South Carolina

Storm History: Jasper County, South Carolina

277 episodes, 496 events since 1965

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Jasper 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
496
Deaths
0
Injuries
5
Damage
$980,000
Episodes
277

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.

Open the live radar over Jasper County

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 Wind28400$191,000
Hail13502$135,000
Tornado4401$634,000
Flash Flood2700$19,000
Storm Surge/Tide300
Lightning202$1,000
Tropical Storm100$1,000

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 Jasper County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Jasper CountyEvery warning in Jasper 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.