Alert archive / South Dakota / Tornado Watches
Tornado Watches in South Dakota, 2017
4 tornado watches in 2017. 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 2017. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 4
- Busiest month
- June3 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- June 12, 20171 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 12, 6:35 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bennett, Butte, Custer, Fall River, Haakon, Jackson and 8 more | 8 hr |
| Jun 13, 3:13 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Aurora, Beadle, Bon Homme, Brookings, Brown, Brule and 29 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 13, 7:01 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Lincoln, Minnehaha, Moody, Turner, Union and 1 more | 6 hr |
| Sep 19, 3:37 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Aurora, Beadle, Bon Homme, Brookings, Brown, Brule and 33 more | 8 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Tripp County2
- Aurora County2
- Beadle County2
- Bon Homme County2
- Brookings County2
- Brown County2
- Brule County2
- Buffalo County2
- Charles Mix County2
- Clark County2
- Codington County2
- Davison County2
- Day County2
- Deuel County2
- Douglas County2
- Edmunds County2
- Faulk County2
- Grant County2
- Gregory County2
- Hamlin County2
- Hand County2
- Hanson County2
- Hutchinson County2
- Hyde County2
- Jerauld County2
- Kingsbury County2
- Lake County2
- Lyman County2
- McCook County2
- McPherson County2
- Marshall County2
- Miner County2
- Roberts County2
- Sanborn County2
- Spink County2
- Yankton County2
- Bennett County1
- Butte County1
- Custer County1
- Fall River 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.