Alert archive / South Dakota / Tornado Watches / 2002
Tornado Watches in South Dakota, August 2002
2 tornado watches in August 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 August 2002. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 2
- Busiest day
- August 3, 20021 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 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.
- Aurora County2
- Beadle County2
- Brookings County2
- Clark County2
- Davison County2
- Deuel County2
- Hamlin County2
- Hanson County2
- Jerauld County2
- Kingsbury County2
- Lake County2
- McCook County2
- Miner County2
- Minnehaha County2
- Moody County2
- Sanborn County2
- Codington County1
- Day County1
- Grant County1
- Marshall County1
- Roberts County1
- Spink County1
- Bon Homme County1
- Brule County1
- Buffalo County1
- Charles Mix County1
- Douglas County1
- Gregory County1
- Hand County1
- Hutchinson County1
- Hyde County1
- Lincoln County1
- Tripp County1
- Turner County1
- Yankton 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.