Tornado, Fall River
- When
- June 15, 12:36 PM MST
- Where
- Fall River County, 5 mi N of Hot Spgs
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 1 yd
- Coordinates
- 43.500, -103.480
Tornado in South Dakota, June 15, 1997
A thunderstorm produced a brief tornado near Argyle Road. No injuries or damage were reported.
Where it happened
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- 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
- 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.
What happened
The episode as NWS UNR wrote it up.
A thunderstorm produced a brief tornado near Argyle Road. No injuries or damage were reported.
The radar
The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 87 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:35 UTC.
Event by event
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
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
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- Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, June 15, 1997
- Hail in Kansas, June 15, 1997
- Flooding and Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, June 15, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, June 15, 1997
- Damaging Winds in Texas, June 15, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Texas, June 15, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Iowa, June 15, 1997
- Tornado in Iowa, June 15, 1997
- Hail in Iowa, June 15, 1997
More
Every storm in South Dakota in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for South Dakota, 1997Warnings in South Dakota, June 1997
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: 5603700.