South Carolina, 2025

Rip Current in South Carolina, July 6, 2025

July 6, 2025 · NWS CHS · 1 event in 1 county or zone

Onshore winds and lingering swell energy combined to produce an enhanced risk of rip currents along the southeast South Carolina coast.

The toll

Deaths
0
Injuries
2
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.

What happened

The episode as NWS CHS wrote it up.

Onshore winds and lingering swell energy combined to produce an enhanced risk of rip currents along the southeast South Carolina coast.

Event by event

1 rip current. Local standard time, as filed.

Rip Current, Southern Colleton

When
July 6, 1:29 PM EST to 1:44 PM EST
Where
Southern Colleton forecast zone
Injuries
2 direct, 0 indirect
Reported by
Emergency Manager

Colleton County Emergency Management reported that two people were rescued from a rip current in the 1000 block of Palmetto Boulevard on Edisto Beach. Both people were transported to the hospital due to respiratory distress.

What these are

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.

The same day elsewhere

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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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 1286229.