Alert archive / South Dakota / Tornado Watches
Tornado Watches in South Dakota, 2001
14 tornado watches in 2001. 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 2001. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 14
- Busiest month
- June9 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- June 13, 20014 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 9, 3:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bennett, Butte, Custer, Fall River, Harding, Jackson and 5 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 12, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Butte, Custer, Fall River, Harding, Lawrence | 6 hr |
| Jun 12, 6:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Aurora, Bon Homme, Brule, Charles Mix, Clay, Davison and 9 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 12, 7:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bennett, Gregory, Mellette, Oglala Lakota, Todd, Tripp | 6 hr |
| Jun 13, 12:00 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bon Homme, Charles Mix, Clay, Davison, Douglas, Gregory and 10 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 13, 4:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bon Homme, Brookings, Clark, Codington, Day, Deuel and 16 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 13, 6:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Union | 6 hr |
| Jun 17, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Aurora, Beadle, Bon Homme, Brookings, Charles Mix, Clark and 21 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 30, 5:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bennett, Butte, Custer, Fall River, Haakon, Jackson and 8 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 4, 3:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Butte, Custer, Fall River, Lawrence, Oglala Lakota, Pennington | 7 hr |
| Jul 19, 7:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Beadle, Brown, Buffalo, Campbell, Clark, Codington and 20 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 20, 5:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Harding, Perkins | 7 hr |
| Jul 25, 3:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bennett, Custer, Fall River, Haakon, Jackson, Jones and 7 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 25, 7:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brule, Buffalo, Faulk, Hand, Hughes, Hyde and 8 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Custer County5
- Fall River County5
- Lawrence County5
- Oglala Lakota County5
- Todd County5
- Bennett County4
- Butte County4
- Pennington County4
- Bon Homme County4
- Hanson County4
- Hutchinson County4
- Lincoln County4
- McCook County4
- Minnehaha County4
- Turner County4
- Union County4
- Yankton County4
- Mellette County4
- Harding County3
- Jackson County3
- Meade County3
- Charles Mix County3
- Clay County3
- Davison County3
- Douglas County3
- Tripp County3
- Clark County3
- Codington County3
- Hamlin County3
- Kingsbury County3
- Lake County3
- Miner County3
- Sanborn County3
- Spink County3
- Jones County3
- Perkins County2
- Aurora County2
- Brule County2
- Gregory County2
- Brookings County2
24 more counties
- Day County2
- Deuel County2
- Marshall County2
- Moody County2
- Roberts County2
- Beadle County2
- Jerauld County2
- Haakon County2
- Buffalo County2
- Faulk County2
- Hand County2
- Hughes County2
- Hyde County2
- Lyman County2
- Potter County2
- Sully County2
- Grant County1
- Ziebach County1
- Brown County1
- Campbell County1
- Edmunds County1
- McPherson County1
- Walworth County1
- Stanley 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.