Thunderstorm Wind, Brown
- When
- April 26, 3:43 AM CST
- Where
- Brown County
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph)
- Coordinates
- 45.450, -98.420
Tornado and Hail in South Dakota, April 26, 1984
6 hail, 2 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
- $250,000
- 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
6 hail, 2 thunderstorm wind, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Brown
- When
- April 26, 11:30 AM CST
- Where
- Brown County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 45.580, -98.200
Hail, Clay
- When
- April 26, 3:00 PM CST
- Where
- Clay County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 42.800, -96.800
Hail, Union
- When
- April 26, 3:00 PM CST
- Where
- Union County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 42.680, -96.670
Tornado, Bennett
- When
- April 26, 3:15 PM CST
- Where
- Bennett County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 7 mi
- Path width
- 30 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 43.200, -101.370
Hail, Jerauld
- When
- April 26, 3:30 PM CST
- Where
- Jerauld County
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 44.000, -98.680
Thunderstorm Wind, Minnehaha
- When
- April 26, 3:30 PM CST
- Where
- Minnehaha County
- Coordinates
- 43.530, -96.720
Hail, Union
- When
- April 26, 4:50 PM CST
- Where
- Union County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 42.600, -96.550
Hail, McCook
- When
- April 26, 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- McCook County
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 43.730, -97.380
What these are
- 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.
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
- 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.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornadoes and Hail in Oklahoma, April 26, 1984
- Tornadoes and Hail in Minnesota, April 26, 1984
- Tornadoes and Hail in Kansas, April 26, 1984
- Tornadoes and Hail in Iowa, April 26, 1984
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Missouri, April 26, 1984
- Tornado and Hail in Louisiana, April 26, 1984
- Tornado and Hail in Wisconsin, April 26, 1984
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Nebraska, April 26, 1984
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Mississippi, April 26, 1984
- Hail in North Dakota, April 26, 1984
- Damaging Wind in Kentucky, April 26, 1984
- Hail in Arkansas, April 26, 1984
More
Every storm in South Dakota in 1984Every state in 1984This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for South Dakota, 1984
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: 10123049, 10123050, 10123051, 10123052, 10123053, 10123054, 10123055, 10123056, 10123057.