A large cluster of thunderstorms impacted portions of southeast South Carolina in the early evening hours. These thunderstorms became strong enough to produce 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 CHS wrote it up.
A large cluster of thunderstorms impacted portions of southeast South Carolina in the early evening hours. These thunderstorms became strong enough to produce damaging wind gusts.
The Charleston,SC radar (KCLX), 33 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:38 UTC.
2 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Colleton County Emergency Management reported a tree down blocking one lane near the intersection of Cane Branch Road and Cavanaugh Road.
Colleton County Emergency Management reported two trees down in the Walterboro area. One tree was down at Industrial Road and Jefferies Highway and the other tree was down at Otis Road and Sunny Drive.
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, May 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: 1185431, 1185438.