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Tornado Warnings in South Dakota, 1998

71 tornado warnings in 1998. 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 1998. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
71
Busiest month
June33 tornado warnings
Busiest day
June 26, 199810 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 14, 7:21 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDGregory34 min
May 14, 7:30 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDCharles Mix35 min
May 14, 7:40 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDGregory35 min
May 14, 7:44 PM CDTTornado WarningABRLyman46 min
May 14, 9:06 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDAurora34 min
May 14, 9:06 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDAurora19 min
May 14, 9:08 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDDavison, Sanborn32 min
May 14, 9:38 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDSanborn32 min
May 20, 5:32 PM CDTTornado WarningUNRFall River33 min
May 20, 5:59 PM CDTTornado WarningUNRFall River31 min
May 20, 6:26 PM CDTTornado WarningUNRFall River34 min
May 20, 7:00 PM CDTTornado WarningUNRFall River35 min
May 28, 6:57 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDUnion33 min
May 28, 7:37 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDUnion18 min
May 30, 6:39 PM CDTTornado WarningABRHand51 min
May 30, 6:57 PM CDTTornado WarningABRSpink33 min
May 30, 8:12 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDHanson33 min
May 30, 8:32 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDMcCook33 min
May 30, 8:45 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDHanson35 min
May 30, 9:04 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDMcCook36 min
May 30, 9:20 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDMinnehaha50 min
May 30, 9:28 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDTurner32 min
May 30, 9:56 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDLincoln24 min
Jun 10, 4:12 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDSanborn33 min
Jun 10, 4:37 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDMiner48 min
Jun 10, 4:45 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDSanborn20 min
Jun 10, 5:32 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDMiner33 min
Jun 14, 6:14 PM CDTTornado WarningABRCodington31 min
Jun 16, 7:20 PM CDTTornado WarningABRCorson35 min
Jun 17, 9:31 PM CDTTornado WarningABRLyman34 min
Jun 19, 8:35 PM CDTTornado WarningUNRJackson50 min
Jun 22, 9:04 PM CDTTornado WarningUNRButte, Lawrence46 min
Jun 23, 6:57 PM CDTTornado WarningUNRMeade33 min
Jun 23, 7:27 PM CDTTornado WarningUNRMeade33 min
Jun 23, 7:56 PM CDTTornado WarningUNRMeade34 min
Jun 23, 8:02 PM CDTTornado WarningUNRTodd33 min
Jun 23, 8:13 PM CDTTornado WarningUNRTripp32 min
Jun 23, 8:30 PM CDTTornado WarningUNRMeade30 min
Jun 23, 8:51 PM CDTTornado WarningUNRPennington34 min
Jun 23, 9:24 PM CDTTornado WarningUNRPennington31 min
Jun 23, 9:59 PM CDTTornado WarningUNRHaakon, Jackson, Pennington46 min
Jun 24, 8:17 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDBon Homme33 min
Jun 24, 9:20 PM CDTTornado WarningABRMcPherson50 min
Jun 26, 12:47 PM CDTTornado WarningABRCampbell, McPherson63 min
Jun 26, 3:14 PM CDTTornado WarningABREdmunds, McPherson36 min
Jun 26, 3:15 PM CDTTornado WarningABREdmunds, McPherson35 min
Jun 26, 3:30 PM CDTTornado WarningABRBrown30 min
Jun 26, 4:18 PM CDTTornado WarningABRBrown47 min
Jun 26, 5:33 PM CDTTornado WarningABRBrown47 min
Jun 26, 5:37 PM CDTTornado WarningABRDay48 min
Jun 26, 5:52 PM CDTTornado WarningABRHand48 min
Jun 26, 5:52 PM CDTTornado WarningABRHand53 min
Jun 26, 6:00 PM CDTTornado WarningABRMarshall50 min
Jun 26, 8:22 PM CDTTornado WarningABRCodington33 min
Jun 26, 8:30 PM CDTTornado WarningABRJones, Stanley50 min
Jun 26, 8:41 PM CDTTornado WarningABRLyman64 min
Jul 1, 8:08 PM CDTTornado WarningUNRMellette, Todd32 min
Jul 1, 9:17 PM CDTTornado WarningUNRTodd33 min
Jul 5, 10:27 PM CDTTornado WarningUNRButte43 min
Jul 5, 11:01 PM CDTTornado WarningUNRLawrence, Meade64 min
Jul 5, 11:09 PM CDTTornado WarningUNRButte46 min
Jul 6, 10:30 PM CDTTornado WarningUNRMeade, Ziebach50 min
Jul 9, 6:17 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDUnion33 min
Jul 11, 11:55 PM CDTTornado WarningUNRLawrence35 min
Jul 14, 9:39 PM CDTTornado WarningABRDeuel66 min
Jul 18, 6:10 PM CDTTornado WarningABRHand65 min
Jul 18, 6:59 PM CDTTornado WarningABRSpink66 min
Jul 18, 7:20 PM CDTTornado WarningABRClark60 min
Jul 18, 7:24 PM CDTTornado WarningABRDay61 min
Jul 18, 8:34 PM CDTTornado WarningABRRoberts66 min
Aug 26, 6:32 PM CDTTornado WarningUNRHaakon, Jackson33 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. June 26, 199810tornado warnings
  2. May 15, 19988tornado warnings
  3. June 24, 19988tornado warnings
  4. May 31, 19987tornado warnings
  5. June 10, 19984tornado warnings
  6. May 20, 19983tornado warnings
  7. June 27, 19983tornado warnings
  8. July 6, 19983tornado warnings
  9. July 19, 19983tornado warnings
  10. May 30, 19982tornado warnings
  11. June 23, 19982tornado warnings
  12. June 25, 19982tornado 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.