South Dakota

Storms in South Dakota in 2004

1,300 events in 610 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in South Dakota in 2004, 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 2004 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
1,300
Deaths
0
Injuries
2
Damage
$18 million
Episodes
610

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
Hail73100$2.0 million
Thunderstorm Wind22901$2.3 million
High Wind12900$1.0 million
Winter Storm5100
Winter Weather4400
Heavy Snow3800
Tornado3500$146,000
Flash Flood2300$13 million
Lightning1401$111,000
Flood300
Heavy Rain100
Dust Devil100$4,000
Funnel Cloud100

Every episode, month by month

January 2004

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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.