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Tornado Watches in South Dakota, 2004

19 tornado watches in 2004. 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 2004. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
19
Busiest month
May6 tornado watches
Busiest day
June 10, 20042 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Apr 18, 4:40 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCUnion5 hr
May 11, 3:55 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBeadle, Brown, Clark, Codington, Day, Deuel and 10 more5 hr
May 16, 4:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBon Homme, Clay, Lincoln, Turner, Union, Yankton5 hr
May 19, 3:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBeadle, Brown, Buffalo, Clark, Day, Edmunds and 13 more5 hr
May 21, 7:40 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAurora, Bon Homme, Brule, Charles Mix, Clay, Davison and 8 more5 hr
May 23, 4:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBennett, Butte, Custer, Fall River, Harding, Lawrence and 3 more5 hr
May 29, 2:05 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAurora, Beadle, Bon Homme, Brookings, Brown, Brule and 34 more8 hr
Jun 10, 2:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBennett, Butte, Custer, Fall River, Haakon, Harding and 7 more7 hr
Jun 10, 4:05 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBrule, Buffalo, Campbell, Corson, Dewey, Gregory and 11 more5 hr
Jun 15, 3:35 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBon Homme, Brookings, Clay, Davison, Deuel, Hamlin and 13 more6 hr
Jul 12, 3:25 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAurora, Bon Homme, Brule, Charles Mix, Clay, Davison and 10 more6 hr
Jul 12, 6:20 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBon Homme, Clay, Hanson, Hutchinson, Lincoln, McCook and 4 more7 hr
Jul 15, 3:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBon Homme, Charles Mix, Clay, Douglas, Hutchinson, Lincoln and 3 more6 hr
Jul 18, 8:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBrown, Campbell, Clark, Codington, Day, Deuel and 12 more5 hr
Jul 20, 2:40 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAurora, Beadle, Bon Homme, Brookings, Brule, Buffalo and 20 more6 hr
Jul 31, 3:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBrookings, Clark, Codington, Day, Deuel, Grant and 13 more7 hr
Aug 1, 3:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBrookings, Codington, Day, Deuel, Grant, Hamlin and 5 more7 hr
Aug 1, 7:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBeadle, Brookings, Brown, Buffalo, Campbell, Clark and 26 more6 hr
Aug 23, 3:25 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCCampbell, Corson, Dewey, Edmunds, Faulk, Perkins and 3 more6 hr

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

26 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. June 10, 20042tornado watches
  2. July 12, 20042tornado watches
  3. April 18, 20041tornado watches
  4. May 11, 20041tornado watches
  5. May 16, 20041tornado watches
  6. May 19, 20041tornado watches
  7. May 22, 20041tornado watches
  8. May 23, 20041tornado watches
  9. May 29, 20041tornado watches
  10. June 15, 20041tornado watches
  11. July 15, 20041tornado watches
  12. July 19, 20041tornado watches

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.