Alert archive / South Dakota / Tornado Warnings
Tornado Warnings in South Dakota, 2003
90 tornado warnings in 2003. 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 2003. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 90
- Busiest month
- June66 tornado warnings
- Busiest day
- June 25, 200332 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 3, 4:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | UNR | Meade | 44 min |
| May 3, 7:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | UNR | Perkins | 50 min |
| May 4, 4:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | UNR | Todd | 39 min |
| May 4, 5:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | UNR | Tripp | 43 min |
| May 4, 5:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Jones | 26 min |
| May 4, 5:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | UNR | Todd | 31 min |
| May 23, 5:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | UNR | Fall River | 57 min |
| Jun 5, 6:39 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Stanley | 36 min |
| Jun 9, 4:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | UNR | Haakon, Ziebach | 41 min |
| Jun 9, 5:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | UNR | Mellette, Todd | 48 min |
| Jun 9, 6:20 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | UNR | Tripp | 55 min |
| Jun 9, 7:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Gregory | 28 min |
| Jun 9, 8:00 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Gregory | 30 min |
| Jun 10, 6:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | UNR | Fall River | 31 min |
| Jun 11, 7:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Hughes, Lyman | 41 min |
| Jun 11, 7:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Hughes, Sully | 39 min |
| Jun 11, 7:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Potter | 43 min |
| Jun 11, 7:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Hughes | 33 min |
| Jun 11, 7:42 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Lyman | 48 min |
| Jun 11, 7:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Sully | 26 min |
| Jun 11, 8:06 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Hyde | 39 min |
| Jun 11, 8:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Sully | 47 min |
| Jun 11, 8:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Hughes | 27 min |
| Jun 11, 8:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Lyman | 47 min |
| Jun 11, 9:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Brule | 35 min |
| Jun 11, 9:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Lyman | 13 min |
| Jun 11, 9:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Lyman | 44 min |
| Jun 12, 2:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | UNR | Pennington | 43 min |
| Jun 23, 7:47 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Day, Grant, Roberts | 28 min |
| Jun 23, 8:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Grant, Roberts | 44 min |
| Jun 24, 5:13 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Davison | 32 min |
| Jun 24, 5:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Sanborn | 46 min |
| Jun 24, 5:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Jerauld | 38 min |
| Jun 24, 5:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Clay | 51 min |
| Jun 24, 6:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Sanborn | 50 min |
| Jun 24, 6:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Lincoln | 31 min |
| Jun 24, 6:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Lincoln, Minnehaha | 47 min |
| Jun 24, 6:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Clay | 38 min |
| Jun 24, 6:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Beadle | 49 min |
| Jun 24, 6:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Day | 36 min |
| Jun 24, 6:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Turner | 51 min |
| Jun 24, 7:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Clay, Lincoln | 46 min |
| Jun 24, 7:18 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Kingsbury | 27 min |
| Jun 24, 7:23 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Hyde | 37 min |
| Jun 24, 7:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Day, Marshall | 50 min |
| Jun 24, 7:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Codington | 45 min |
| Jun 24, 7:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Charles Mix, Douglas | 40 min |
| Jun 24, 7:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Kingsbury | 50 min |
| Jun 24, 7:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Turner | 32 min |
| Jun 24, 7:45 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Gregory | 30 min |
| Jun 24, 7:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Buffalo, Hand | 26 min |
| Jun 24, 7:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Lincoln | 54 min |
| Jun 24, 8:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Marshall, Roberts | 35 min |
| Jun 24, 8:10 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Jerauld | 35 min |
| Jun 24, 8:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Hand | 30 min |
| Jun 24, 8:15 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Turner | 45 min |
| Jun 24, 8:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Charles Mix, Douglas | 44 min |
| Jun 24, 8:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Clark, Hamlin | 49 min |
| Jun 24, 8:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Kingsbury | 31 min |
| Jun 24, 8:35 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Clay | 25 min |
| Jun 24, 8:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Lincoln | 31 min |
| Jun 24, 8:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Beadle | 46 min |
| Jun 24, 8:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Douglas | 49 min |
| Jun 24, 8:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Lincoln, Turner | 47 min |
| Jun 24, 9:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Hamlin | 49 min |
| Jun 24, 9:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Clark | 51 min |
| Jun 24, 9:32 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | McCook, Minnehaha | 43 min |
| Jun 24, 9:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Codington | 38 min |
| Jun 24, 9:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Beadle, Kingsbury | 32 min |
| Jun 24, 10:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Minnehaha | 46 min |
| Jun 24, 10:31 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Lake, Moody | 44 min |
| Jun 24, 10:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Turner | 26 min |
| Jun 24, 10:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Lincoln | 52 min |
| Jul 3, 8:38 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | UNR | Bennett | 67 min |
| Jul 3, 9:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | UNR | Todd | 32 min |
| Jul 4, 9:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Charles Mix | 27 min |
| Jul 5, 3:53 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | UNR | Custer | 67 min |
| Jul 5, 4:46 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | UNR | Jackson | 44 min |
| Jul 5, 5:24 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | UNR | Jackson | 66 min |
| Jul 5, 5:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | UNR | Bennett | 39 min |
| Jul 8, 6:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | UNR | Butte | 49 min |
| Jul 8, 7:43 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | UNR | Butte | 47 min |
| Jul 8, 8:27 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | UNR | Meade | 63 min |
| Jul 8, 9:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | UNR | Meade | 32 min |
| Jul 8, 10:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | UNR | Haakon | 56 min |
| Jul 17, 6:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | UNR | Fall River | 38 min |
| Jul 17, 6:44 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | UNR | 46 min | |
| Jul 20, 3:34 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Marshall | 41 min |
| Jul 29, 3:22 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Spink | 38 min |
| Aug 25, 6:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Brown, McPherson | 32 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Lincoln County7
- Lyman County5
- Turner County5
- Todd County4
- Hughes County4
- Clay County4
- Kingsbury County4
- Meade County3
- Fall River County3
- Gregory County3
- Sully County3
- Day County3
- Roberts County3
- Minnehaha County3
- Beadle County3
- Marshall County3
- Charles Mix County3
- Douglas County3
- Tripp County2
- Haakon County2
- Hyde County2
- Grant County2
- Sanborn County2
- Jerauld County2
- Codington County2
- Hand County2
- Clark County2
- Hamlin County2
- Bennett County2
- Jackson County2
- Butte County2
- Perkins County1
- Jones County1
- Stanley County1
- Ziebach County1
- Mellette County1
- Potter County1
- Brule County1
- Pennington County1
- Davison 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. Rebuilt daily.