Weather alerts in South Dakota
48,613 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state.
Weather alerts by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 48,613
- Warnings
- 28,151
- Watches
- 3,105
- Advisories
- 5,147
- Busiest year
- 20192,541 alerts
- Average year
- 1,186over 41 years on file
Over time
By year
Before late 2005 the archive holds only tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings, and from 1997 SPC's watches, so the jump that year is the archive widening, not the weather.
By month of the year
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Pennington County6,301
- Meade County5,601
- Custer County4,796
- Lawrence County4,273
- Butte County3,850
- Jackson County3,816
- Perkins County3,558
- Brown County3,539
- Haakon County3,526
- Todd County3,427
- Dewey County3,426
- Bennett County3,351
- Minnehaha County3,316
- Harding County3,313
- Edmunds County3,311
- Lyman County3,309
- Spink County3,300
- Corson County3,299
- Fall River County3,291
- Stanley County3,257
- Ziebach County3,239
- Mellette County3,200
- McPherson County3,192
- Hand County3,159
- Tripp County3,130
- Hughes County3,124
- Faulk County3,114
- Lincoln County3,108
- Roberts County3,105
- Day County3,102
- Union County3,101
- Charles Mix County3,081
- Codington County3,072
- Jones County3,035
- Walworth County3,027
- Oglala Lakota County3,008
- Sully County2,999
- Turner County2,980
- Hyde County2,970
- Marshall County2,968
26 more counties
- Potter County2,961
- Campbell County2,953
- Hutchinson County2,940
- Grant County2,898
- Clark County2,891
- McCook County2,867
- Hamlin County2,861
- Beadle County2,839
- Moody County2,838
- Brookings County2,815
- Yankton County2,802
- Aurora County2,798
- Clay County2,797
- Gregory County2,784
- Davison County2,772
- Brule County2,771
- Deuel County2,768
- Miner County2,768
- Lake County2,755
- Kingsbury County2,729
- Hanson County2,722
- Sanborn County2,716
- Buffalo County2,702
- Douglas County2,702
- Bon Homme County2,674
- Jerauld County2,583
The latest warnings
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 14, 4:09 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Aurora, Jerauld | 18 min |
| Sep 11, 9:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Clay, Union | 51 min |
| Sep 11, 7:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lincoln, McCook, Minnehaha, Turner | 22 min |
| Sep 11, 7:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Grant, Roberts | 27 min |
| Sep 11, 6:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Brookings, Lake, Moody | 51 min |
| Sep 11, 1:36 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | ABR | Buffalo, Hand, Hughes, Hyde, Jones, Lyman and 1 more | 17 hr |
| Sep 10, 12:12 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | UNR | Bennett, Custer, Fall River, Jackson, Oglala Lakota, Pennington | 31 hr |
| Sep 8, 9:23 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | ABR | Campbell, Corson, Dewey, Potter, Sully, Walworth | 10 hr |
| Sep 7, 11:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Aurora, Charles Mix, Davison, Douglas, Hanson, Hutchinson and 1 more | 50 min |
| Sep 7, 11:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lincoln, Minnehaha | 48 min |
| Sep 7, 11:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Charles Mix, Douglas | 39 min |
| Sep 7, 11:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Douglas, Hutchinson | 41 min |
Nearby
Sources
National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Rebuilt daily.