Flood Warning Issued for Berkeley, Charleston, Dorchester Counties SC
If you are in immediate danger, call emergency services now.
For real-time, official alerts and instructions for your exact location, check weather.gov (US), weather.gc.ca (Canada), the Met Office (UK), or the Bureau of Meteorology (Australia) as applicable. This article is a data summary, not a substitute for the issuing agency's live warning.
Areazine synthesizes this NWS weather alert directly from NOAA's official public data feed. See our methodology for full source attribution and refresh cadence.
A Flood Warning is in effect until 3 AM EDT Sunday for Berkeley, Charleston, and Dorchester counties in southeastern South Carolina due to excessive rainfall.
Read this weather record in 30 seconds
- Record type
- Flood Warning
- Affected area
- Southeastern South Carolina
- Issued
- August 23, 2026
- Issuing authority
- NWS Charleston SC
Flood notices turn on location and timing. Treat the named area as this record's scope; do not assume nearby counties, parishes, or waterways were included.
Record status: publication date is recent, but current status is not stored on this page. Check the issuing agency's live warning service before acting because warnings can be updated, narrowed, or cancelled.
Alert Details
Flood Warning issued by NWS Charleston SC. Effective from August 22 at 10:15 PM EDT until August 23 at 3:00 AM EDT.
Affected Areas
Berkeley County, Charleston County, and Dorchester County in southeastern South Carolina. Specific locations include North Charleston, Summerville, Goose Creek, Hanahan, I-26/I-526 Interchange, Naval Weapons Station Charleston, Ladson, Daniel Island, Charleston Airport, and Magnolia Gardens. Highways affected include I-26 between mile markers 206 and 214 and I-526 between mile markers 18 and 21.
What You Should Do
Be especially cautious at night when it is harder to recognize the dangers of flooding. Avoid flooded areas.
Expected Conditions
Flooding caused by excessive rainfall is expected. Several structures are flooded with ongoing sand bagging operations. At 10:02 PM EDT, emergency officials reported flooding ongoing across portions of the North Charleston area, with some homes and buildings remaining flooded near New Ryder Road.
Timeline
The warning is effective from 10:15 PM EDT on August 22 until 3:00 AM EDT on August 23. It will take several hours for flood waters to recede through local drainage systems.
Original source: NOAA Official Notice ↗
Related Weather Alerts
All Weather Alerts →Nationwide notices with similar length or severity timing 8
Two Areazine-derived peer sets for this NWS weather alert: nearest notices by body length and by same severity near the same agency date. Peers come from other categories so they are not the same-feed Related list above.
Similar body length
Nearest notices by article body length (1,191 characters here).
Similar severity timing
Same severity (high) notices issued closest in time to August 23, 2026.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about this NWS weather alert.