COLUMBIA, S.C. — Tropical Depression Debby is moving away from South Carolina after dumping several inches of rain on the state.
The storm was downgraded to a tropical depression late Thursday afternoon by the National Hurricane Center, after its maximum sustained winds dropped below 39 miles an hour.
Debby made landfall as a tropical storm in Bulls Bay, SC in Charleston County just before 2 a.m. Thursday. It had spent the previous two days slowly moving off the South Carolina coast. It then picked up forward speed before the center of circulation started moving into South Carolina.
While winds and some light rain could persist through Friday morning, all serious threats are now over.
While the storm didn't quite deliver as much rain as some computer model forecasts had projected, it still soaked much of the state. The highest reported total was 16.55 inches in Green Pond, a community in Colleton County. Beaufort and Summerville both got about a foot of rainfall.
In the Midlands, some areas received about 6 to 8 inches of rain. Those totals didn't much higher Thursday morning because some dry air moved into the state, weakening the bands of rain around the center of the storm, all but ending the flash flood threat for the state.
While there has been reported damage in parts of the state, there have been no reported deaths. Unfortunately the storm had led to seven total deaths in Georgia, Florida, and North Carolina.