NOTE: Long Load Warning - Many of these sites feature many large photographs.

Members of the South Dakota Public Broadcasting staff recorded video footage of the damage on June 1, 1998. The following sets of pages will take you street by street through the City of Spencer, each page contains a still image from that segment  and a link to the video.

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A large collection of damage photos, and maps from NOAA's Whirlwind Project. This is by far the best and most complete. Photographs of the Tornado.

Paulette Cott was the reporter on hand for South Dakota Public Broadcasting. Follow this link to read her personal account of covering the storm.

Argus Leader photo and story archives. Excellent photography.

FEMA photos of Spencer

CNN Coverage of the Spencer Tornado

South Dakota Division of Insurance photos

Guard assists in Spencer cleanup - by Randy Dockendorf Yankton Press and Dakotan

Prairie Pictures' cinematographer and storm chaser Martin Lisius photographed the first-ever violent class tornado on 35 mm motion picture film(!).

Return to SDPB Online's Spencer Tornado Website

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