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EF0 tornado in Lyman County, South Dakota

Tornado July 15, 2025 · Lyman County, South Dakota

EF0

Rating

0.0 mi

Path length

1 yd

Path width

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NOAA recorded where this tornado touched down but not where it lifted, so it appears as a point. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF0 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF0 is light damage: shingles and siding peeled, gutters torn, branches broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 65–85 mph. The rating comes from a survey of the worst damage after the storm, not from a wind measurement, so it says as much about what the tornado hit as about how strong it was.

What the National Weather Service wrote

A waterspout observed northeast of Oacoma on the Missouri River.

The wider storm

Thunderstorms during the afternoon produced flooding in Aberdeen. A separate storm that formed along the Missouri River north of Oacoma was responsible for a waterspout.

Began near Oacoma (43.8640, -99.3190).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1282558. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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