Tornado, Ziebach
- When
- July 10, 4:45 PM CST
- Where
- Ziebach County
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Coordinates
- 45.050, -101.770
Tornadoes and Hail in South Dakota, July 10, 1977
10 tornado, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail, 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
- $500,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 17
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
10 tornado, 5 thunderstorm wind, 2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Ziebach
- When
- July 10, 4:55 PM CST
- Where
- Ziebach County
- Path length
- 16 mi
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Coordinates
- 45.020, -101.670
Tornado, Bennett
- When
- July 10, 5:00 PM CST
- Where
- Bennett County
- Path length
- 4.1 mi
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Coordinates
- 43.180, -101.350
Tornado, Bennett
- When
- July 10, 5:00 PM CST
- Where
- Bennett County
- Path length
- 1.9 mi
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Coordinates
- 43.200, -101.770
Tornado, Bennett
- When
- July 10, 5:15 PM CST
- Where
- Bennett County
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Coordinates
- 43.050, -101.400
Tornado, Bennett
- When
- July 10, 5:30 PM CST
- Where
- Bennett County
- Rating
- F2
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Coordinates
- 43.000, -101.300
Tornado, Haakon
- When
- July 10, 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Haakon County
- Path length
- 7.3 mi
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Coordinates
- 44.380, -101.330
Hail, Pennington
- When
- July 10, 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Pennington County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 44.100, -103.250
Hail, Meade
- When
- July 10, 7:01 PM CST
- Where
- Meade County
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 44.150, -103.100
Thunderstorm Wind, Potter
- When
- July 10, 7:20 PM CST
- Where
- Potter County
- Measured
- 56 kt (64 mph)
- Coordinates
- 45.250, -99.800
Thunderstorm Wind, Edmunds
- When
- July 10, 7:30 PM CST
- Where
- Edmunds County
- Measured
- 56 kt (64 mph)
- Coordinates
- 45.450, -99.670
Thunderstorm Wind, Edmunds
- When
- July 10, 8:00 PM CST
- Where
- Edmunds County
- Measured
- 56 kt (64 mph)
- Coordinates
- 45.450, -99.030
Tornado, McPherson
- When
- July 10, 8:35 PM CST
- Where
- McPherson County
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 45.880, -98.950
Thunderstorm Wind, Brown
- When
- July 10, 8:45 PM CST
- Where
- Brown County
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph)
- Coordinates
- 45.520, -98.630
Thunderstorm Wind, Davison
- When
- July 10, 9:00 PM CST
- Where
- Davison County
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph)
- Coordinates
- 43.720, -98.020
Tornado, Brown
- When
- July 10, 9:35 PM CST
- Where
- Brown County
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Coordinates
- 45.000, -97.750
Tornado, Clark
- When
- July 10, 10:15 PM CST
- Where
- Clark County
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 44.830, -97.700
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
- Tornadoes and Hail in Nebraska, July 10, 1977
- Tornado and Hail in North Dakota, July 10, 1977
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Kansas, July 10, 1977
- Damaging Wind in Kentucky, July 10, 1977
- Damaging Wind in Virginia, July 10, 1977
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, July 10, 1977
- Tornado in Iowa, July 10, 1977
- Damaging Wind in Arizona, July 10, 1977
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: 10110510, 10110511, 10110512, 10110513, 10110514, 10110515, 10110516, 10110517, 10110518, 10110519, 10110520, 10110521, 10110522, 10110523, 10110524, 10113645, 10113646.