Tornado, McCook
- When
- May 30, 7:56 PM CST
- Where
- McCook County, Salem to 4 mi W of Canistota
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 6 mi
- Path width
- 700 yd
- Property damage
- $900,000
- Crop damage
- $100,000
- Reported by
- NWS STORM SURVEY
- Coordinates
- 43.700, -97.430
Tornado in South Dakota, May 30, 1998
A tornado spawned by the same storm which produced the Spencer tornado damaged farms, crops, trees, and power lines in southern McCook County.
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
- $900,000
- Crop damage
- $100,000
- 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 FSD wrote it up.
A tornado spawned by the same storm which produced the Spencer tornado damaged farms, crops, trees, and power lines in southern McCook County.
The radar
The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 58 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:54 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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- Tornadoes and Hail in Iowa, May 30, 1998
- Tornado in South Dakota, May 30, 1998
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, May 30 to 31, 1998
- Lightning Strike in Georgia, May 30, 1998
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in Minnesota, May 30, 1998
- Damaging Winds in Iowa, May 30 to 31, 1998
- Tornado in South Dakota, May 30, 1998
- Tornado in South Dakota, May 30, 1998
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: 5660573.