Tornado, Bennett
- When
- July 17, 12:23 AM MST
- Where
- Bennett County, 9.01 mi NNW of Vetal
- Rating
- EFU
- Path length
- 0.01 mi
- Path width
- 2 yd
- Reported by
- Utility Company
- Coordinates
- 43.340, -101.450
No damage was reported from the tornado.
Tornado in South Dakota, July 17, 2019
Electric linemen observed a brief tornado near Vetal.
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
- 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 UNR wrote it up.
Electric linemen observed a brief tornado near Vetal.
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
- Heat in Missouri, July 17 to 21, 2019
- Excessive Heat in Illinois, July 17 to 21, 2019
- Excessive Heat in Oklahoma, July 17 to 20, 2019
- Damaging Winds in Connecticut, July 17, 2019
- Rip Current in Florida, July 17, 2019
- Tornado and Flash Flood in South Dakota, July 17, 2019
- Damaging Winds in Georgia, July 17 to 18, 2019
- Flooding and Damaging Winds in Massachusetts, July 17, 2019
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strikes in New York, July 17, 2019
- Excessive Heat in Iowa, July 17 to 20, 2019
- Damaging Winds in North Carolina, July 17, 2019
- Damaging Winds in Pennsylvania, July 17, 2019
More
Every storm in South Dakota in 2019Every state in 2019This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for South Dakota, 2019Warnings in South Dakota, July 2019
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: 846262.