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Tornado Warnings in South Dakota, 1996

68 tornado warnings in 1996. 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 1996. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
68
Busiest month
May24 tornado warnings
Busiest day
August 6, 19969 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 16, 2:14 PM CDTTornado WarningABREdmunds, McPherson31 min
May 16, 8:47 PM CDTTornado WarningUNRButte, Harding58 min
May 16, 11:48 PM CDTTornado WarningABRCorson, Dewey32 min
May 17, 5:27 PM CDTTornado WarningABRCodington, Grant33 min
May 17, 5:42 PM CDTTornado WarningABRGrant, Roberts48 min
May 17, 5:42 PM CDTTornado WarningABRCodington48 min
May 17, 5:42 PM CDTTornado WarningABRMarshall48 min
May 18, 9:02 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDBrule33 min
May 18, 9:33 PM CDTTornado WarningABRCodington, Hamlin47 min
May 18, 10:41 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDBrookings34 min
May 30, 5:17 PM CDTTornado WarningUNRPennington28 min
May 30, 5:32 PM CDTTornado WarningUNRCuster48 min
May 30, 5:42 PM CDTTornado WarningUNRPennington33 min
May 30, 5:52 PM CDTTornado WarningUNRPennington38 min
May 30, 6:11 PM CDTTornado WarningUNRPerkins19 min
May 30, 6:21 PM CDTTornado WarningABRCorson44 min
May 30, 6:30 PM CDTTornado WarningUNRPennington30 min
May 31, 3:01 PM CDTTornado WarningUNRZiebach29 min
May 31, 3:02 PM CDTTornado WarningABRDewey43 min
May 31, 3:45 PM CDTTornado WarningABRDewey45 min
May 31, 5:08 PM CDTTornado WarningABRBrown, Edmunds, McPherson32 min
May 31, 5:40 PM CDTTornado WarningABRBrown45 min
May 31, 6:17 PM CDTTornado WarningABRMarshall63 min
May 31, 6:36 PM CDTTornado WarningABRBrown49 min
May 31, 7:23 PM CDTTornado WarningABRMarshall32 min
May 31, 7:38 PM CDTTornado WarningABRGrant, Roberts47 min
May 31, 9:36 PM CDTTornado WarningABRDeuel34 min
May 31, 9:52 PM CDTTornado WarningABRGrant33 min
Jun 11, 4:59 PM CDTTornado WarningUNRMeade, Pennington31 min
Jun 11, 9:13 PM CDTTornado WarningUNRFall River47 min
Jun 14, 6:41 PM CDTTornado WarningUNRMeade34 min
Jun 14, 7:16 PM CDTTornado WarningUNRMeade29 min
Jun 14, 7:45 PM CDTTornado WarningUNRMeade30 min
Jun 14, 11:56 PM CDTTornado WarningABRCorson, Dewey49 min
Jun 19, 3:38 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDBon Homme, Charles Mix32 min
Jun 19, 3:49 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDMoody46 min
Jun 19, 4:02 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDHutchinson33 min
Jul 17, 6:52 PM CDTTornado WarningABRBrown48 min
Jul 17, 7:24 PM CDTTornado WarningABRDay46 min
Jul 17, 7:54 PM CDTTornado WarningABRDay46 min
Jul 17, 8:40 PM CDTTornado WarningABRDay, Roberts50 min
Jul 17, 10:14 PM CDTTornado WarningABRClark, Codington31 min
Jul 17, 10:50 PM CDTTornado WarningABRCodington45 min
Jul 20, 5:47 PM CDTTornado WarningABRMcPherson48 min
Jul 20, 6:50 PM CDTTornado WarningABRHyde50 min
Jul 20, 7:06 PM CDTTornado WarningABRSully49 min
Jul 31, 3:11 PM CDTTornado WarningUNRCuster49 min
Aug 3, 8:56 PM CDTTornado WarningABRHughes34 min
Aug 4, 5:44 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDAurora36 min
Aug 6, 5:46 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDDavison34 min
Aug 6, 5:54 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDAurora21 min
Aug 6, 6:04 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDSanborn31 min
Aug 6, 6:15 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDLake, Miner35 min
Aug 6, 6:20 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDDavison35 min
Aug 6, 6:24 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDBon Homme31 min
Aug 6, 6:27 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDLake, McCook33 min
Aug 6, 6:36 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDMiner, Sanborn34 min
Aug 6, 6:50 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDLake35 min
Aug 6, 7:31 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDMinnehaha34 min
Aug 6, 7:47 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDBrookings33 min
Aug 6, 7:50 PM CDTTornado WarningABRDeuel50 min
Aug 6, 7:53 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDHutchinson32 min
Aug 9, 3:52 PM CDTTornado WarningUNRHarding63 min
Aug 9, 4:57 PM CDTTornado WarningUNRHarding63 min
Aug 9, 8:21 PM CDTTornado WarningUNRFall River69 min
Sep 1, 8:14 PM CDTTornado WarningABRBrown46 min
Oct 26, 2:09 PM CDTTornado WarningABRGrant36 min
Oct 26, 2:38 PM CDTTornado WarningABRRoberts32 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. August 6, 19969tornado warnings
  2. May 30, 19967tornado warnings
  3. May 31, 19967tornado warnings
  4. May 17, 19966tornado warnings
  5. July 18, 19965tornado warnings
  6. June 1, 19964tornado warnings
  7. August 7, 19964tornado warnings
  8. May 19, 19963tornado warnings
  9. June 15, 19963tornado warnings
  10. June 19, 19963tornado warnings
  11. July 20, 19962tornado warnings
  12. August 4, 19962tornado 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.