Charleston’s intense heat on Friday nearly reached the record high when the temperature maxed out at 98 degrees just before a damaging string of thunderstorms rolled through the area.
The historical high for June 17 is 101 degrees, set in 1981.
The storms left behind downed trees and powerlines. The National Weather Service could not verfiy how many.
The heat index reached 110 degrees on Friday. But in an unusual twist, the thunderstorms that came through the area dropped the index more than 20 degrees in a very short time span, said Doug Berry, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service.
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