South Dakota

Storms in South Dakota in 2001

1,171 events in 470 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in South Dakota in 2001, with each episode’s narrative and every event in it. From 1996 the record holds 48 kinds of event with each office’s narrative; before that, tornadoes, hail and thunderstorm wind only, and before 1955 tornadoes alone.

South Dakota in 2001 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

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The year

Events
1,171
Deaths
2
Injuries
14
Damage
$40 million
Episodes
470

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
Hail50207$7.1 million
Thunderstorm Wind23903$3.9 million
Winter Storm21300
High Wind5200$50,000
Heavy Snow4000
Flood3500$2.3 million
Tornado3200$21 million
Lightning1924$629,000
Flash Flood1500$5.3 million
Blizzard900$120,000
Funnel Cloud800
Ice Storm500
Heavy Rain100
Wildfire100

Every episode, month by month

January 2001

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November 2001

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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.