There were two confirmed tornadoes amid a flurry of warnings as storms moved through eastern South Dakota during the afternoon and evening of July 28.

Gov. Larry Rhoden plans to tour the worst of the damage in southern Lincoln County after severe weather hit the area.

The severe thunderstorms that passed through eastern South Dakota on July 28 brought powerful winds to the region.

Todd Heitkamp, a National Weather Service meteorologist, said the line of storms appeared to coalesce into a derecho around Sioux Falls.

A confirmed tornado northwest of Watertown late July 27 caused "significant damage" to a farmstead, a NWS meteorologist told the Argus Leader.

Well-known meteorologist and storm chaser Reed Timmer is in South Dakota as a July 28 storm system brings the possibility of high winds, and perhaps tornadoes, to the state.

Severe thunderstorms are expected to hit eastern South Dakota in the late afternoon July 28, potentially bringing hurricane-force winds to the region.

South Dakota is ramping up efforts to assist the federal government in deporting undocumented immigrants through a project centered on Sioux Falls.

A volunteer firefighter from Murdo died in a single-vehicle crash while responding to a grass fire the evening of July 26.

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