South Carolina

Storm History: Dillon County, South Carolina

238 episodes, 316 events since 1955

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Dillon 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
316
Deaths
4
Injuries
49
Damage
$36 million
Episodes
238

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
Thunderstorm Wind11204$572,000
Hail9802$288,000
Tornado41342$8.5 million
Hurricane (Typhoon)1210$18 million
Winter Storm1000
Drought800
Winter Weather600
Ice Storm500$2.8 million
High Wind401$6.6 million
Heavy Snow400
Heat400
Tropical Storm300$5,000
Strong Wind300$4,000
Flash Flood200
Flood200
Lightning100$1,000
Funnel Cloud100

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 Dillon County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Dillon CountyEvery warning in Dillon 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.