1,179 first-hand accounts of flood events in South Carolina, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
Debby first developed into a tropical storm about 100 miles west-southwest of Key West, Florida late afternoon on August 3rd, then gradually strengthened to a strong tropical storm while tracking north across the eastern Gulf of Mexico on August 4th.
Read the full account →After making landfall in the Big Bend area of Florida as a Category 1 hurricane on August 5, Debby weakened to a tropical storm as it slowly moved across southeastern Georgia and offshore before making another landfall along the central SC coast between Charleston and…
Read the full account →After making landfall in the Big Bend area of Florida as a Category 1 hurricane on August 5, Debby weakened to a tropical storm as it slowly moved across southeastern Georgia and offshore before making another landfall along the central SC coast between Charleston and…
Read the full account →Slow moving thunderstorms produced very heavy rain over western Upstate South Carolina, triggering areas of flash flooding. One fatality resulted from a car being swept into a flooded stream.
Read the full account →Slow moving thunderstorms produced very heavy rain over western Upstate South Carolina, triggering areas of flash flooding. One fatality resulted from a car being swept into a flooded stream.
Read the full account →A cluster of heavy rainfall producing thunderstorms anchored over much of Charleston County in the afternoon hours. These thunderstorms were nearly stationary as they developed just north of a stalled front extending out from a weak area of low pressure over south Georgia.
Read the full account →Hurricane Matthew impacted the region on the night of Friday, October 7th and during much of the day on Saturday, October 8th. Tropical Storm force wind gusts were observed across most of the SC Midlands and Central Savannah River Area.
Read the full account →Hurricane Matthew impacted the region on the night of Friday, October 7th and during much of the day on Saturday, October 8th. Tropical Storm force wind gusts were observed across most of the SC Midlands and Central Savannah River Area.
Read the full account →Hurricane Matthew impacted the region on the night of Friday, October 7th and during much of the day on Saturday, October 8th. Tropical Storm force wind gusts were observed across most of the SC Midlands and Central Savannah River Area.
Read the full account →Tropical Storm Hermine impacted the region, especially on the 2nd with heavy rain and strong gusty winds. The center of TS Hermine tracked to the NE across S and SE GA during the morning of Sept. 2nd, and across the coastal plain of SC during the afternoon and evening of the 2nd.
Read the full account →A small area of heavy rain developed across the Upstate during the pre-dawn hours and remained nearly stationary for several hours. By late morning, 4-7 inches had fallen along a narrow axis from eastern Anderson County through southern and central Greenville County.
Read the full account →Hermine developed as a Tropical Depression near the north coast of Cuba on August 28th. The depression then tracked westward into the central Gulf of Mexico and strengthened into a Tropical Storm. Hermine then tracked generally northeastward and strengthened into a Hurricane.
Read the full account →A small area of heavy rain (trained) across portions of Charleston and southern Berkeley Counties produced local rainfall up to seven and three-quarter inches within a few hours.
Read the full account →The remnants Tropical Storm Debby made landfall in the Florida Big Bend on the 5th, lifted steadily northeast across southeast Georgia before turning north through the South Carolina coastal plain and the North Carolina Piedmont on the 7th and 8th.
Read the full account →After a couple of days of occasional moderate to heavy rain acted to elevate stream flows and soil moisture levels, heavy rain showers and thunderstorms developing along and ahead of a cold front produced 2-3 inches of rain in just a few hours across portions of the Piedmont,…
Read the full account →Intense rainfall rates associated with the remnants of Hurricane Jeanne resulted in rapid rises and flash flooding along some small creeks and streams across the southern part of the Upstate.
Read the full account →A stalled boundary across central South Carolina, combined with extremely high precipitable water values lead to a series of training thunderstorms and flash flooding.
Read the full account →A stalled boundary across central South Carolina, combined with extremely high precipitable water values lead to a series of training thunderstorms and flash flooding.
Read the full account →Multi-cell severe thunderstorms developed through the evening and spread progressively from the northwest to the southwest across Upstate South Carolina. Damaging winds blew down trees and power lines in all locations listed above.
Read the full account →Scattered, slow-moving thunderstorms developed across the South Carolina foothills in the late afternoon and evening in the vicinity of a nearly stationary front.
Read the full account →Beryl developed as a Subtropical Storm over the Atlantic Ocean well east of the South Coastal South Carolina area. The cyclone eventually became a Tropical Storm and slowly moved to the southwest and finally made landfall along the northeast Florida coast.
Read the full account →After an extended period of moderate to occasionally heavy rainfall, intensifying rain rates led to rapid rises and flash flooding along some small creeks and streams in eastern portions of the Upstate.
Read the full account →A low pressure system developed over the Gulf of Mexico and tracked northeast across the Florida Peninsula in the early morning hours of December 17th, then strengthened across warm Atlantic waters while passing along the Southeast Coast, bringing impacts in the form of major…
Read the full account →A low pressure system developed over the Gulf of Mexico and tracked northeast across the Florida Peninsula in the early morning hours of December 17th, then strengthened across warm Atlantic waters while passing along the Southeast Coast, bringing impacts in the form of major…
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