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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

Aiken, SC · Jun 3, 2013

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.

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Flood

Aiken, SC · Jun 2, 2013

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.

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Flood

Aiken, SC · Jun 2, 2013

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.

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Flood

Aiken, SC · Jun 2, 2013

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.

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Flood

Edgefield, SC · Jun 3, 2013

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.

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Flash Flood

Lancaster, SC · May 27, 2020

Tropical Storm Bertha quickly developed over the Atlantic waters just offshore the SC coast on the morning of May 27, 2020. It made landfall on the SC coast east of Charleston that morning, then weakened to a Tropical Depression while moving to the NNW across the Eastern and…

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Flash Flood

Richland, SC · Sep 17, 2020

Hurricane Sally made landfall near Gulf Shores, AL, as a category 2 hurricane, in the early morning of Wednesday, September 16, 2020, and then weakened and turned to the NE, tracking across the Central Savannah River Area of Georgia, and across Central SC, as a post-tropical…

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Flash Flood

Sumter, SC · Sep 17, 2020

Hurricane Sally made landfall near Gulf Shores, AL, as a category 2 hurricane, in the early morning of Wednesday, September 16, 2020, and then weakened and turned to the NE, tracking across the Central Savannah River Area of Georgia, and across Central SC, as a post-tropical…

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Flash Flood

Sumter, SC · Sep 17, 2020

Hurricane Sally made landfall near Gulf Shores, AL, as a category 2 hurricane, in the early morning of Wednesday, September 16, 2020, and then weakened and turned to the NE, tracking across the Central Savannah River Area of Georgia, and across Central SC, as a post-tropical…

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Flash Flood

Aiken, SC · Sep 17, 2020

Hurricane Sally made landfall near Gulf Shores, AL, as a category 2 hurricane, in the early morning of Wednesday, September 16, 2020, and then weakened and turned to the NE, tracking across the Central Savannah River Area of Georgia, and across Central SC, as a post-tropical…

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Flash Flood

Sumter, SC · Sep 17, 2020

Hurricane Sally made landfall near Gulf Shores, AL, as a category 2 hurricane, in the early morning of Wednesday, September 16, 2020, and then weakened and turned to the NE, tracking across the Central Savannah River Area of Georgia, and across Central SC, as a post-tropical…

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Flash Flood

Aiken, SC · Sep 17, 2020

Hurricane Sally made landfall near Gulf Shores, AL, as a category 2 hurricane, in the early morning of Wednesday, September 16, 2020, and then weakened and turned to the NE, tracking across the Central Savannah River Area of Georgia, and across Central SC, as a post-tropical…

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Flash Flood

Orangeburg, SC · Sep 17, 2020

Hurricane Sally made landfall near Gulf Shores, AL, as a category 2 hurricane, in the early morning of Wednesday, September 16, 2020, and then weakened and turned to the NE, tracking across the Central Savannah River Area of Georgia, and across Central SC, as a post-tropical…

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Flash Flood

Orangeburg, SC · Sep 17, 2020

Hurricane Sally made landfall near Gulf Shores, AL, as a category 2 hurricane, in the early morning of Wednesday, September 16, 2020, and then weakened and turned to the NE, tracking across the Central Savannah River Area of Georgia, and across Central SC, as a post-tropical…

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Flash Flood

Orangeburg, SC · Sep 17, 2020

Hurricane Sally made landfall near Gulf Shores, AL, as a category 2 hurricane, in the early morning of Wednesday, September 16, 2020, and then weakened and turned to the NE, tracking across the Central Savannah River Area of Georgia, and across Central SC, as a post-tropical…

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Flash Flood

Lexington, SC · Sep 17, 2020

Hurricane Sally made landfall near Gulf Shores, AL, as a category 2 hurricane, in the early morning of Wednesday, September 16, 2020, and then weakened and turned to the NE, tracking across the Central Savannah River Area of Georgia, and across Central SC, as a post-tropical…

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Flood

York, SC · Feb 6, 2020

Unusually high levels of moisture for early February combined with a slow-moving frontal system to produce an extended period of moderate to heavy rainfall across Upstate South Carolina from the morning of the 5th until the early morning hours of the 7th.

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Flood

Lancaster, SC · May 27, 2020

Tropical Storm Bertha quickly developed over the Atlantic waters just offshore the SC coast on the morning of May 27, 2020. It made landfall on the SC coast east of Charleston that morning, then weakened to a Tropical Depression while moving to the NNW across the Eastern and…

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Flood

Lancaster, SC · May 27, 2020

Tropical Storm Bertha quickly developed over the Atlantic waters just offshore the SC coast on the morning of May 27, 2020. It made landfall on the SC coast east of Charleston that morning, then weakened to a Tropical Depression while moving to the NNW across the Eastern and…

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Flood

Lancaster, SC · May 27, 2020

Tropical Storm Bertha quickly developed over the Atlantic waters just offshore the SC coast on the morning of May 27, 2020. It made landfall on the SC coast east of Charleston that morning, then weakened to a Tropical Depression while moving to the NNW across the Eastern and…

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Flood

Lancaster, SC · May 27, 2020

Tropical Storm Bertha quickly developed over the Atlantic waters just offshore the SC coast on the morning of May 27, 2020. It made landfall on the SC coast east of Charleston that morning, then weakened to a Tropical Depression while moving to the NNW across the Eastern and…

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Storm Surge/Tide

Coastal Horry, SC · Aug 3, 2020

Hurricane Isaias came off the African coast as a tropical wave on July 23, 2020. It became Tropical Storm Isaias on July 30th, further strengthening to a hurricane on the 31st. After crossing the Bahamas, it weakened to a tropical storm.

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Tropical Depression

Inland Berkeley, SC · May 30, 2020

Tropical Storm Bertha rapidly developed near the southeast South Carolina coast and was officially classified as a Tropical Storm by the National Hurricane Center at 8:30 am EDT.

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Tropical Storm

Anderson, SC · Oct 29, 2020

Tropical Storm Zeta moved quickly from near the mouth of the Mississippi River to the southern Appalachians during the night of the 28th into the morning of the 29th.

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