Tornado, Brule
- When
- July 13, 12:17 AM CST
- Where
- Brule County
- Rating
- F0
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Coordinates
- 43.800, -99.330
Tornadoes and Hail in South Dakota, July 13, 1979
3 tornado, 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
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 5
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
3 tornado, 2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Tripp
- When
- July 13, 12:17 AM CST
- Where
- Tripp County
- Rating
- F0
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Coordinates
- 43.530, -99.900
Tornado, Tripp
- When
- July 13, 12:17 AM CST
- Where
- Tripp County
- Rating
- F0
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Coordinates
- 43.370, -99.870
Hail, Yankton
- When
- July 13, 1:40 PM CST
- Where
- Yankton County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 42.950, -97.380
Hail, Meade
- When
- July 13, 2:10 PM CST
- Where
- Meade County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 44.150, -102.980
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.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
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- Damaging Winds in Indiana, July 13, 1979
- Damaging Winds in Illinois, July 13, 1979
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, July 13, 1979
- Damaging Wind in Maryland, July 13, 1979
- Damaging Wind in Mississippi, July 13, 1979
- Damaging Wind in Virginia, July 13, 1979
- Damaging Wind in Colorado, July 13, 1979
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: 10124268, 10124269, 10124270, 10124271, 10124272.