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Tornado Warnings in South Dakota, 2026

42 tornado warnings in 2026. 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 2026. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
42
Busiest month
June18 tornado warnings
Busiest day
July 2, 202614 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 17, 2:50 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDBon Homme, Charles Mix, Hutchinson40 min
May 17, 3:23 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDHutchinson, Turner, Yankton52 min
May 17, 3:35 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDHutchinson, Turner28 min
May 17, 4:27 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDLincoln, Minnehaha48 min
May 31, 6:07 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDMcCook38 min
May 31, 7:06 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDMcCook, Minnehaha39 min
May 31, 7:42 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDMcCook, Minnehaha23 min
May 31, 7:50 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDTurner40 min
May 31, 8:03 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDMinnehaha42 min
May 31, 8:29 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDLincoln, Turner46 min
May 31, 8:43 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDMinnehaha32 min
May 31, 8:57 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedFSDLincoln, Turner35 min
May 31, 9:11 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDClay, Union49 min
Jun 3, 7:03 PM CDTTornado WarningUNRTripp42 min
Jun 3, 7:41 PM CDTTornado WarningUNRTripp18 min
Jun 7, 6:30 PM CDTTornado WarningUNRHarding16 min
Jun 9, 11:54 PM CDTTornado WarningABRClark, Codington, Day, Grant51 min
Jun 9, 11:58 PM CDTTornado WarningABRClark, Codington, Grant47 min
Jun 27, 7:42 PM CDTTornado WarningUNRHarding, Perkins33 min
Jun 29, 4:26 AM CDTTornado WarningUNRMellette, Todd34 min
Jun 29, 7:58 AM CDTTornado WarningABRBrown, Day, Marshall32 min
Jun 29, 8:05 AM CDTTornado WarningABRBrown, Day21 min
Jun 29, 8:15 AM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedABRDay, Marshall30 min
Jul 2, 2:58 PM CDTTornado WarningABRBuffalo33 min
Jul 2, 3:06 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDJerauld24 min
Jul 2, 3:19 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedABRBuffalo26 min
Jul 2, 3:23 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDJerauld37 min
Jul 2, 3:51 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDBeadle, Jerauld39 min
Jul 2, 3:56 PM CDTTornado WarningABRHand34 min
Jul 2, 4:30 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDAurora, Jerauld, Sanborn45 min
Jul 2, 4:42 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDAurora, Jerauld, Sanborn48 min
Jul 2, 4:46 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDBeadle, Jerauld, Sanborn44 min
Jul 2, 4:47 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDBeadle43 min
Jul 2, 5:35 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedABRClark, Hamlin40 min
Jul 2, 5:37 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDBeadle, Kingsbury23 min
Jul 2, 6:13 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDLake32 min
Jul 2, 6:16 PM CDTTornado WarningABRHamlin44 min
Aug 10, 9:57 PM CDTTornado WarningUNRMeade, Ziebach33 min
Aug 10, 10:27 PM CDTTornado Warning Tornado observedUNRMeade, Ziebach33 min
Sep 1, 8:48 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDClay, Yankton27 min
Sep 7, 7:37 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDCharles Mix, Gregory38 min
Sep 7, 8:24 PM CDTTornado WarningFSDBon Homme, Charles Mix36 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 2, 202614tornado warnings
  2. June 1, 20268tornado warnings
  3. May 17, 20264tornado warnings
  4. June 29, 20264tornado warnings
  5. June 4, 20262tornado warnings
  6. June 10, 20262tornado warnings
  7. August 11, 20262tornado warnings
  8. September 8, 20262tornado warnings
  9. May 31, 20261tornado warnings
  10. June 7, 20261tornado warnings
  11. June 28, 20261tornado warnings
  12. September 2, 20261tornado 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.