Social media shows Sunday storm aftermath in Myrtle Beach: Flooded Ocean Lakes, fallen trees
Posts on Facebook, TikTok and X (formerly Twitter) showed coastal flooding, strong winds and heavy rains as a storm rolled through the Myrtle Beach area on Sunday.
Parts of the Myrtle Beach area received up to 8 inches of rain in the last 24 hours, according to estimates from the National Weather Service in Wilmington. Winds gusted up to 56 mph at the Springmaid Pier.
The National Weather Service in Wilmington confirmed that a tornado touched down Sunday afternoon east of Carolina Forest. Horry County Fire Rescue received calls of cars stuck in the water.
Here are images and videos of the storm from North Myrtle Beach to Pawleys Island.
Roads in Ocean Lakes Family Campground were covered in standing water and the playground was flooded, in a video by marleysroselife on TikTok.
TikTok user theeiphoneguru recorded the storm’s aftermath on Sunday, including downed trees and stuck cars.
Ocean water reached the beach access in a video by mypeaceofbeach on TikTok.
Debris floated through an inundated Family Kingdom Amusement Park in a video by Andrew Elswick on X (formerly Twitter).
Water reached the bottom of cars and trucks in the Coastal Grande Mall parking lot in a video on TikTok from user beachmomschelley1980.
Strong winds pushed around trees outside of the Highway 501 Tanger Outlets in a video from bookala0918 on TikTok.
A photo from Pawleys Island Police Department on X showed a waterlogged Pawleys Island chapel, alongside flooding on Myrtle Avenue.
Some roads in North Myrtle Beach were flooded as Public Works employees blocked streets with cones, according to the City of North Myrtle Beach on Facebook.
This story was originally published December 17, 2023 at 4:14 PM.
