Severe Thunderstorms rock lower South Carolina

[Stormsfury]

A strong squall line rocked lower South Carolina tonight...damage reports still continue to roll in. I dodged a bullet with a convective hole. But I have received several reports of 60 to 70 mph winds and severe damage in several areas from Walterboro to Columbia tonight.

more details later.

SF

[Stormsfury]

The bow echo that blew through Colleton, Dorchester, and Berkeley Counties produced quite a bit of wind damage reports, but many of the areas is sparsely populated, hence, the few reports. A friend of Becky and myself got a call from his family to come home back to Cottageville with extensive damage being reported out there ...

Elsewhere,

7 miles south of West Columbia, a roof was torn off a house in Pine Ridge Subdivision @ 7:20 pm ...

15 minutes later, WLTX in Columbia, SC reported a 60 mph wind gust at their studio in SE Columbia. Tree branches down and power out.

Anderson and Anderson County in South Carolina had two rounds of severe weather .. one early this afternoon, with a possible tornado in the area, and again around 6:00 pm, also with a possible tornado touchdown ...

http://iwin.nws.noaa.gov/iwin/sc/public.html

A very unusual and active pattern for South Carolina in late June (especially considering storm movement to the NE at 30-40 mph, and s/w's embedded within a 40-50 kt core of winds at the 500mb level)...

SF

[Stormsfury]

Also unusual, is that this is the 3rd night in a row that developing clusters of thunderstorms consolidated into a squall line in Southern GA and moved NE into Southern South Carolina before tapering down around 9:30 pm ... so far, the first night, the weakening storms thru here still produced a strong gust front with a peak gust of 48 mph, and snapped a small 15 ft. tall tree.

Again, tonight, this area definitely dodged a bullet ...

SF

[Dan]

http://www.erh.noaa.gov/radar/loop/DS.p ... kgsp.shtml

http://www.erh.noaa.gov/radar/latest/DS ... kgsp.shtml

today has been a very active day for those in the Upstate. There were multiple tornado warnings throughout the afternoon including the Spartanburg area and in Anderson County SC. There were some funnel cloud sightnings but no touchdown. A strong area of rotation at 7,000 ft today caused most of the stronger storms in Upper SC to rotate. If there would have more sunshine to make the atmosphere a bit more unstable, we could had seen a significant Tornado outbreak today in South Carolina.

Also, there has been some really heavy rains over the upper parts of South Carolina. The link above is doppler estimates, those estimates go back to Tuesday so you can tell it has been a really wet week for those along I-85, infact the last two weeks have been wet.

[Dan]

PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREENVILLE-SPARTANBURG SC
448 PM EDT SAT JUN 26 2004

...ANDERSON COUNTY STORM SURVEY RESULTS...

EARLIER TODAY...THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SURVEYED WIND DAMAGE
WITHIN THE DEER RUN SUBDIVISION AND AREAS JUST NORTHEAST ALONG
HIGHWAY 187. THE WIND DAMAGE WAS THE RESULT OF A THUNDERSTORM WHICH
MOVED ACROSS SHORTLY AFTER 9 PM LAST NIGHT.

SOME TREE AND ROOF DAMAGE...ALONG WITH DAMAGE TO A POOL WAS OBSERVED
IN THE DEER RUN SUBDIVISION. IN ADDITION...THERE WERE SEVERAL
SNAPPED AND UPROOTED TREES JUST NORTHEAST OF PENINSULA DRIVE AND ACROSS
A PORTION OF ROUTE 187.

ARCHIVED RADAR DATA AND OBSERVATIONS AT THE SURVEY SITE INDICATE THAT
THE DAMAGE WAS THE RESULT OF ROTARY WINDS OF NEARLY 70 MPH.
THEREFORE...A BRIEF TORNADO TOUCHDOWN OF F0 INTENSITY WILL BE RULED
AS THE CAUSE OF THIS DAMAGE.
$$

CSH