Alert archive / South Dakota / Tornado Watches / 2000
Tornado Watches in South Dakota, August 2000
2 tornado watches in August 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 August 2000. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 2
- Busiest day
- August 16, 20001 tornado watches
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
- Aurora County1
- Bon Homme County1
- Brule County1
- Charles Mix County1
- Clay County1
- Davison County1
- Douglas County1
- Gregory County1
- Hanson County1
- Hutchinson County1
- Lincoln County1
- McCook County1
- Minnehaha County1
- Turner County1
- Union County1
- Yankton County1
- Brown County1
- Campbell County1
- Day County1
- Edmunds County1
- Faulk County1
- McPherson County1
- Marshall County1
- Potter County1
- Roberts County1
- Walworth County1
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.