A 30-foot camper trailer was tossed 150 feet into a vacant mobile home, destroying both.
This is the earliest date Florence, SC has reached triple digit temperature on record. These temperatures were around 15 degrees above normal for late May. Elsewhere, mid to upper 90s were reported across our forecast area.
Severe wind gusts downed trees in Robeson and Bladen County as well. There was also siding and roof damage to a home in Myrtle Beach, SC. Half dollar to golf ball size hail fell in Socastee, SC, and quarter size hail was reported in Forestbrook, SC. Severe thunderstorms produced hail and damaging winds in our forecast area.Even downtown Myrtle Beach, SC experienced golf ball size hail with these storms. Elsewhere, baseball size hail was reported near Mullins, SC, and golf ball size hail fell in Quinby, SC. An F1 tornado in Florence, SC downed trees and damaged an industrial area, while another F1 tornado southwest of Darlington, SC injured one person. An F2 tornado in the Glendale community near Florence, SC damaged about 60 homes and uprooted/snapped many trees. Our office confirmed three tornadoes touched down in the Pee Dee region. This Mother’s Day severe weather event brought tornadoes, hail, and damaging winds to the Carolinas.5.14" of rain fell in North Myrtle Beach on May 10, the highest single day rainfall on record for month of May. The highest rainfall total from Ana was 6.60 inches in Oak Island, NC, with North Myrtle Beach, SC measuring 6.16 inches. Highest wind gusts on land reached 50 to 60 mph from Little River and Cherry Grove Beach eastward across the state line to Sunset Beach, Calabash, Ocean Isle Beach, to Oak Island. Ana was the second earliest landfalling tropical cyclone on record for the United States. Tropical Storm Ana made landfall near Myrtle Beach, SC around 6am on May 10, 2015.And, click here to read a paper about the storm written by an ILM NWS forecaster!.In total, our office received over 40 reports of at least quarter size hail during this severe event! Click here to view the storm reports! Golf ball size hail even made it to Carolina and Kure Beach in New Hanover County. In Columbus County, golf ball size hail covered the ground near Clarkton, NC. Baseball size hail covered the ground near Evergreen, SC. Dozens of cars were damaged by baseball size hail in the Woodcreek community near Conway, SC.
Softball size hail also broke a car window in Florence County near Hannah, SC. Softball size hail (4.5 inches in diameter) in Conway, SC damaged vehicles and homes near Highway 501. A warm front moving northward across the Carolinas combined with upper level support resulted in severe thunderstorms that produced damaging hail across our forecast area.In Wilmington, this was the second largest ice storm on record since 1947 with over half an inch of ice measured at the Wilmington International Airport. Ice accumulations measured as high as 1.5 inches in Kingstree, SC. A very damaging ice storm affected eastern North and South Carolina, producing devastating freezing rain along and east of I-95 all the way down to the coast.Click here to view snow totals from this event! Elsewhere, snowfall totals were generally in the 2-5’’ range. Even coastal towns like Southport, NC and Surf City, NC measured 5.0’’ of snow. Outland, SC received 7.0’’ of snow, Hemingway, SC reported 6.8’’ of snow, and Burgaw, NC received 6.0’’ of snow. The eastern Carolinas received several inches of snow from a winter storm that began today and continued into the early morning hours of Feb.Florence, SC dropped below freezing for the 18th consecutive day, matching the most consecutive days of below freezing temperatures on record at this site.An observer in Kingstree, SC recorded a low 0☏, and 2☏ was observed in Loris, SC. Lumberton, NC reached a cold 3☏ low temperature, its coldest February temperature on record.Just scroll down and click on a date to get started! We used data from many other sources as well including national storm databases, cooperative weather observers, CoCoRaHS rainfall totals, and local storm reports. To view daily temperature and precipitation records for our four climate sites, click here. We hope you enjoy learning about our local weather history! Wilmington, NC and Florence, SC have extensive climate records dating back to 18, respectively. Major hurricanes, memorable snowstorms, extreme heat, bitter cold, severe storms and tornadoes, even flooding – we really have seen it all! We created this calendar to document these memorable events in our forecast area and educate people about the extreme weather that has occurred here over the past 100+ years. Southeast North Carolina and northeast South Carolina have experienced a wide variety of weather phenomena.