Alert archive / South Dakota / Tornado Watches
Tornado Watches in South Dakota, 2014
13 tornado watches in 2014. 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 2014. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 13
- Busiest month
- June10 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- June 17, 20143 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 8, 1:46 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Lincoln, Minnehaha, Union | 7 hr |
| Jun 5, 4:55 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brookings, Clay, Lincoln, Minnehaha, Moody, Union | 4 hr |
| Jun 14, 5:10 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Union | 7 hr |
| Jun 16, 5:37 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Union | 6 hr |
| Jun 17, 1:31 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bennett, Butte, Custer, Harding, Jackson, Lawrence and 3 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 17, 4:53 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Mellette, Todd, Tripp | 6 hr |
| Jun 17, 6:48 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bon Homme, Clay, Hanson, Hutchinson, Lake, Lincoln and 7 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 17, 11:39 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Hanson, Hutchinson, Lake, Lincoln, McCook and 5 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 18, 1:28 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Buffalo, Campbell, Corson, Dewey, Edmunds, Faulk and 13 more | 9 hr |
| Jun 18, 6:23 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Aurora, Beadle, Bon Homme, Brookings, Brule, Charles Mix and 18 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 18, 7:37 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brown, Clark, Codington, Day, Deuel, Grant and 4 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 23, 6:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brown, Clark, Day, Edmunds, Faulk, McPherson and 2 more | 4 hr |
| Aug 31, 3:31 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Union | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Union County8
- Clay County6
- Lincoln County5
- Minnehaha County5
- Moody County4
- Hanson County3
- Hutchinson County3
- Lake County3
- McCook County3
- Miner County3
- Turner County3
- Brookings County2
- Perkins County2
- Bon Homme County2
- Yankton County2
- Edmunds County2
- Faulk County2
- McPherson County2
- Brown County2
- Clark County2
- Day County2
- Marshall County2
- Spink County2
- Bennett County1
- Butte County1
- Custer County1
- Harding County1
- Jackson County1
- Lawrence County1
- Meade County1
- Pennington County1
- Mellette County1
- Todd County1
- Tripp County1
- Buffalo County1
- Campbell County1
- Corson County1
- Dewey County1
- Haakon County1
- Hand County1
24 more counties
- Hughes County1
- Hyde County1
- Jones County1
- Lyman County1
- Potter County1
- Stanley County1
- Sully County1
- Walworth County1
- Ziebach County1
- Aurora County1
- Beadle County1
- Brule County1
- Charles Mix County1
- Davison County1
- Douglas County1
- Gregory County1
- Jerauld County1
- Kingsbury County1
- Sanborn County1
- Codington County1
- Deuel County1
- Grant County1
- Hamlin County1
- Roberts 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.