Tornado, Brown
- When
- June 17, 5:15 PM CST
- Where
- Brown County
- Rating
- F1
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 45.580, -98.500
Tornado and Hail in South Dakota, June 17, 1973
4 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 9
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
Event by event
4 hail, 4 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Brown
- When
- June 17, 5:20 PM CST
- Where
- Brown County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 45.630, -98.200
Thunderstorm Wind, Edmunds
- When
- June 17, 6:44 PM CST
- Where
- Edmunds County
- Measured
- 61 kt (70 mph)
- Coordinates
- 45.400, -98.700
Hail, Sully
- When
- June 17, 7:00 PM CST
- Where
- Sully County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 44.700, -100.100
Thunderstorm Wind, Sully
- When
- June 17, 7:00 PM CST
- Where
- Sully County
- Coordinates
- 44.700, -100.100
Hail, Bon Homme
- When
- June 17, 11:00 PM CST
- Where
- Bon Homme County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 43.000, -98.000
Thunderstorm Wind, Bon Homme
- When
- June 17, 11:00 PM CST
- Where
- Bon Homme County
- Coordinates
- 43.000, -98.000
Hail, Charles Mix
- When
- June 17, 11:37 PM CST
- Where
- Charles Mix County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 43.380, -98.830
Thunderstorm Wind, Charles Mix
- When
- June 17, 11:37 PM CST
- Where
- Charles Mix County
- Coordinates
- 43.380, -98.830
What these are
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornado in Indiana, June 17, 1973
- Tornado in North Carolina, June 17, 1973
- Tornado in Alabama, June 17, 1973
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Nebraska, June 17, 1973
- Damaging Winds in Kentucky, June 17, 1973
- Tornadoes in Illinois, June 17, 1973
- Damaging Winds in Wyoming, June 17, 1973
- Hail in Louisiana, June 17, 1973
- Damaging Wind in West Virginia, June 17, 1973
- Hail in Kansas, June 17, 1973
More
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Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 10111292, 10111293, 10111294, 10111295, 10111296, 10111297, 10111298, 10111299, 10111300.