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Tornado Watches in South Dakota, 2005

19 tornado watches in 2005. 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 2005. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
19
Busiest month
June11 tornado watches
Busiest day
June 7, 20052 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
May 8, 1:50 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAurora, Beadle, Bon Homme, Brookings, Brown, Clark and 25 more7 hr
May 21, 5:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCClay, Union5 hr
Jun 1, 3:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCButte, Campbell, Corson, Dewey, Harding, Lawrence and 5 more8 hr
Jun 6, 3:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBennett, Butte, Custer, Fall River, Harding, Jackson and 5 more8 hr
Jun 7, 3:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBennett, Custer, Fall River, Haakon, Hughes, Jackson and 7 more8 hr
Jun 7, 5:05 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCButte, Campbell, Corson, Dewey, Edmunds, Faulk and 8 more7 hr
Jun 7, 9:50 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAurora, Beadle, Bon Homme, Brookings, Brown, Brule and 34 more7 hr
Jun 13, 12:20 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAurora, Brookings, Charles Mix, Clark, Codington, Davison and 17 more8 hr
Jun 25, 7:40 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCHarding6 hr
Jun 26, 1:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBrown, Campbell, Corson, Dewey, Edmunds, McPherson and 4 more8 hr
Jun 28, 3:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBennett, Butte, Custer, Fall River, Haakon, Harding and 6 more7 hr
Jun 29, 11:30 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCAurora, Beadle, Bon Homme, Brookings, Brown, Charles Mix and 25 more7 hr
Jun 29, 3:50 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCDeuel, Grant7 hr
Sep 12, 3:40 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAurora, Beadle, Bon Homme, Brookings, Charles Mix, Clark and 17 more4 hr
Sep 12, 7:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBrookings, Codington, Deuel, Hamlin, Kingsbury, Lake and 6 more6 hr
Sep 18, 3:40 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCUnion7 hr
Sep 24, 3:55 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBon Homme, Charles Mix, Clay, Gregory, Hutchinson, Lincoln and 3 more7 hr
Sep 24, 4:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBon Homme, Charles Mix, Clay, Gregory, Hutchinson, Lincoln and 3 more7 hr
Nov 12, 1:44 PM CSTTornado WatchSPCBrookings, Clay, Kingsbury, Lake, Lincoln, McCook and 5 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 7, 20052tornado watches
  2. June 26, 20052tornado watches
  3. June 29, 20052tornado watches
  4. September 24, 20052tornado watches
  5. May 8, 20051tornado watches
  6. May 21, 20051tornado watches
  7. June 1, 20051tornado watches
  8. June 6, 20051tornado watches
  9. June 8, 20051tornado watches
  10. June 13, 20051tornado watches
  11. June 28, 20051tornado watches
  12. September 12, 20051tornado 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.