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Tornado Warnings in South Dakota, 1986

42 tornado warnings in 1986. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of tornado warnings reaches back to 1986.

Tornado Warnings by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 1986. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
42
Busiest month
July22 tornado warnings
Busiest day
July 30, 19865 tornado warnings

Over time

By month

The alerts

Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Central Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 3, 10:18 PM CSTTornado WarningABRBeadle, Hand12 min
Apr 26, 5:27 PM CSTTornado WarningFSDTurner33 min
Apr 26, 5:41 PM CSTTornado WarningFSDLincoln34 min
May 8, 4:30 PM CDTTornado WarningABRHughes, Lyman, Stanley30 min
May 11, 7:17 PM CDTTornado WarningABRCorson28 min
Jun 6, 7:12 PM CDTTornado WarningABREdmunds33 min
Jun 6, 7:21 PM CDTTornado WarningABREdmunds39 min
Jun 6, 8:12 PM CDTTornado WarningABRDewey33 min
Jun 10, 2:20 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDDouglas25 min
Jun 10, 6:10 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDClay35 min
Jun 19, 11:41 PM CDTTornado WarningABREdmunds34 min
Jun 21, 7:37 PM CDTTornado WarningABRMiner38 min
Jun 29, 4:06 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDHutchinson, Turner, Yankton39 min
Jun 29, 4:49 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDClay, Turner, Yankton56 min
Jun 29, 5:37 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDLincoln, Turner38 min
Jul 17, 5:53 PM CDTTornado WarningABRBrown37 min
Jul 17, 6:20 PM CDTTornado WarningABRBrown25 min
Jul 18, 5:01 PM CDTTornado WarningABRDeuel29 min
Jul 18, 5:40 PM CDTTornado WarningABRDewey35 min
Jul 18, 5:40 PM CDTTornado WarningUNRZiebach35 min
Jul 18, 8:12 PM CDTTornado WarningABRBrown33 min
Jul 25, 3:34 PM CDTTornado WarningABRWalworth26 min
Jul 25, 4:05 PM CDTTornado WarningABRWalworth25 min
Jul 26, 12:22 AM CDTTornado WarningABRKingsbury, Miner38 min
Jul 26, 12:25 AM CDTTornado WarningFSDLake35 min
Jul 26, 7:34 PM CDTTornado WarningABRWalworth26 min
Jul 27, 1:05 PM CDTTornado WarningABRDeuel25 min
Jul 28, 4:48 PM CDTTornado WarningABRBuffalo27 min
Jul 28, 6:10 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDDouglas, Hutchinson35 min
Jul 28, 6:41 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDUnion34 min
Jul 28, 6:52 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDBon Homme, Hutchinson, Yankton38 min
Jul 28, 7:25 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDYankton35 min
Jul 29, 10:30 PM CDTTornado WarningABRClark30 min
Jul 29, 10:52 PM CDTTornado WarningABRCodington38 min
Jul 29, 11:21 PM CDTTornado WarningABRCodington39 min
Jul 29, 11:58 PM CDTTornado WarningABRCodington, Deuel, Hamlin32 min
Jul 30, 12:28 AM CDTTornado WarningABRDeuel, Grant32 min
Aug 6, 5:15 PM CDTTornado WarningABRWalworth30 min
Aug 16, 9:10 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDAurora, Brule35 min
Sep 24, 6:05 PM CDTTornado WarningUNRButte30 min
Sep 24, 10:22 PM CDTTornado WarningABRDewey37 min
Oct 1, 5:38 PM CDTTornado WarningABRJerauld22 min

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. July 30, 19865tornado warnings
  2. July 28, 19864tornado warnings
  3. June 7, 19863tornado warnings
  4. June 29, 19863tornado warnings
  5. July 18, 19863tornado warnings
  6. April 26, 19862tornado warnings
  7. June 10, 19862tornado warnings
  8. July 17, 19862tornado warnings
  9. July 25, 19862tornado warnings
  10. July 26, 19862tornado warnings
  11. July 27, 19862tornado warnings
  12. April 4, 19861tornado warnings

Nearby

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Sources

National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.