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High Wind Watch 1, NWS Sioux Falls, SD

March 13, 202516 counties in South Dakota

NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued this high wind watch at Mar 13, 2025, 3:30 AM CDT for 16 counties in South Dakota. It took effect at Mar 14, 2025, 10:00 PM CDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 13, 2025, 3:30 AM CDT (08:30 UTC)
In effect from: Mar 14, 2025, 10:00 PM CDT
Expired: Mar 14, 2025, 3:21 AM CDT
In force
Issued by: NWS Sioux Falls, SD

Counties Aurora County, SD, Beadle County, SD, Bon Homme County, SD, Brule County, SD, Charles Mix County, SD, Davison County, SD, Douglas County, SD, Gregory County, SD, Hanson County, SD, Hutchinson County, SD, Jerauld County, SD, Kingsbury County, SD, McCook County, SD, Miner County, SD, Sanborn County, SD, Yankton County, SD

The radar

The Sioux Falls radar (KFSD), 114 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 08:28 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this high wind watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Sioux Falls, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before this high wind watch went out at Mar 12, 10:10 PM CDT, 5 hours 20 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 12, 10:10 PM CDT, 5 hours 20 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Mar 12, 7:32 PM CDT, 7 hours 58 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Sioux Falls, SD issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 13, 3:07 PM CDT	Winter Storm Watch	FSD	Beadle, Brookings, Davison, Hanson, Hutchinson, Kingsbury and 8 more	23 hr

Nearby

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.