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Tornado Warnings in South Dakota, 1987

37 tornado warnings in 1987. 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 1987. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
37
Busiest month
July23 tornado warnings
Busiest day
July 10, 19877 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
May 20, 7:46 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDBon Homme29 min
May 26, 7:57 PM CDTTornado WarningUNRHaakon33 min
May 26, 9:00 PM CDTTornado WarningABRDewey30 min
May 29, 2:50 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDTripp25 min
Jun 28, 3:09 PM CDTTornado WarningABRHand36 min
Jun 28, 4:51 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDHanson, Hutchinson24 min
Jul 6, 6:18 PM CDTTornado WarningABRHand27 min
Jul 6, 6:25 PM CDTTornado WarningABRBuffalo35 min
Jul 6, 6:30 PM CDTTornado WarningABRFaulk30 min
Jul 6, 6:35 PM CDTTornado WarningABRLyman25 min
Jul 6, 6:40 PM CDTTornado WarningABRHughes, Hyde10 min
Jul 6, 7:09 PM CDTTornado WarningABRBuffalo36 min
Jul 6, 7:12 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDBrule48 min
Jul 7, 1:01 AM CDTTornado WarningFSDUnion29 min
Jul 9, 6:05 PM CDTTornado WarningABRHyde, Sully40 min
Jul 9, 7:20 PM CDTTornado WarningABRBrown25 min
Jul 9, 8:13 PM CDTTornado WarningABRDay32 min
Jul 9, 9:39 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDHutchinson, Turner36 min
Jul 10, 4:05 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDMellette25 min
Jul 10, 4:28 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDMellette32 min
Jul 10, 5:06 PM CDTTornado WarningABRStanley39 min
Jul 10, 5:53 PM CDTTornado WarningABRSully37 min
Jul 11, 5:25 PM CDTTornado WarningABRHughes, Stanley, Sully35 min
Jul 19, 9:33 PM CDTTornado WarningABRCorson27 min
Jul 19, 10:25 PM CDTTornado WarningUNRPerkins35 min
Jul 19, 10:54 PM CDTTornado WarningABRCorson36 min
Jul 19, 11:13 PM CDTTornado WarningABRCorson32 min
Jul 19, 11:58 PM CDTTornado WarningABRCorson32 min
Jul 20, 12:37 AM CDTTornado WarningABRCorson38 min
Aug 1, 1:17 AM CDTTornado WarningABRBrown28 min
Aug 5, 4:41 PM CDTTornado WarningABRSully34 min
Aug 5, 7:01 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDBrule29 min
Aug 5, 7:09 PM CDTTornado WarningABRBuffalo, Lyman36 min
Aug 5, 7:30 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDBrule60 min
Aug 11, 11:43 PM CDTTornado WarningABRPotter32 min
Aug 15, 3:05 PM CDTTornado WarningABRBrown, Spink25 min
Aug 15, 3:34 PM CDTTornado WarningABRBrown, Spink26 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 10, 19877tornado warnings
  2. July 20, 19876tornado warnings
  3. July 6, 19875tornado warnings
  4. July 7, 19873tornado warnings
  5. August 6, 19873tornado warnings
  6. May 27, 19872tornado warnings
  7. June 28, 19872tornado warnings
  8. August 15, 19872tornado warnings
  9. May 21, 19871tornado warnings
  10. May 29, 19871tornado warnings
  11. July 9, 19871tornado warnings
  12. July 11, 19871tornado 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.