South Carolina

Storm History: Lee County, South Carolina

208 episodes, 268 events since 1962

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Lee 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
268
Deaths
1
Injuries
10
Damage
$3.3 million
Episodes
208

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
Hail11602$199,000
Thunderstorm Wind5900$81,000
Tornado4818$1.2 million
Flash Flood1500$1.8 million
Ice Storm800$15,000
Winter Storm700
Heavy Snow500
Tropical Storm300
Winter Weather200$3,000
Lightning100$60,000
Strong Wind100$10,000
Excessive Heat100
Heavy Rain100
High Wind100

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 Lee County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

More

Tornadoes in Lee CountyEvery warning in Lee 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.