Tornado, Oglala Lakota
- When
- June 10, 2:10 PM MST
- Where
- Oglala Lakota County, 13 mi W of Pine Ridge
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 10 yd
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 43.033, -102.817
Brief tornado touchdown near Slim Buttes.
Tornado and Hail in South Dakota, June 10, 2006
Severe thunderstorms moved across southern Shannon and Bennett Counties. These storms produced large hail across southeast Shannon County and western Bennett 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
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 4
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.
Severe thunderstorms moved across southern Shannon and Bennett Counties. These storms produced large hail across southeast Shannon County and western Bennett County. A brief tornado touched down near Slim Buttes. No injuries or damage were reported.
The radar
The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 121 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:09 UTC.
Event by event
3 hail, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Oglala Lakota
- When
- June 10, 2:20 PM MST
- Where
- Oglala Lakota County, 15 mi W of Pine Ridge
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 43.033, -102.867
Hail, Oglala Lakota
- When
- June 10, 2:25 PM MST
- Where
- Oglala Lakota County, 4 mi S of Porcupine
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 43.183, -102.333
Hail, Bennett
- When
- June 10, 2:45 PM MST
- Where
- Bennett County, 5 mi SW of Swett
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 43.117, -102.017
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.
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
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- Flooding in Maine, June 10 to 13, 2006
More
Every storm in South Dakota in 2006Every state in 2006This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for South Dakota, 2006Warnings in South Dakota, June 2006
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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5516004, 5516002, 5516003, 5516005.