South Dakota

Storm History: Turner County, South Dakota

624 episodes, 787 events since 1954

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Turner 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
787
Deaths
1
Injuries
1
Damage
$157 million
Episodes
624

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
Hail20100$3.1 million
Tornado11110$18 million
Flood6600$50 million
Winter Weather6401
Drought6000$70 million
Winter Storm5400$15 million
Thunderstorm Wind4600$560,000
Blizzard4400$159,000
High Wind4100$82,000
Excessive Heat2200
Heavy Snow2000
Flash Flood2000$221,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill1500
Cold/Wind Chill1100
Ice Storm500$100,000
Heat500
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 Turner County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Turner CountyEvery warning in Turner 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.