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Tornado Warnings in South Dakota, 2016

29 tornado warnings in 2016. 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 2016. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
29
Busiest month
July14 tornado warnings
Busiest day
July 17, 20167 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 22, 6:30 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedUNRTodd, Tripp45 min
May 22, 7:13 PM CDTTornado WarningUNRTodd, Tripp16 min
May 28, 11:08 AM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedABREdmunds, Walworth22 min
May 28, 2:34 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedFSDLincoln26 min
Jun 13, 5:26 PM CDTTornado WarningUNRCuster, Pennington17 min
Jun 13, 8:02 PM CDTTornado WarningUNRBennett, Jackson, Mellette, Todd28 min
Jun 14, 2:45 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedABRDay30 min
Jun 14, 3:11 PM CDTTornado WarningABRDay, Marshall34 min
Jun 14, 3:18 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedABRDay, Grant, Roberts27 min
Jun 14, 4:15 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedABRGrant, Roberts30 min
Jul 5, 3:29 PM CDTTornado WarningABRHand31 min
Jul 6, 5:19 PM CDTTornado WarningUNRMeade26 min
Jul 6, 5:30 PM CDTTornado WarningUNRMeade, Pennington30 min
Jul 6, 5:40 PM CDTTornado WarningUNRMeade, Pennington20 min
Jul 16, 5:34 PM CDTTornado WarningUNRLawrence19 min
Jul 16, 7:25 PM CDTTornado WarningUNRBennett, Oglala Lakota23 min
Jul 16, 7:40 PM CDTTornado WarningABRClark, Spink23 min
Jul 16, 8:15 PM CDTTornado WarningABRClark30 min
Jul 16, 8:30 PM CDTTornado WarningABRClark, Hamlin30 min
Jul 16, 9:50 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDBrookings, Kingsbury40 min
Jul 16, 10:22 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDBrookings38 min
Jul 16, 11:06 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDBrookings24 min
Jul 22, 6:37 PM CDTTornado WarningUNRZiebach23 min
Jul 26, 7:38 PM CDTTornado WarningUNRFall River16 min
Aug 3, 10:12 PM CDTTornado WarningABRMcPherson19 min
Aug 9, 11:09 PM CDTTornado WarningABRCampbell, McPherson51 min
Aug 9, 11:54 PM CDTTornado WarningABRCampbell, McPherson41 min
Aug 10, 2:40 AM CDTTornado WarningABRMarshall, Roberts35 min
Aug 10, 8:53 PM CDTTornado WarningABRPotter24 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. July 17, 20167tornado warnings
  2. June 14, 20165tornado warnings
  3. July 6, 20163tornado warnings
  4. August 10, 20163tornado warnings
  5. May 28, 20162tornado warnings
  6. May 22, 20161tornado warnings
  7. May 23, 20161tornado warnings
  8. June 13, 20161tornado warnings
  9. July 5, 20161tornado warnings
  10. July 16, 20161tornado warnings
  11. July 22, 20161tornado warnings
  12. July 27, 20161tornado 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. Rebuilt daily.