South Dakota

Storm History: Jerauld County, South Dakota

446 episodes, 529 events since 1957

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Jerauld 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
529
Deaths
1
Injuries
3
Damage
$34 million
Episodes
446

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
Hail10500$3.1 million
Tornado5903$5.6 million
High Wind4700$97,000
Drought4700$13 million
Blizzard4600$131,000
Winter Weather4600
Winter Storm4100
Thunderstorm Wind3800$1.4 million
Heavy Snow1800
Excessive Heat1700
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill1600
Flash Flood1500$100,000
Cold/Wind Chill1400
Flood600$9.3 million
Ice Storm400$1.0 million
Heat400
Lightning200
Strong Wind200
Wildfire100
Dense Fog110

The deadliest

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 Jerauld County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Jerauld CountyEvery warning in Jerauld 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.