in South Carolina, June 20, 2023
- Flash Flood and Damaging Wind in South Carolina, June 21, 2023
- Rip Current in South Carolina, June 21, 2023
- Hail in South Carolina, June 21, 2023
- Flash Flood and Damaging Winds in South Carolina, June 22, 2023
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, June 23, 2023
- Damaging Winds in South Carolina, June 25, 2023
- Hail and Damaging Wind in South Carolina, June 26, 2023
- Damaging Winds in South Carolina, June 26 to 27, 2023
- Damaging Winds in South Carolina, June 27, 2023
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, June 29, 2023
July 2023
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Carolina, July 1, 2023
- Rip Current in South Carolina, July 2, 2023
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strikes in South Carolina, July 2, 2023
- Hail in South Carolina, July 3, 2023
- Damaging Wind and Lightning Strike in South Carolina, July 3, 2023
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Carolina, July 3, 2023
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Carolina, July 4, 2023
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in South Carolina, July 4, 2023
- Damaging Winds in South Carolina, July 4, 2023
- Damaging Winds in South Carolina, July 4, 2023
- Lightning Strike in South Carolina, July 5, 2023
- Flash Flooding and Heavy Rain in South Carolina, July 5, 2023
- Damaging Winds in South Carolina, July 7, 2023
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, July 7, 2023
- Damaging Winds in South Carolina, July 8, 2023
- Damaging Winds in South Carolina, July 9, 2023
- Rip Current in South Carolina, July 11, 2023
- Hail in South Carolina, July 13, 2023
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Winds in South Carolina, July 14, 2023
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, July 14, 2023
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, July 15, 2023
- Damaging Winds in South Carolina, July 18 to 19, 2023
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Carolina, July 19, 2023
- Damaging Winds in South Carolina, July 20, 2023
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, July 20, 2023
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in South Carolina, July 20, 2023
- Damaging Winds in South Carolina, July 20, 2023
- Damaging Winds in South Carolina, July 21, 2023
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Carolina, July 23, 2023
- Damaging Winds in South Carolina, July 23, 2023
- Damaging Winds in South Carolina, July 23, 2023
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, July 23, 2023
- Flood in South Carolina, July 23, 2023
- Strong Wind in South Carolina, July 27, 2023
- Strong Wind in South Carolina, July 28, 2023
- Damaging Winds in South Carolina, July 28, 2023
- Rip Current in South Carolina, July 29, 2023
- Damaging Winds in South Carolina, July 29, 2023
- Damaging Winds in South Carolina, July 30, 2023
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strikes in South Carolina, July 30, 2023
- Lightning Strike in South Carolina, July 31, 2023
- Hail in South Carolina, July 31, 2023
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, July 31, 2023
- Damaging Winds in South Carolina, July 31, 2023
August 2023
- Coastal Flood in South Carolina, August 2, 2023
- Tornadoes in South Carolina, August 3, 2023
- Damaging Winds in South Carolina, August 6, 2023
- Flash Flooding in South Carolina, August 6, 2023
- Damaging Winds in South Carolina, August 6 to 7, 2023
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Carolina, August 7, 2023
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in South Carolina, August 7, 2023
- Damaging Winds in South Carolina, August 7, 2023
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, August 8, 2023
- Damaging Winds in South Carolina, August 8, 2023
- Damaging Winds in South Carolina, August 10, 2023
- Lightning Strike in South Carolina, August 11, 2023
- Damaging Winds in South Carolina, August 11, 2023
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, August 11, 2023
- Damaging Winds in South Carolina, August 12, 2023
- Damaging Winds in South Carolina, August 14, 2023
- Damaging Winds in South Carolina, August 15, 2023
- Damaging Winds in South Carolina, August 15, 2023
- Damaging Winds in South Carolina, August 15, 2023
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, August 15, 2023
- Damaging Winds in South Carolina, August 16, 2023
- Flood and Damaging Winds in South Carolina, August 16, 2023
- Damaging Winds in South Carolina, August 24, 2023
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in South Carolina, August 26, 2023
- Flash Flood and Damaging Wind in South Carolina, August 27, 2023
- Funnel Cloud in South Carolina, August 29, 2023
- Tornadoes and Tropical Storm in South Carolina, August 30 to 31, 2023
- Tornado and Tropical Storm in South Carolina, August 30 to 31, 2023
- Tornado and Tropical Storm in South Carolina, August 30 to 31, 2023
September 2023
- Hail and Damaging Wind in South Carolina, September 6, 2023
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Carolina, September 7, 2023
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Carolina, September 7, 2023
- Strong Wind in South Carolina, September 10, 2023
- Damaging Wind and Lightning Strike in South Carolina, September 10, 2023
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Carolina, September 11, 2023
- Damaging Winds in South Carolina, September 12, 2023
- Damaging Wind in South Carolina, September 12, 2023
- Damaging Winds in South Carolina, September 12 to 13, 2023
- Flash Flood in South Carolina, September 17, 2023
- Coastal Flood in South Carolina, September 28, 2023
October 2023
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Carolina, October 20, 2023
- Hail and Damaging Wind in South Carolina, October 20, 2023
- Damaging Winds in South Carolina, October 20, 2023
- Damaging Winds in South Carolina, October 20, 2023
November 2023
December 2023
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Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24.