1,179 first-hand accounts of flood events in South Carolina, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
Widespread heavy rain affected the region ahead of a slow moving cold front. Rainfall amounts of 2.5 to 4 inches were common across Upstate South Carolina. Quite a bit of flash flooding developed as a result of the heavy rain falling on already saturated ground.
Read the full account →A weak surface trough developed through the day, triggering scattered thunderstorm. Due to weak bulk shear and mixed layer CAPE over 3000 J/kg, just an isolated storm was able to reach severe limits and produce heavy rainfall during the day.
Read the full account →Up to 8 inches of rain began falling during the late afternoon from coastal thunderstorms. Standing water 4 feet deep in the Woodlake Village and Jamestown communities of Surfside Beach forced a boat rescue from a house.
Read the full account →Widespread pulse thunderstorms produced locally heavy rain across the Midlands, including isolated flash flooding in the Columbia metro in the evening of September 20th.
Read the full account →After an extended period of moderate to heavy rainfall, a tropical rain band produced intense rainfall rates that led to rapid rises along some creeks and small streams across portions of the Upstate during the mid-to-late evening.
Read the full account →A strong area of low pressure over the northern Gulf of Mexico along with a warm front off the South Carolina coast created strong gradient winds and uplift within a moist environment that led to heavy convective rainfall.
Read the full account →Thunderstorms developed in a highly unstable environment along a lingering boundary from a MCS that moved through the night before. Weak flow led to slow moving storms, propagating slowly along an outflow boundary.
Read the full account →Thunderstorms developed in a highly unstable environment along a lingering boundary from a MCS that moved through the night before. Weak flow led to slow moving storms, propagating slowly along an outflow boundary.
Read the full account →Thunderstorms developed in a highly unstable environment along a lingering boundary from a MCS that moved through the night before. Weak flow led to slow moving storms, propagating slowly along an outflow boundary.
Read the full account →Thunderstorms developed in a highly unstable environment along a lingering boundary from a MCS that moved through the night before. Weak flow led to slow moving storms, propagating slowly along an outflow boundary.
Read the full account →Thunderstorms developed in a highly unstable environment along a lingering boundary from a MCS that moved through the night before. Weak flow led to slow moving storms, propagating slowly along an outflow boundary.
Read the full account →The highly favorable flash flooding environment continued for another day on 7-25 with high precipitable water over 2.25 inches, parallel deep layer shear to the low level moisture convergence boundary, and moderate instability aloft.
Read the full account →The highly favorable flash flooding environment continued for another day on 7-25 with high precipitable water over 2.25 inches, parallel deep layer shear to the low level moisture convergence boundary, and moderate instability aloft.
Read the full account →Widely scattered severe thunderstorms developed over portions of the Midlands and produced some wind damage, mainly taking down trees and some powerlines.
Read the full account →Heavy rains from training thunderstorms produced copious amounts of rain generally along and north of I-20 in Aiken and Edgefields. Heavy rains also caused flash flooding in North Augusta causing evacuations of two apartment complexes.
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 →Slow moving thunderstorms developed across central SC during the afternoon and evening hours of May 29th. High instability and deep moisture helped produce a environment favorable for damaging winds, hail, and flash flooding.
Read the full account →The combination of the a very unstable atmosphere, the presence of a weak surface trough and the passing of a Mesoscale Convective Vortex (MCV) produced numerous showers and thunderstorms.
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 →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 →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 →The combination of favorable winds and increased astronomical factors produced major coastal flooding along portions of the southeast South Carolina coast with the evening high tide cycle.
Read the full account →The combination of favorable winds and increased astronomical factors produced major coastal flooding along portions of the southeast South Carolina coast with the evening high tide cycle.
Read the full account →The combination of favorable winds and increased astronomical factors produced major coastal flooding along portions of the southeast South Carolina coast with the evening high tide cycle.
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