South Carolina

Storm History: Aiken County, South Carolina

489 episodes, 886 events since 1955

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Aiken 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
886
Deaths
12
Injuries
38
Damage
$66 million
Episodes
489

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
Hail30801$302,000
Thunderstorm Wind25804$947,000
Tornado1731128$63 million
Flash Flood10100$1.3 million
Ice Storm800
Strong Wind700$25,000
Winter Storm700
Flood600$2,000
Lightning415$4,000
High Wind400$25,000
Heavy Snow300
Wildfire300
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill200
Tropical Depression100
Tropical Storm100

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 Aiken County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Aiken CountyEvery warning in Aiken 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.