Thunderstorm Wind — Horry, South Carolina

2014-07-28 · near Lundy Xrds, Horry, South Carolina

Event narrative

A team from the National Weather Service conducted a survey and determined a microburst with winds up to 75 mph began between Juniper Bay Road and 4 Mile Road. Damage in this area included scattered tree damage. A nearby trailer park along Sleepy Hollow Lane suffered primarily minor damage to a couple of structures. A tree in the mobile park was uprooted and fell onto a mobile home. There were several large trees uprooted in this area. As the microburst moved to the southeast it caused significant damage. A poorly secured metal roof of a mobile home on Singing Pines Drive was completely lifted from the home. Several large hardwoods were uprooted along Singing Pines Drive and nearby Old Railroad Road. Power lines were also reported down. The microburst weakened, but severe winds still uprooted several trees and downed large limbs along Wayside Road, Juniper Bay Road and Dunn Short Cut Road. The ground was very saturated and almost all of the uprooted trees were hardwoods. The maximum path width was 1.8 miles and the path length was 2.35 miles. Six people were sent to the hospital with minor injuries and quickly released.

Wider weather episode

An unseasonably strong cold front combined with a strongly unstable air mass to produce a large number of large hail reports. There were also several wind damage reports with the worst of the damage around Conway, South Carolina. The severe weather was largely clustered in Horry County, South Carolina.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 537303. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.