South Carolina

Storms in South Carolina in 2024

1,127 events in 155 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in South Carolina in 2024, 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 2024 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

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The year

Events
1,127
Deaths
44
Injuries
17
Damage
$473 million
Episodes
155

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 eventEventsDeathsInjuriesDamage
Thunderstorm Wind49101$481,000
Flash Flood19120$557,000
Hail12902$27 million
Strong Wind11206
Tropical Storm59160$126 million
Tornado57214$319 million
Flood2700$1,000
High Wind1800$20,000
Coastal Flood1300
Lightning900$47,000
Rip Current741
Cold/Wind Chill600
Heavy Rain400
Funnel Cloud200
Dense Fog103
Excessive Heat110

Every episode, month by month

January 2024

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November 2024

December 2024

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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.