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High Wind Watch 2, NWS Aberdeen, SD

March 10, 202618 counties in South Dakota

NWS Aberdeen, SD issued this high wind watch at Mar 10, 2026, 1:17 PM CDT for 18 counties in South Dakota. It took effect at Mar 12, 2026, 3:00 PM CDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Mar 10, 2026, 1:17 PM CDT (18:17 UTC)
In effect from
Mar 12, 2026, 3:00 PM CDT
Expired
Mar 11, 2026, 1:53 PM CDT
In force
Issued by
NWS Aberdeen, SD

Counties Brown County, SD, Buffalo County, SD, Campbell County, SD, Corson County, SD, Dewey County, SD, Edmunds County, SD, Faulk County, SD, Hand County, SD, Hughes County, SD, Hyde County, SD, Jones County, SD, Lyman County, SD, McPherson County, SD, Potter County, SD, Spink County, SD, Stanley County, SD, Sully County, SD, Walworth County, SD

The radar

The Aberdeen radar (KABR), 121 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 18:16 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 Aberdeen, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before this high wind watch went out at Mar 10, 12:37 PM CDT, 40 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 10, 12:37 PM CDT, 40 minutes before
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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.