South Dakota

Storm History: Kingsbury County, South Dakota

561 episodes, 712 events since 1958

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Kingsbury 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
712
Deaths
3
Injuries
6
Damage
$60 million
Episodes
561

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.

Open the live radar over Kingsbury County

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
Hail18402$4.7 million
Tornado11624$7.1 million
Thunderstorm Wind5500$597,000
Winter Weather5400
High Wind4600$77,000
Winter Storm4500
Blizzard4400$156,000
Drought4000$13 million
Flash Flood2600$60,000
Heavy Snow2100$15,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill2100
Excessive Heat1900
Cold/Wind Chill1500
Ice Storm800$1.0 million
Flood700$34 million
Lightning500$216,000
Heat200
Heavy Rain100
Dense Fog110
Wildfire100
Strong Wind100

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 Kingsbury County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Kingsbury CountyEvery warning in Kingsbury 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.