Alert archive / South Dakota / Tornado Watches
Tornado Watches in South Dakota, 2000
8 tornado watches in 2000. 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 2000. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 8
- Busiest month
- July4 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- May 7, 20001 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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 3:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bennett, Custer, Fall River, Jackson, Mellette, Oglala Lakota and 1 more | 6 hr |
| May 17, 4:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Union | 5 hr |
| Jul 6, 4:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Harding | 5 hr |
| Jul 6, 7:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Campbell, Corson, Harding, Perkins | 6 hr |
| Jul 21, 3:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Custer, Fall River | 7 hr |
| Jul 24, 5:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Aurora, Beadle, Bon Homme, Brown, Brule, Buffalo and 27 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 16, 4:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Aurora, Bon Homme, Brule, Charles Mix, Clay, Davison and 10 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 30, 5:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brown, Campbell, Day, Edmunds, Faulk, McPherson and 4 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Custer County2
- Fall River County2
- Clay County2
- Union County2
- Harding County2
- Campbell County2
- Aurora County2
- Bon Homme County2
- Brown County2
- Brule County2
- Charles Mix County2
- Davison County2
- Day County2
- Douglas County2
- Edmunds County2
- Faulk County2
- Gregory County2
- Hanson County2
- Hutchinson County2
- McCook County2
- McPherson County2
- Marshall County2
- Roberts County2
- Bennett County1
- Jackson County1
- Mellette County1
- Oglala Lakota County1
- Todd County1
- Corson County1
- Perkins County1
- Beadle County1
- Buffalo County1
- Clark County1
- Codington County1
- Grant County1
- Hamlin County1
- Hand County1
- Hyde County1
- Jerauld County1
- Kingsbury County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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.