South Carolina, 2025Rip Current in South Carolina, July 4, 2025
July 4, 2025 · NWS CHS · 1 event in 1 county or zone
Gusty winds along the coast combined with increasing swell energy resulted in an enhanced risk of rip currents along the southeast South Carolina coast.
- Deaths
- 1
- Injuries
- 0
- 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.
Gusty winds along the coast combined with increasing swell energy resulted in an enhanced risk of rip currents along the southeast South Carolina coast.
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 4, 9:42 AM EST, 1 hour 18 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 4, 9:42 AM EST, 1 hour 18 minutes before
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Local storm report, Jul 4, 7:40 AM EST, 3 hours 20 minutes before
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</html>Rip Current, Beaufort
- When
- July 4, 11:00 AM EST to 11:15 AM EST
- Where
- Beaufort forecast zone
- Deaths
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Reported by
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Beaufort County Emergency Management reported that a one person drowned and several others were rescued from a rip current at Hunting Island State Park beach. The rip current occurred in front of the Hunting Island lighthouse.
- Rip Current
- A narrow, fast current flowing away from the beach that caused a drowning or rescue.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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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. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 1286227.