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October 15, 1954 – Hurricane Hazel made landfall near the North Carolina and South Carolina border as a Category 4 hurricane with sustained winds of 130 mph (215 km/h), causing major damage. Tides of 10–11 ft (3.0–3.4 m) were reported along the coastline, destroying hundreds of buildings.
Roger Bilham and Susan Hough studied historical mapping projects published between 1884 and 1919 and discovered a 1 m (3 ft 3 in) uplift at Summerville along the South Carolina Railroad. Photographic evidence of the South Carolina Railroad southeast of Summerville also showed a right-lateral offset of 4.5 ± 0.3 m (14.76 ± 0.98 ft) on the track.
Summerville is a town in the U.S. state of South Carolina situated mostly in Dorchester County, with small portions in Berkeley and Charleston counties. Summerville is seventh biggest city in the state. The town lies approximately five miles from the Ashley River. It is part of the Charleston-North Charleston-Summerville, SC Metropolitan ...
At least 41 people have died across South Carolina after Hurricane Helene — one of the largest ... Helene already ranks in the top 10 deadliest storms in mainland United States history ...
The deadliest hurricane in South Carolina history. The late 1800s go down as one of the worst periods of back-to-back killer storms in recorded American history. For example, the “Georgia/South ...
0–9. 1804 Antigua–Charleston hurricane; 1804 New England hurricane; 1806 Great Coastal hurricane; 1815 North Carolina hurricane; 1827 North Carolina hurricane
Not a single hurricane reached South Carolina or North Carolina at full strength in 2021, and only one, extremely weak tropical storm has reached the Carolinas so far in 2022.
The 1935 Labor Day hurricane was the most intense hurricane to make landfall on the country, having struck the Florida Keys with a pressure of 892 mbar.It was one of only seven hurricanes to move ashore as a Category 5 hurricane on the Saffir–Simpson hurricane scale; the others were "Okeechobee" in 1928, Karen in 1962, Camille in 1969, Andrew in 1992, Michael in 2018, and Yutu in 2018, which ...