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Tornado Watches in South Dakota, 1997

18 tornado watches in 1997. 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 in 1997. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
18
Busiest month
June7 tornado watches
Busiest day
June 22, 19973 tornado watches

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, 7:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBrookings, Brown, Clark, Codington, Day, Deuel and 11 more6 hr
Jun 11, 3:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBennett, Gregory, Mellette, Todd, Tripp6 hr
Jun 14, 5:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCButte, Custer, Fall River, Lawrence, Meade, Oglala Lakota and 1 more6 hr
Jun 19, 3:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBennett, Fall River, Oglala Lakota7 hr
Jun 19, 6:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBon Homme, Clay, Gregory, Todd, Union, Yankton6 hr
Jun 22, 12:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBeadle, Brookings, Brown, Buffalo, Campbell, Clark and 29 more6 hr
Jun 22, 4:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCHarding, Perkins7 hr
Jun 22, 6:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBeadle, Brookings, Buffalo, Clark, Codington, Day and 14 more5 hr
Jul 1, 6:15 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCBennett, Butte, Campbell, Corson, Custer, Dewey and 20 more7 hr
Jul 1, 1:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAurora, Beadle, Brookings, Brown, Brule, Clark and 22 more6 hr
Jul 1, 4:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCampbell, Corson, Dewey, Edmunds, Potter, Walworth5 hr
Jul 7, 4:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCClay, Lake, Lincoln, McCook, Minnehaha, Moody and 3 more6 hr
Jul 12, 3:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCButte, Custer, Fall River, Lawrence, Meade, Oglala Lakota and 1 more6 hr
Jul 24, 4:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBon Homme, Charles Mix, Clay, Douglas, Hutchinson, Lincoln and 5 more6 hr
Jul 25, 6:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBeadle, Brookings, Brown, Campbell, Clark, Codington and 17 more5 hr
Oct 8, 6:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCLincoln5 hr
Oct 11, 4:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBennett, Campbell, Corson, Custer, Dewey, Fall River and 16 more6 hr
Oct 11, 9:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAurora, Beadle, Bennett, Brown, Brule, Buffalo and 30 more6 hr

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

26 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. June 22, 19973tornado watches
  2. July 1, 19973tornado watches
  3. June 19, 19972tornado watches
  4. May 18, 19971tornado watches
  5. June 11, 19971tornado watches
  6. June 14, 19971tornado watches
  7. July 7, 19971tornado watches
  8. July 12, 19971tornado watches
  9. July 24, 19971tornado watches
  10. July 25, 19971tornado watches
  11. October 8, 19971tornado watches
  12. October 11, 19971tornado watches

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.