South Carolina

Storm History: Bamberg County, South Carolina

217 episodes, 299 events since 1951

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Bamberg 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
299
Deaths
0
Injuries
37
Damage
$15 million
Episodes
217

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
Hail12000$68,000
Tornado7406$9.1 million
Thunderstorm Wind6200$5.6 million
Flash Flood24030$286,000
Ice Storm600
Winter Storm401$12,000
Heavy Snow400
Flood200
High Wind100$10,000
Strong Wind100$10,000
Tropical Storm100

The deadliest

None recorded.

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 Bamberg County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Bamberg CountyEvery warning in Bamberg 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.