South Dakota

Storms in South Dakota in 1987

205 events in 41 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in South Dakota in 1987, with each episode’s narrative and every event in it. Before 1996 the record holds tornadoes, hail and thunderstorm wind only, without narratives; floods, heat, winter storms and the other kinds begin in 1996.

South Dakota in 1987 on the map

Every episode with a place to put it, colored by kind of event.

  • Tornadoes
  • Tropical storms and surge
  • Floods
  • Wind
  • Hail
  • Winter weather
  • Heat and drought
  • Cold
  • Fire, smoke and dust
  • Marine and coastal
  • Other

Open the live radar over South Dakota

The year

Events
205
Deaths
0
Injuries
3
Damage
$280,000
Episodes
41

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.

By kind of event

Kind of eventEventsDeathsInjuriesDamage
Hail9401
Thunderstorm Wind7700
Tornado3402$280,000

Every episode, month by month

May 1987

June 1987

July 1987

August 1987

September 1987

More

Every year in South DakotaEvery state in 1987Tornadoes in South Dakota in 1987Warnings in South Dakota in 198719861988

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.