South Carolina

Storm History: Abbeville County, South Carolina

333 episodes, 388 events since 1956

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Abbeville County, South Carolina: floods, hail, damaging wind, tornadoes, winter storms, heat and the rest, with the most serious on record. Events filed by forecast zone count for every county the zone covers.

The record

Events
388
Deaths
9
Injuries
67
Damage
$91 million
Episodes
333

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.

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Every year

From 1996 the record holds 48 kinds of event with each office’s narrative; before that, tornadoes, hail and thunderstorm wind only, and before 1955 tornadoes alone.

By kind of event

Counted under the kind that heads each episode.

Kind of eventEventsDeathsInjuriesDamage
Hail11300$120,000
Thunderstorm Wind7101$55,000
Tornado64766$30 million
Drought4200
Flash Flood2100$182,000
Winter Weather1700
Ice Storm1000$6.6 million
Heavy Snow900
Winter Storm700
Lightning700$410,000
High Wind700$15,000
Cold/Wind Chill610$50 million
Flood300$500
Dense Fog300
Frost/Freeze200$1.0 million
Excessive Heat200
Heat110
Strong Wind100
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill100
Tropical Storm100$3.0 million

The deadliest

The costliest

Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.

The largest hail

The largest stone in each episode, which may have fallen in a neighboring county of the same episode.

The strongest tornadoes

Every tornado in Abbeville County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Abbeville CountyEvery warning in Abbeville County since 1986Every county in South Carolina

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 2026-09-24.