Alert archive / South Dakota / 1986
Weather alerts in South Dakota, May 1986
34 weather alerts in May 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 in May 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 34
- Warnings
- 34
- Watches
- 0
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- May 8, 198620 alerts
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
The alerts
Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Central Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 7, 4:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Miner, Sanborn | 54 min |
| May 7, 7:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Haakon, Jackson | 54 min |
| May 7, 8:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Bon Homme, Charles Mix | 53 min |
| May 7, 9:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Bon Homme | 57 min |
| May 7, 9:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Yankton | 67 min |
| May 7, 9:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Charles Mix, Gregory | 67 min |
| May 7, 10:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Hutchinson, Turner | 65 min |
| May 7, 10:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Clay, Lincoln | 65 min |
| May 7, 11:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lincoln, Minnehaha | 59 min |
| May 7, 11:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Douglas | 59 min |
| May 7, 11:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | McCook | 59 min |
| May 7, 11:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lincoln, Turner | 59 min |
| May 8, 9:37 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Dewey, Potter, Walworth | 68 min |
| May 8, 11:48 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Spink | 57 min |
| May 8, 4:30 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Hughes, Lyman, Stanley | 30 min |
| May 8, 5:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Hughes, Lyman | 51 min |
| May 8, 5:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Sully | 51 min |
| May 8, 6:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Brookings | 29 min |
| May 8, 6:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lincoln | 43 min |
| May 8, 6:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Minnehaha | 30 min |
| May 8, 6:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Hughes, Sully | 36 min |
| May 10, 5:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lake, McCook, Minnehaha, Turner | 55 min |
| May 10, 5:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Clay, Yankton | 55 min |
| May 10, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Clay, Lincoln | 60 min |
| May 10, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Moody | 60 min |
| May 10, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Minnehaha | 60 min |
| May 11, 7:17 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Corson | 28 min |
| May 11, 7:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Brule | 66 min |
| May 11, 7:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Corson | 42 min |
| May 11, 8:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Corson | 40 min |
| May 11, 9:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Todd | 3 hr |
| May 12, 1:05 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Spink | 60 min |
| May 12, 2:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Spink | 69 min |
| May 29, 7:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | McCook | 44 min |
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
| Product | Alerts |
|---|---|
| Severe storms | |
| Severe Thunderstorm Warning | 32 |
| Tornado Warning | 2 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Lincoln County5
- Minnehaha County4
- Turner County3
- Clay County3
- McCook County3
- Spink County3
- Hughes County3
- Corson County3
- Bon Homme County2
- Charles Mix County2
- Yankton County2
- Lyman County2
- Sully County2
- Miner County1
- Sanborn County1
- Haakon County1
- Jackson County1
- Gregory County1
- Hutchinson County1
- Douglas County1
- Dewey County1
- Potter County1
- Walworth County1
- Stanley County1
- Brookings County1
- Lake County1
- Moody County1
- Brule County1
- Todd County1
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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.