But that happened Monday outside of Watertown, South Dakota. There was one thunderstorm moving through the area. This was producing lightning, rain and even pea-sized hail. Then the unthinkable.

“A lot of us go hit,” said Joann DeSantis, who runs DeSantis Farm in Watertown alongside her husband. “We’ve never had rain down here like this. We’ve never had this much rain.

The forecast on Monday hardly featured a chance of thunderstorms in South Dakota. So when a tornado touched down in Watertown in the eastern part of the state, it surprised even a seasoned storm ...

A late winter storm brought high winds and snow to parts of eastern South Dakota on Tuesday and Wednesday, with more expected later in the week.