South Carolina

Storm History: Anderson County, South Carolina

724 episodes, 1,016 events since 1955

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Anderson 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
1,016
Deaths
16
Injuries
27
Damage
$95 million
Episodes
724

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
Hail383212$1.5 million
Thunderstorm Wind25601$2.6 million
Tornado149012$11 million
Flash Flood5500$1.3 million
Drought4200
Winter Weather2700
Flood1600$117,000
High Wind1200$55,000
Heavy Snow1200$2,000
Winter Storm1000$10,000
Cold/Wind Chill1060$50 million
Ice Storm800$13 million
Heavy Rain700$1,000
Lightning502$5.2 million
Strong Wind510$130,000
Heat440
Dense Fog300
Tropical Storm330$7.3 million
Sleet200
Frost/Freeze200$3.0 million
Excessive Heat200
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill100
Funnel Cloud100
Freezing Fog100

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 Anderson County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Anderson CountyEvery warning in Anderson 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.