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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.

Tropical Storm

Dorchester, SC · Jun 7, 2013

Tropical Storm Andrea lifted northeast out of the Gulf of Mexico Thursday night and over southeast Georgia and southeast South Carolina into Friday.

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Tropical Storm

Northern Colleton, SC · Jun 7, 2013

Tropical Storm Andrea lifted northeast out of the Gulf of Mexico Thursday night and over southeast Georgia and southeast South Carolina into Friday.

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Coastal Flood

Charleston, SC · Sep 9, 2022

The combination of the lunar perigee and full moon produced some of the highest astronomical tides of the year along the southeast South Carolina coast.

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Coastal Flood

Charleston, SC · Sep 9, 2022

The combination of the lunar perigee and full moon produced some of the highest astronomical tides of the year along the southeast South Carolina coast.

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Coastal Flood

Southern Colleton, SC · Sep 9, 2022

The combination of the lunar perigee and full moon produced some of the highest astronomical tides of the year along the southeast South Carolina coast.

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Coastal Flood

Charleston, SC · Sep 9, 2022

The combination of the lunar perigee and full moon produced some of the highest astronomical tides of the year along the southeast South Carolina coast.

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Coastal Flood

Charleston, SC · Sep 9, 2022

The combination of the lunar perigee and full moon produced some of the highest astronomical tides of the year along the southeast South Carolina coast.

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Flash Flood

Anderson, SC · May 20, 2020

A very moist air mass interacting with a nearly stationary frontal zone resulted in a prolonged period of heavy rainfall from multiple waves of heavy rain showers and thunderstorms over upstate South Carolina.

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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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Flash Flood

Charleston, SC · Oct 24, 2008

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.

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Flood$20K damage

Cherokee, SC · Sep 7, 2004

General flooding became widespread across portions of the Upstate late in the evening, as numerous streams rose gradually to flood. A mobile home park near Gaffney required evacuation overnight.

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Tropical Storm

Charleston, SC · Jun 7, 2013

Tropical Storm Andrea lifted northeast out of the Gulf of Mexico Thursday night and over southeast Georgia and southeast South Carolina into Friday.

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Tropical Storm

Charleston, SC · Jun 7, 2013

Tropical Storm Andrea lifted northeast out of the Gulf of Mexico Thursday night and over southeast Georgia and southeast South Carolina into Friday.

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Tropical Storm

Charleston, SC · Jun 7, 2013

Tropical Storm Andrea lifted northeast out of the Gulf of Mexico Thursday night and over southeast Georgia and southeast South Carolina into Friday.

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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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Flash Flood

Richland, SC · Jun 16, 2022

Scattered thunderstorms developed near the mountains, and a lee side surface trough, to the north and then shifted south and organized into a Mesoscale Convective System (MCS) that produced strong damaging winds and some hail across the Midlands of SC, along with locally heavy…

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Flash Flood

Richland, SC · Jun 16, 2022

Scattered thunderstorms developed near the mountains, and a lee side surface trough, to the north and then shifted south and organized into a Mesoscale Convective System (MCS) that produced strong damaging winds and some hail across the Midlands of SC, along with locally heavy…

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Flash Flood

Richland, SC · Jun 16, 2022

Scattered thunderstorms developed near the mountains, and a lee side surface trough, to the north and then shifted south and organized into a Mesoscale Convective System (MCS) that produced strong damaging winds and some hail across the Midlands of SC, along with locally heavy…

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Flash Flood

Lexington, SC · Jun 16, 2022

Scattered thunderstorms developed near the mountains, and a lee side surface trough, to the north and then shifted south and organized into a Mesoscale Convective System (MCS) that produced strong damaging winds and some hail across the Midlands of SC, along with locally heavy…

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Flash Flood

Charleston, SC · Oct 24, 2008

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.

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Flash Flood

Greenville, SC · Oct 8, 2021

A slow moving area of upper level low pressure over the Mid-Mississippi Valley continued to pump semi-tropical moisture into the western Carolinas resulting in another round of locally heavy rainfall across Upstate South Carolina.

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Coastal Flood

Coastal Horry, SC · Sep 5, 2019

Hurricane Dorian strengthened to a Category 5 hurricane as it moved through the Bahamas, with devastating damage. It weakened as it moved up the eastern seaboard. The hurricane was a strong Category 1 as it passed just east of Bald Head Island.

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Coastal Flood

Coastal Georgetown, SC · Sep 5, 2019

Hurricane Dorian strengthened to a Category 5 hurricane as it moved through the Bahamas, with devastating damage. It weakened as it moved up the eastern seaboard. The hurricane was a strong Category 1 as it passed just east of Bald Head Island.

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Flash Flood

Horry, SC · Sep 5, 2019

Hurricane Dorian strengthened to a Category 5 hurricane as it moved through the Bahamas, with devastating damage. It weakened as it moved up the eastern seaboard. The hurricane was a strong Category 1 as it passed just east of Bald Head Island.

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