Alert archive / South Dakota / Tornado Warnings / 1996

Tornado Warnings in South Dakota, May 1996

24 tornado warnings in May 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 May 1996. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings: 24
Busiest day: May 30, 19967 tornado warnings

Over time

By day

Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.

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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
May 16, 2:14 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ABR	Edmunds, McPherson	31 min
May 16, 8:47 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	UNR	Butte, Harding	58 min
May 16, 11:48 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ABR	Corson, Dewey	32 min
May 17, 5:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ABR	Codington, Grant	33 min
May 17, 5:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ABR	Grant, Roberts	48 min
May 17, 5:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ABR	Codington	48 min
May 17, 5:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ABR	Marshall	48 min
May 18, 9:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Brule	33 min
May 18, 9:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ABR	Codington, Hamlin	47 min
May 18, 10:41 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Brookings	34 min
May 30, 5:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	UNR	Pennington	28 min
May 30, 5:32 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	UNR	Custer	48 min
May 30, 5:42 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	UNR	Pennington	33 min
May 30, 5:52 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	UNR	Pennington	38 min
May 30, 6:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	UNR	Perkins	19 min
May 30, 6:21 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ABR	Corson	44 min
May 30, 6:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	UNR	Pennington	30 min
May 31, 3:01 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	UNR	Ziebach	29 min
May 31, 3:02 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ABR	Dewey	43 min
May 31, 3:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ABR	Dewey	45 min
May 31, 5:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ABR	Brown, Edmunds, McPherson	32 min
May 31, 5:40 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ABR	Brown	45 min
May 31, 6:17 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ABR	Marshall	63 min
May 31, 6:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ABR	Brown	49 min

By county

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

Nearby

Alerts in force now Tornadoes on record The radar archive 1995 1997

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.