South Carolina, 2025Lightning Strike in South Carolina, July 3, 2025
July 3, 2025 · NWS CHS · 1 event in 1 county or zone
Isolated thunderstorms developed in the mid to late morning hours across Beaufort County near a weak front. These storms produced cloud to ground lightning strikes which resulted in a minor injury.
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- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 1
- Property damage
- None recorded
- 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.
Isolated thunderstorms developed in the mid to late morning hours across Beaufort County near a weak front. These storms produced cloud to ground lightning strikes which resulted in a minor injury.
What forecasters said that day
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 Charleston, SC wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 3, 12:57 AM EST, 9 hours 49 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 3, 12:57 AM EST, 9 hours 49 minutes before
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Local storm report, Jul 3, 9:22 AM EST, 1 hour 24 minutes before
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</html>Lightning, Beaufort
- When
- July 3, 10:46 AM EST to 10:47 AM EST
- Where
- Beaufort County, 2.38 mi NNE of Forest Beach
- Injuries
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Reported by
- Emergency Manager
- Coordinates
- 32.180, -80.730
Beaufort County Emergency Management reported that a lightning strike caused a branch to fall out of a tree, striking an individual and resulting in minor injuries.
- Lightning
- A lightning strike that killed, injured or caused damage.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
- Damaging Winds in New Jersey, July 3, 20252 deaths · $50,000 · 60 kt wind · 5 events
- Hail and Damaging Winds in New York, July 3, 2025$25 million · 2 in hail · 60 events
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Wisconsin, July 3 to 4, 2025$510,000 · 1 in hail · 11 events
- Flash Flooding in Texas, July 3, 2025$225,000 · 9 events
- Damaging Winds in Pennsylvania, July 3, 2025$182,000 · 87 kt wind · 10 events
- Damaging Winds in Connecticut, July 3, 20251 injured · $55,000 · 60 kt wind · 12 events
- Hail and Damaging Winds in North Dakota, July 3 to 4, 2025$90,000 · 1 in hail · 9 events
- Damaging Winds in Massachusetts, July 3, 2025$40,000 · 54 kt wind · 12 events
- Hail and Damaging Winds in New York, July 3, 2025$32,000 · 1.5 in hail · 13 events
- Damaging Winds in New Jersey, July 3, 202554 kt wind · 37 events
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Vermont, July 3, 2025$31,000 · 1.5 in hail · 10 events
- Hail and Damaging Winds in New York, July 3, 2025$20,000 · 1 in hail · 11 events
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: 1286225.