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Notable reports from yesterday’s storm

/ April 20, 2019 at 3:15 PM

Straight-line winds were the order of the day for the Charleston area from an intense squall line that moved through the Southeast yesterday.

Despite several tornado warnings, surveys from the Charleston forecast office have yielded all straight-line wind damage. (There have been at least three tornadoes confirmed by the Columbia office as of this writing, though.) In all, the Charleston weather forecast office has issued over 150 storm reports from yesterday’s event for its county warning area (which includes southeast Georgia). Here are some of the fairly notable ones:

For a full accounting of yesterday’s storm reports, keep an eye on the Iowa Mesonet Storm Report Viewer.


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