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Tornado Warnings in South Dakota, 2004

51 tornado warnings in 2004. 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 2004. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
51
Busiest month
May21 tornado warnings
Busiest day
May 29, 200413 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
Mar 26, 5:08 PM CSTTornado WarningUNRMeade67 min
Apr 18, 4:38 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDHutchinson37 min
Apr 18, 4:46 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDTurner29 min
Apr 18, 5:13 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDUnion47 min
May 9, 7:35 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDClay, Union25 min
May 11, 12:10 AM CDTTornado WarningUNRCuster50 min
May 15, 5:37 PM CDTTornado WarningABRFaulk38 min
May 21, 8:08 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDUnion37 min
May 21, 9:22 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDClay, Yankton23 min
May 21, 9:47 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDClay, Union28 min
May 28, 6:56 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDLincoln, Turner49 min
May 28, 7:31 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDLincoln, Turner44 min
May 28, 8:01 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDClay, Union29 min
May 28, 8:10 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDLincoln35 min
May 28, 8:42 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDLincoln33 min
May 28, 8:55 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDUnion35 min
May 29, 4:58 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDTurner32 min
May 29, 5:18 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDMcCook, Minnehaha27 min
May 29, 5:46 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDMinnehaha29 min
May 29, 5:52 PM CDTTornado WarningABRBrown38 min
May 29, 6:16 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDMinnehaha29 min
May 29, 6:23 PM CDTTornado WarningABREdmunds37 min
May 29, 6:27 PM CDTTornado WarningABRBrown33 min
May 29, 6:33 PM CDTTornado WarningABRMcPherson27 min
May 29, 8:49 PM CDTTornado WarningABRRoberts26 min
Jun 10, 3:54 PM CDTTornado WarningUNRHaakon51 min
Jun 10, 4:45 PM CDTTornado WarningUNRZiebach60 min
Jun 10, 5:55 PM CDTTornado WarningABRStanley35 min
Jun 10, 6:26 PM CDTTornado WarningABRStanley34 min
Jun 10, 6:57 PM CDTTornado WarningABRStanley33 min
Jun 10, 7:34 PM CDTTornado WarningABRSully26 min
Jun 15, 3:53 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDBeadle37 min
Jun 15, 4:22 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDKingsbury23 min
Jun 15, 4:44 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDKingsbury46 min
Jun 15, 8:25 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDBrookings50 min
Jul 3, 10:06 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDYankton24 min
Jul 12, 4:03 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDGregory27 min
Jul 14, 9:22 PM CDTTornado WarningUNRButte53 min
Jul 14, 9:54 PM CDTTornado WarningUNRButte51 min
Jul 15, 5:19 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDCharles Mix26 min
Jul 15, 5:45 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDCharles Mix30 min
Jul 31, 8:26 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDLincoln, Turner34 min
Jul 31, 9:01 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDLincoln, Turner44 min
Jul 31, 9:28 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDClay, Union47 min
Aug 2, 8:27 PM CDTTornado WarningUNR48 min
Aug 2, 9:10 PM CDTTornado WarningUNR50 min
Aug 6, 5:15 PM CDTTornado WarningUNR45 min
Aug 6, 6:01 PM CDTTornado WarningUNR29 min
Aug 7, 4:33 PM CDTTornado WarningUNRButte, Lawrence42 min
Aug 23, 8:01 PM CDTTornado WarningABRDeuel29 min
Aug 23, 9:28 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDBrookings32 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. May 29, 200413tornado warnings
  2. June 10, 20045tornado warnings
  3. July 15, 20044tornado warnings
  4. April 18, 20043tornado warnings
  5. May 22, 20043tornado warnings
  6. June 15, 20043tornado warnings
  7. August 1, 20043tornado warnings
  8. August 3, 20042tornado warnings
  9. August 6, 20042tornado warnings
  10. August 24, 20042tornado warnings
  11. March 26, 20041tornado warnings
  12. May 10, 20041tornado 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.