Tornado, Sanborn
- When
- June 4, 11:10 PM CST to 11:28 PM CST
- Where
- Sanborn County, Woonsocket to 7 mi NE of Forestburg
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 10 mi
- Path width
- 400 yd
- Property damage
- $200,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 43.950, -98.270
Tornado in South Dakota, June 4, 1999
A tornado caused severe damage to one home, lighter damage to several other homes, uprooted or severely damaged many large trees, and damaged vehicles, power lines, and small structures; all in Forestburg. The tornado caused little reported damage outside of Forestburg along its 10 mile path.
Where it happened
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- Heat and drought
- Cold
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The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $200,000
- 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.
What happened
The episode as NWS FSD wrote it up.
A tornado caused severe damage to one home, lighter damage to several other homes, uprooted or severely damaged many large trees, and damaged vehicles, power lines, and small structures; all in Forestburg. The tornado caused little reported damage outside of Forestburg along its 10 mile path.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
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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- Tornado in Nebraska, June 4, 1999
- Tornado in Nebraska, June 4, 1999
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- Hail and Damaging Winds in Iowa, June 4, 1999
- Tornadoes and Hail in Illinois, June 4, 1999
- Damaging Winds in Kansas, June 4, 1999
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, June 4, 1999
- Tornado and Hail in Nebraska, June 4, 1999
- Flash Flood and Hail in Minnesota, June 4, 1999
- Flash Flood in Nebraska, June 4, 1999
- Tornadoes in Nebraska, June 4, 1999
More
Every storm in South Dakota in 1999Every state in 1999This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for South Dakota, 1999Warnings in South Dakota, June 1999
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 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5703356.