South Dakota, 1994

Tornado in South Dakota, June 29, 1994

June 29, 1994 · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Property damage
$5,000
Crop damage
None recorded
Events
1

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

1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.

Tornado, Custer

When
June 29, 3:45 PM MDT
Where
Custer County, Custer
Rating
F0
Path length
0.25 mi
Path width
10 yd
Property damage
$5,000
Coordinates
43.678, -103.451 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

A tornado destroyed a chicken coup, chain link fence, and flipped a 1500 pound trailer upside down. The tornado also reportedly held 8 x 10 foot shed in the air for 10 minutes. A witness reported the tornado was not connected to a cloud and appeared to form from nearly clear skies. Perhaps this could better be defined as a land spout.

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.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

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: 10346332.