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Tornado Watches in South Dakota, 2015
13 tornado watches in 2015. 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 2015. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 13
- Busiest month
- June8 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- June 21, 20152 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 10, 10:46 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Aurora, Bon Homme, Brookings, Clay, Davison, Douglas and 14 more | 8 hr |
| May 16, 5:25 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Codington, Deuel, Grant, Hamlin | 5 hr |
| Jun 2, 2:46 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Campbell, Corson, McPherson | 7 hr |
| Jun 6, 3:40 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Aurora, Beadle, Bon Homme, Brookings, Brule, Charles Mix and 18 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 6, 8:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bon Homme, Clay, Lincoln, Minnehaha, Moody, Turner and 2 more | 4 hr |
| Jun 16, 4:49 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bennett, Jackson, Mellette, Todd, Tripp | 7 hr |
| Jun 19, 3:51 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bennett, Butte, Custer, Haakon, Harding, Jackson and 5 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 21, 3:23 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Campbell, Corson, Dewey, McPherson | 8 hr |
| Jun 21, 5:57 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Butte, Harding, Lawrence, Meade, Perkins, Ziebach | 5 hr |
| Jun 30, 5:29 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Butte, Corson, Dewey, Haakon, Harding, Jackson and 4 more | 7 hr |
| Jul 12, 5:28 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brookings, Codington, Deuel, Grant, Hamlin, Lake and 3 more | 5 hr |
| Jul 25, 4:03 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Aurora, Beadle, Brookings, Brown, Brule, Buffalo and 33 more | 7 hr |
| Aug 22, 2:35 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Lincoln, Union | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Minnehaha County5
- Moody County5
- Brookings County4
- Clay County4
- Lake County4
- Lincoln County4
- Union County4
- Corson County4
- Aurora County3
- Bon Homme County3
- Davison County3
- Hanson County3
- Jerauld County3
- Kingsbury County3
- McCook County3
- Miner County3
- Sanborn County3
- Turner County3
- Yankton County3
- Codington County3
- Deuel County3
- Grant County3
- Hamlin County3
- Campbell County3
- McPherson County3
- Jackson County3
- Butte County3
- Harding County3
- Lawrence County3
- Meade County3
- Perkins County3
- Ziebach County3
- Dewey County3
- Douglas County2
- Hutchinson County2
- Beadle County2
- Brule County2
- Bennett County2
- Haakon County2
- Charles Mix County1
24 more counties
- Gregory County1
- Mellette County1
- Todd County1
- Tripp County1
- Custer County1
- Pennington County1
- Roberts County1
- Brown County1
- Buffalo County1
- Clark County1
- Day County1
- Edmunds County1
- Faulk County1
- Hand County1
- Hughes County1
- Hyde County1
- Jones County1
- Lyman County1
- Marshall County1
- Potter County1
- Spink County1
- Stanley County1
- Sully County1
- Walworth County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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.