Tornado Watches in South Dakota
364 tornado watches since 1986. 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 watches reaches back to 1997.
Tornado Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 364
- Busiest year
- 201036 tornado watches
- Average year
- 12over 30 years on file
Over time
By year
Watches are counted from 1997, when the Storm Prediction Center archive begins.
By month of the year
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Union County116
- Clay County112
- Bon Homme County109
- Lincoln County107
- Hutchinson County105
- Yankton County105
- Turner County103
- McCook County94
- Douglas County93
- Hanson County93
- Charles Mix County92
- Minnehaha County92
- Miner County91
- Deuel County90
- Lake County90
- Davison County89
- Hamlin County89
- Kingsbury County88
- Clark County87
- Sanborn County87
- Codington County86
- Grant County85
- Brookings County84
- Moody County84
- Roberts County84
- Aurora County82
- Beadle County81
- Gregory County79
- Jerauld County79
- Marshall County78
- Todd County78
- Bennett County77
- Jackson County76
- Day County75
- Mellette County75
- Tripp County74
- Spink County73
- Brule County70
- McPherson County69
- Faulk County68
26 more counties
- Brown County67
- Edmunds County65
- Haakon County65
- Hyde County65
- Hand County64
- Meade County64
- Lyman County63
- Buffalo County62
- Hughes County62
- Potter County62
- Pennington County61
- Campbell County59
- Custer County59
- Fall River County59
- Jones County59
- Ziebach County59
- Stanley County57
- Butte County56
- Sully County56
- Lawrence County55
- Perkins County55
- Walworth County54
- Harding County53
- Dewey County52
- Corson County50
- Oglala Lakota County35
The latest tornado watches
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 2:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brown, Campbell, Corson, McPherson, Marshall, Roberts | 10 hr |
| Jun 27, 4:05 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bennett, Butte, Campbell, Corson, Dewey, Haakon and 18 more | 11 hr |
| Jun 9, 8:36 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beadle, Bon Homme, Brookings, Clay, Davison, Hanson and 12 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 9, 4:32 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Aurora, Bennett, Brule, Buffalo, Campbell, Charles Mix and 24 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 3, 4:02 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Aurora, Beadle, Brookings, Brown, Brule, Buffalo and 34 more | 7 hr |
| May 17, 1:42 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Aurora, Bon Homme, Charles Mix, Clay, Davison, Douglas and 13 more | 8 hr |
Nearby
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.