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South Carolina Flood Stories

1,179 first-hand accounts of flood events in South Carolina, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.

Flash Flood$50K damage

Horry, SC · Oct 5, 2015

A deep amplitude east coast upper trough closed off across the southeast states for several days while a surface front meandered across the area. Deep moisture from the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean continued to feed into the area.

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Flash Flood$50K damage

Horry, SC · Oct 4, 2015

A deep amplitude east coast upper trough closed off across the southeast states for several days while a surface front meandered across the area. Deep moisture from the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean continued to feed into the area.

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Flash Flood$50K damage

Horry, SC · Oct 4, 2015

A deep amplitude east coast upper trough closed off across the southeast states for several days while a surface front meandered across the area. Deep moisture from the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean continued to feed into the area.

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Flash Flood$100K damage

Pickens, SC · Aug 10, 2014

A backdoor cold front moving from the northeast toward the southwest caused numerous thunderstorms and heavy rain showers to suddenly erupt as it moved across northern portions of Upstate South Carolina during the evening.

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Flash Flood$45K damage

Horry, SC · Oct 4, 2015

A deep amplitude east coast upper trough closed off across the southeast states for several days while a surface front meandered across the area. Deep moisture from the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean continued to feed into the area.

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Flash Flood$40K damage

Horry, SC · Oct 4, 2015

A deep amplitude east coast upper trough closed off across the southeast states for several days while a surface front meandered across the area. Deep moisture from the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean continued to feed into the area.

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Flash Flood$38K damage

Berkeley, SC · Aug 31, 2015

A mid level shortwave trough passed just north and west of the region throughout the day. Forcing associated with this feature interacted with a deep plume of moisture, helping produce widespread rain along and east of Interstate 95.

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Flash Flood$35K damage

Georgetown, SC · Oct 4, 2015

A deep amplitude east coast upper trough closed off across the southeast states for several days while a surface front meandered across the area. Deep moisture from the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean continued to feed into the area.

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Flash Flood$35K damage

Williamsburg, SC · Oct 3, 2015

A deep amplitude east coast upper trough closed off across the southeast states for several days while a surface front meandered across the area. Deep moisture from the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean continued to feed into the area.

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Flash Flood$30K damage

Georgetown, SC · Oct 4, 2015

A deep amplitude east coast upper trough closed off across the southeast states for several days while a surface front meandered across the area. Deep moisture from the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean continued to feed into the area.

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Flash Flood$30K damage

Williamsburg, SC · Oct 3, 2015

A deep amplitude east coast upper trough closed off across the southeast states for several days while a surface front meandered across the area. Deep moisture from the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean continued to feed into the area.

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Flash Flood$30K damage

Williamsburg, SC · Oct 3, 2015

A deep amplitude east coast upper trough closed off across the southeast states for several days while a surface front meandered across the area. Deep moisture from the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean continued to feed into the area.

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Tropical Storm

Central Horry, SC · Sep 15, 2018

Hurricane Florence began its long Atlantic trek from the Cape Verde Islands in early September. It made landfall near Wrightsville Beach during the morning of September 14th.

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Flash Flood$25K damage

Horry, SC · Oct 4, 2015

A deep amplitude east coast upper trough closed off across the southeast states for several days while a surface front meandered across the area. Deep moisture from the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean continued to feed into the area.

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Flood$50K damage

Greenville, SC · Aug 10, 2014

A backdoor cold front moving from the northeast toward the southwest caused numerous thunderstorms and heavy rain showers to suddenly erupt as it moved across northern portions of Upstate South Carolina during the evening.

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Flash Flood$10K damage

Jasper, SC · May 29, 2016

Bonnie first developed as a Tropical Depression in the western Atlantic just north of the Bahamas on May 27th. The system then tracked in a general northwestward direction and strengthened into a Tropical Storm.

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Flash Flood$10K damage

Richland, SC · Aug 1, 2016

A strong short wave trough passed through the region, which was entrenched in a moist, warm and moderately unstable airmass. The short wave picked up convective development along a lee-side/thermal trough in the Upstate and Northern Midlands.

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Flash Flood$10K damage

Richland, SC · Aug 1, 2016

A strong short wave trough passed through the region, which was entrenched in a moist, warm and moderately unstable airmass. The short wave picked up convective development along a lee-side/thermal trough in the Upstate and Northern Midlands.

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Tropical Storm$10K damage

Marlboro, SC · Sep 2, 2016

Hurricane Hermine made landfall as a minimal category 1 hurricane near the Florida Panhandle the night of September 1st. The hurricane weakened to a tropical storm as it moved up the eastern seaboard.

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Flood$25K damage

York, SC · Jun 10, 2019

Runoff from an extreme rainfall event over the North Carolina foothills from June 7th through the 9th worked its way down the Catawba River system, reaching the South Carolina Piedmont during the morning of the 10th.

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Flash Flood$20K damage

Georgetown, SC · Oct 4, 2015

A deep amplitude east coast upper trough closed off across the southeast states for several days while a surface front meandered across the area. Deep moisture from the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean continued to feed into the area.

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Flash Flood$15K damage

Georgetown, SC · Oct 4, 2015

A deep amplitude east coast upper trough closed off across the southeast states for several days while a surface front meandered across the area. Deep moisture from the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean continued to feed into the area.

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Flash Flood$15K damage

Williamsburg, SC · Oct 3, 2015

A deep amplitude east coast upper trough closed off across the southeast states for several days while a surface front meandered across the area. Deep moisture from the Gulf of Mexico and Atlantic Ocean continued to feed into the area.

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Tropical Storm

Marlboro, SC · Sep 2, 2016

Hurricane Hermine made landfall as a minimal category 1 hurricane near the Florida Panhandle the night of September 1st. The hurricane weakened to a tropical storm as it moved up the eastern seaboard.

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