A band of showers and thunderstorms, associated with a cold front, moved through the region during the early morning of April 3, 2024. Some of the storms produced strong damaging wind gusts.
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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.
The episode as NWS CAE wrote it up.
A band of showers and thunderstorms, associated with a cold front, moved through the region during the early morning of April 3, 2024. Some of the storms produced strong damaging wind gusts.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Columbia, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 2, 6:23 PM EST, 8 hours 55 minutes earlier.
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</html>The Columbia radar (KCAE), 112 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 08:15 UTC.
19 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Report and photo, observed on social media, showed a pine tree down on a vehicle in Hawe Creek Campground, site number 30. Damage to the vehicle appeared minor. | Time estimated.
A tree was downed at Hwy 28 S and Ga Ln, just south of Plum Branch. Time estimated.
A tree was downed on Hwy 28 S at Wiggleton Rd, just NW of Parksville. Time estimated.
Public report and photo, submitted via social media, of large tree branches down on the road on Meeting Street Rd, north of Edgefield. Exact location and time estimated.
Gage at ETV tower in Aiken, on Barnwell Ave NW near John Elliot Ln, measured a peak wind gust of 55 mph.
ASOS unit at Columbia Metropolitan Airport measured a peak wind gust of 48 mph.
Lexington PD reported a large tree blocking Harmon St near Taylor Dr. Time estimated.
RCWINDS gage at Richland Co EM HQ, near Harden St and Hampton St, measured a wind gust of 54 mph.
Columbia FD relayed a report of a tree that fell through a home on Meadow Wood Dr in Oak Grove.
Richland Co EM reported power lines down in the roadway at Hampton St and Laurens St in Columbia.
SCHP reported trees down on Methodist Park Rd near Augusta Rd (US Hwy 1). Time estimated.
Columbia FD relayed a report of a tree falling on a residence along Joyner Ave in West Columbia. Time estimated.
ASOS unit at Owens Field Airport measured a peak wind gust of 49 mph.
Richland Co EM reported a tree fell at Chester St and Gadsden St in north Columbia. | Time estimated.
University of SC PD reported a large tree fell on campus along Barnwell Rd between Pendleton St and Gibbes Ct.
SCHP reported trees down on Crystal Springs Dr near Edmund Hwy (SC Hwy 302). Time estimated.
Richland Co EM reported a tree fell along Woodrow St at Wheat St.
Columbia FD reported a tree fell on a residence at Barhamville Rd at Slighs Ave. Time estimated.
Richland Co EM reported a tree fell on power lines at S Ott Rd and Gill St, near Owens Field. Time estimated.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in South Carolina in 2024Every state in 2024This day in weather historyWarnings in South Carolina, April 2024
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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 1161214, 1161215, 1161216, 1161217, 1161230, 1161233, 1161219, 1161231, 1161220, 1161221, 1161222, 1161227, 1161232, 1161224, 1161228, 1161223, 1161229, 1161225, 1161226.