Rip Current in Coastal Horry, South Carolina

Rip Current June 19, 2020 – June 20, 2020 · Coastal Horry, South Carolina

Deaths

What the National Weather Service wrote

There were two consecutive days of strong rip currents. On the 19th, there was a rip related death at 7th Ave N in Myrtle Beach. A father and son were caught in a rip current and the mother managed to save the son but could not rescue the father. The next day there were two rip related deaths, a 53 yr old male at 16th Ave N, and a 71 yr old male at the Holly Beach Access.

The wider storm

Strong rip currents cost the lives of three people.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 903730. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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