Campus Alert Archive

Institution

University of South Carolina

USCSCPublic R1Carolina Alert

Cases: 10
Alerts: 25
Verbatim: 44%
Span: 2013–2026

Official alert policy

How USC says it will alert — when and how Carolina Alert activates, summarized, quoted, and analyzed.

Case log

Every documented incident

10 cases · 11 of 25 alert messages verbatim-confirmed

2026

tornado: 2026-03-12NWS Tornado Warning Covers Columbia Campus on the Same Morning as the ODU Shooting; Carolina Alert Activatesemergency notificationverbatim
tornado: 2026-03-12Three Alerts in 30 Minutes: How Carolina Alert Escalated from Thunderstorm to Tornado to All-Clearemergency notificationverbatim

2025

swatting: 2025-08-24Simulated Gunfire on the Line: Carolina Alert Sends Full Active Shooter Message After 911 Caller Fakes Background Shotsemergency notificationverbatim

2024

2019

missing person: 2019-03-29'Last Seen at 715 Harden St. b/w 1:30 & 2:00': The Missing-Person Alert That Turned Into a Murder Investigationmissing student1 killedverbatim

2018

hurricane: 2018-09-11Carolina Alert Closes USC Columbia at 1 PM as Hurricane Florence Bears Down — But Spares the Coast a Direct Hit, Sending Inland Floods Insteademergency notification

2017

hurricane: 2017-09-11A One-Day Closure and a 10 a.m. Reopen: Columbia's Measured Response to a Weakening Irmaemergency notification

2015

domestic violence: 2015-02-05Ten Minutes Behind a Locked Office Door: An Ex-Wife's Murder-Suicide of a USC Public Health Professoremergency notification1 killedverbatim

2013

hazmat: 2013-02-20Twice-Swept and Never Identified: A Chemical Scare at 300 Main Streetemergency notification

By incident type

What USC has alerted about

Weather · 5 domestic violence · 1 Hazmat / Gas · 1 Missing Person · 1 other · 1 Swatting · 1

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