Alert archive / South Dakota / 1988
Weather alerts in South Dakota, May 1988
25 weather alerts in May 1988, 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 1988. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 25
- Warnings
- 25
- Watches
- 0
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- May 26, 198810 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 6, 7:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Mellette | 49 min |
| May 6, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Stanley | 60 min |
| May 6, 9:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Corson, Dewey | 61 min |
| May 7, 1:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Codington | 65 min |
| May 7, 1:55 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Day | 35 min |
| May 7, 2:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Marshall | 69 min |
| May 20, 3:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Hutchinson, Yankton | 57 min |
| May 20, 3:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Clay, Yankton | 38 min |
| May 20, 4:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Clay, Hutchinson, McCook, Turner, Yankton | 62 min |
| May 20, 4:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Hanson | 62 min |
| May 25, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Lyman | 60 min |
| May 25, 7:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Buffalo, Hand | 58 min |
| May 25, 8:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Buffalo | 57 min |
| May 25, 8:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Lyman | 69 min |
| May 25, 9:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Lyman | 27 min |
| May 25, 10:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Lyman | 65 min |
| May 25, 10:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Tripp | 65 min |
| May 25, 10:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Brule | 65 min |
| May 26, 2:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Pennington | 34 min |
| May 26, 3:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Custer, Pennington | 30 min |
| May 26, 8:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Brown, Edmunds, McPherson | 58 min |
| May 26, 9:04 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Edmunds, Faulk | 56 min |
| May 29, 12:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Clay | 50 min |
| May 29, 2:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lake, McCook, Minnehaha | 69 min |
| May 31, 5:07 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | FSD | Lincoln, Turner | 28 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 | 23 |
| Tornado Warning | 2 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Lyman County4
- Yankton County3
- Clay County3
- Hutchinson County2
- McCook County2
- Turner County2
- Buffalo County2
- Pennington County2
- Edmunds County2
- Mellette County1
- Stanley County1
- Corson County1
- Dewey County1
- Codington County1
- Day County1
- Marshall County1
- Hanson County1
- Hand County1
- Tripp County1
- Brule County1
- Custer County1
- Brown County1
- McPherson County1
- Faulk County1
- Lake County1
- Minnehaha County1
- Lincoln County1
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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.