Tropical Storm in Tidal Berkeley, South Carolina

Berkeley County Emergency Management reported numerous trees blown down across the county with some blocking roads and damaging power lines causing power outages.

Tropical Depression Nine developed in the eastern Caribbean in the morning of Friday, September 23rd. The system steadily strengthened as it tracked to the northeast and became Hurricane Ian in the morning of Monday, September 26th. After making landfall and moving across western Cuba, Ian emerged into the eastern Gulf of Mexico and strengthened into a major hurricane. Ian then made landfall along the southwest Florida coast on Wednesday, September 28th and tracked northeastward across the Florida peninsula. Ian moved into the far western Atlantic as a tropical storm, but quickly strengthened back to a hurricane. Ian then made landfall as a category 1 hurricane near Georgetown, SC at 2:05 pm on Friday, September 30th. Ian brought a myriad of impacts to southeast South Carolina including strong winds, intense rainfall, flash flooding, and some coastal flooding. The heaviest rainfall occurred across the Charleston Tri-County region, with 5-10 inches of rain measured from around Summerville, to North Charleston, to the West Ashley area, downtown Charleston, and James Island. Several instances of flash flooding occurred where the highest rainfall amounts occurred. While the strongest winds occurred along the immediate coastline, widespread tropical storm force wind gusts occurred well inland and produced scattered reports of trees down with some of those down on houses and vehicles.