South Dakota

Storms in South Dakota in 2023

2,024 events in 349 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in South Dakota in 2023, 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 2023 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
2,024
Deaths
4
Injuries
18
Damage
$153 million
Episodes
349

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
Hail46700$1.5 million
Thunderstorm Wind28300$218,000
Winter Weather282312
Drought16100$144 million
Flood12700$6.2 million
Blizzard11903$500,000
Winter Storm11600
Excessive Heat10610
High Wind7600$4,000
Strong Wind7300
Heavy Snow5500
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill5000
Heat2700
Ice Storm2200
Cold/Wind Chill1800
Tornado1800$328,000
Flash Flood1100$270,000
Dense Smoke1000
Funnel Cloud100
Freezing Fog100
Dense Fog103

Every episode, month by month

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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.