South Carolina

Storm History: Greenwood County, South Carolina

428 episodes, 535 events since 1958

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Greenwood 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
535
Deaths
5
Injuries
31
Damage
$93 million
Episodes
428

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
Hail16901$51,000
Thunderstorm Wind13500$302,000
Tornado80229$19 million
Drought4000
Flash Flood2300$485,000
Winter Weather1600
Ice Storm1000$6.7 million
Lightning901$176,000
Flood900$31,000
Heavy Snow800
Winter Storm700
High Wind700$55,000
Cold/Wind Chill610$50 million
Dense Fog400
Strong Wind300$10,000
Tropical Storm310$15 million
Frost/Freeze200$1.0 million
Excessive Heat200
Heat110
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill100

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 Greenwood County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Greenwood CountyEvery warning in Greenwood 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.