South Dakota

Storm History: Hyde County, South Dakota

428 episodes, 568 events since 1963

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Hyde County, South Dakota: floods, hail, damaging wind, tornadoes, winter storms, heat and the rest, with the most serious on record. Events filed by forecast zone count for every county the zone covers.

The record

Events
568
Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Damage
$8.8 million
Episodes
428

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.

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Every year

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.

By kind of event

Counted under the kind that heads each episode.

Kind of eventEventsDeathsInjuriesDamage
Hail16200$20,000
Tornado9200$1.1 million
High Wind6000
Blizzard4300
Flash Flood3600$5,000
Drought3000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill3000
Thunderstorm Wind2700
Heavy Snow2600
Winter Storm2400
Flood1500$7.7 million
Excessive Heat1100
Cold/Wind Chill400
Heat200
Winter Weather200
Strong Wind100
Dust Storm100
Ice Storm100
Wildfire100

The deadliest

None recorded.

The costliest

Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.

The largest hail

The largest stone in each episode, which may have fallen in a neighboring county of the same episode.

The strongest tornadoes

Every tornado in Hyde County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Hyde CountyEvery warning in Hyde County since 1986Every county in South Dakota

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.