Alert archive / South Dakota / Tornado Warnings
Tornado Warnings in South Dakota, 1997
60 tornado warnings in 1997. 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 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 60
- Busiest month
- July29 tornado warnings
- Busiest day
- June 22, 199713 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 17, 7:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Brown, Marshall | 32 min |
| May 17, 7:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Marshall | 19 min |
| May 17, 8:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Marshall | 33 min |
| Jun 11, 2:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | UNR | Mellette | 31 min |
| Jun 14, 5:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | UNR | Meade | 33 min |
| Jun 14, 5:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | UNR | Meade, Pennington | 32 min |
| Jun 14, 6:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | UNR | Meade, Pennington | 33 min |
| Jun 15, 2:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | UNR | Fall River | 35 min |
| Jun 21, 5:21 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | UNR | Pennington | 34 min |
| Jun 22, 11:40 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Edmunds | 45 min |
| Jun 22, 12:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | McPherson, Walworth | 30 min |
| Jun 22, 12:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Edmunds | 65 min |
| Jun 22, 12:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Faulk | 33 min |
| Jun 22, 2:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Spink | 32 min |
| Jun 22, 2:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Clark | 61 min |
| Jun 22, 2:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Clark | 58 min |
| Jun 22, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Spink | 35 min |
| Jun 22, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Hamlin | 50 min |
| Jun 22, 4:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Deuel | 61 min |
| Jun 22, 4:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Deuel | 59 min |
| Jun 22, 4:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Hamlin | 32 min |
| Jun 22, 5:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Brookings | 29 min |
| Jun 24, 2:13 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | UNR | Ziebach | 47 min |
| Jun 28, 8:53 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Edmunds | 47 min |
| Jun 28, 8:58 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Faulk, Potter | 47 min |
| Jun 29, 6:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Day | 32 min |
| Jun 29, 6:57 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Day | 33 min |
| Jul 7, 4:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Lincoln, Minnehaha | 29 min |
| Jul 7, 5:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Union | 32 min |
| Jul 7, 5:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Lincoln | 34 min |
| Jul 16, 7:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Hughes | 46 min |
| Jul 16, 8:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Hughes | 35 min |
| Jul 16, 8:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Potter | 47 min |
| Jul 16, 9:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Day | 48 min |
| Jul 18, 3:24 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Clark | 31 min |
| Jul 18, 3:50 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Day | 30 min |
| Jul 19, 9:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Grant | 33 min |
| Jul 24, 6:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | UNR | Pennington | 50 min |
| Jul 24, 7:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | UNR | Pennington | 48 min |
| Jul 24, 8:12 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Moody | 33 min |
| Jul 24, 9:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Clark | 30 min |
| Jul 24, 9:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Kingsbury | 31 min |
| Jul 24, 10:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Kingsbury | 32 min |
| Jul 24, 11:05 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Kingsbury | 35 min |
| Jul 25, 12:02 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Kingsbury | 33 min |
| Jul 25, 4:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | McPherson | 44 min |
| Jul 25, 5:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Edmunds, McPherson | 58 min |
| Jul 25, 6:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Edmunds | 50 min |
| Jul 25, 6:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Brown | 34 min |
| Jul 25, 7:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Marshall | 50 min |
| Jul 25, 7:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Brown, Spink | 49 min |
| Jul 25, 7:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Dewey | 61 min |
| Jul 25, 8:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Spink | 64 min |
| Jul 25, 11:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Lake | 48 min |
| Jul 27, 11:02 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Union | 33 min |
| Jul 27, 6:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Codington, Hamlin | 48 min |
| Aug 2, 4:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Dewey | 34 min |
| Aug 5, 8:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Roberts | 76 min |
| Aug 13, 4:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | UNR | Mellette | 32 min |
| Sep 8, 2:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Hutchinson, Turner | 35 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Pennington County5
- Edmunds County5
- Marshall County4
- Spink County4
- Clark County4
- Day County4
- Kingsbury County4
- Brown County3
- Meade County3
- McPherson County3
- Hamlin County3
- Mellette County2
- Faulk County2
- Deuel County2
- Potter County2
- Lincoln County2
- Union County2
- Hughes County2
- Dewey County2
- Fall River County1
- Walworth County1
- Brookings County1
- Ziebach County1
- Minnehaha County1
- Grant County1
- Moody County1
- Lake County1
- Codington County1
- Roberts County1
- Hutchinson County1
- Turner County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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.