Alert archive / South Dakota / Tornado Watches
Tornado Watches in South Dakota, 2016
4 tornado watches in 2016. 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 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 4
- Busiest month
- July2 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- May 22, 20161 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 22, 3:20 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bennett, Haakon, Hughes, Jackson, Jones, Lyman and 5 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 14, 2:33 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Grant, Marshall, Roberts | 5 hr |
| Jul 5, 2:06 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brookings, Clark, Codington, Deuel, Grant, Hamlin and 2 more | 6 hr |
| Jul 6, 3:21 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bennett, Buffalo, Custer, Dewey, Fall River, Haakon and 17 more | 7 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Bennett County2
- Haakon County2
- Hughes County2
- Jackson County2
- Jones County2
- Lyman County2
- Mellette County2
- Stanley County2
- Sully County2
- Todd County2
- Tripp County2
- Grant County2
- Roberts County2
- Marshall County1
- Brookings County1
- Clark County1
- Codington County1
- Deuel County1
- Hamlin County1
- Kingsbury County1
- Buffalo County1
- Custer County1
- Dewey County1
- Fall River County1
- Hand County1
- Hyde County1
- Lawrence County1
- Meade County1
- Oglala Lakota County1
- Pennington County1
- Potter County1
- Ziebach 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.