CHARLESTON, S.C. (WCSC) – The National Weather Service canceled a severe thunderstorm watch for the Lowcountry Sunday afternoon after a line of storms moved offshore.
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The watch had originally been in effect for Charleston, Berkeley, Dorchester, Colleton, Williamsburg, Georgetown, Beaufort, Jasper, Hampton, Allendale, Dillon, Florence, Horry and Marion Counties until 5 p.m.
But forecasters dropped it shortly after 3 p.m. after the storms had passed the area.
Storms did cause a few thousand power outages across multiple counties.
Live 5 First Alert Meteorologist Dorien Minor snapped a photo of a large tree limb that fell onto a car in the Moncks Corner area.
The National Weather Service received reports of downed trees and tree limbs across multiple counties.
The system also prompted a handful of severe thunderstorm warnings for multiple counties earlier in the day.
The Storm Prediction Center said most of the Lowcountry sat at a two in a five-point storm threat scale, with five being the worst threat.
Some Lowcountry counties were under severe thunderstorm warnings late Saturday night. A watch for 16 South Carolina counties, including Orangeburg County, expired at midnight.
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