Alert archive / South Dakota / Tornado Watches
Tornado Watches in South Dakota, 2002
7 tornado watches in 2002. 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 2002. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 7
- Busiest month
- June3 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- May 5, 20021 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 5, 4:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bon Homme, Charles Mix, Clay, Douglas, Hutchinson, Lincoln and 3 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 8, 2:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Butte, Harding, Lawrence, Meade, Pennington | 6 hr |
| Jun 19, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brown, Clark, Codington, Day, Deuel, Grant and 4 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 21, 5:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Aurora, Beadle, Bon Homme, Charles Mix, Clay, Davison and 14 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 24, 4:50 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Aurora, Beadle, Bon Homme, Brookings, Charles Mix, Clark and 20 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 3, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Aurora, Beadle, Brookings, Clark, Codington, Davison and 16 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 20, 7:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Aurora, Beadle, Bon Homme, Brookings, Brule, Buffalo and 23 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Bon Homme County4
- Charles Mix County4
- Douglas County4
- Hutchinson County4
- Lincoln County4
- Turner County4
- Yankton County4
- Clark County4
- Deuel County4
- Hamlin County4
- Aurora County4
- Beadle County4
- Davison County4
- Hanson County4
- Jerauld County4
- Lake County4
- McCook County4
- Miner County4
- Minnehaha County4
- Moody County4
- Sanborn County4
- Clay County3
- Codington County3
- Spink County3
- Brookings County3
- Kingsbury County3
- Union County2
- Day County2
- Grant County2
- Marshall County2
- Roberts County2
- Butte County1
- Harding County1
- Lawrence County1
- Meade County1
- Pennington County1
- Brown County1
- Brule County1
- Buffalo County1
- Gregory County1
3 more counties
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.