Heavy Rain in Charleston County, South Carolina

Heavy Rain August 13, 2010 · Charleston County, South Carolina

Death

$10K

Damage as recorded

Where the report was made, with tornadoes recorded within 15 miles over the years.

What the National Weather Service wrote

Local media reported a 73 year old woman drowned after she drove off a parking lot into a retention pond. Witnesses say she could not see the sharp drop-off from the parking lot to the retention pond due to heavy rain at the time. The woman was transported to Roper Hospital where she was pronounced dead due to drowning.

The wider storm

A hot and humid air mass created surface based CAPE values near 4500 J/kg and lifted indices near -8 during peak heating hours. Thunderstorms initiated during the evening hours as a stationary front just to the north of the county warning area interacted with a sea breeze. Numerous outflow boundaries from initial thunderstorm activity produced additional thunderstorms through the early overnight hours. Some thunderstorms produced damaging winds and heavy rainfall.

Began near Deer Park (32.9502, -80.0401).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 252466. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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