Alert archive / South Dakota / 1997
Weather alerts in South Dakota, August 1997
122 weather alerts in August 1997, 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 August 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 122
- Warnings
- 117
- Watches
- 5
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- August 2, 199725 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 1, 4:20 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | UNR | Meade, Pennington | 4 hr |
| Aug 1, 4:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Meade, Pennington | 4 hr |
| Aug 1, 5:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Custer | 35 min |
| Aug 1, 5:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Perkins | 61 min |
| Aug 2, 12:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Pennington | 49 min |
| Aug 2, 1:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Pennington | 49 min |
| Aug 2, 1:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Custer | 45 min |
| Aug 2, 2:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Lawrence, Meade | 49 min |
| Aug 2, 3:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Pennington | 35 min |
| Aug 2, 4:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Beadle, Brown, Buffalo, Campbell, Clark, Codington and 21 more | 6 hr |
| Aug 2, 4:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Brown, Spink | 48 min |
| Aug 2, 4:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Campbell | 61 min |
| Aug 2, 4:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Sully | 62 min |
| Aug 2, 4:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Brown, Marshall | 59 min |
| Aug 2, 4:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Pennington | 45 min |
| Aug 2, 4:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Dewey | 34 min |
| Aug 2, 4:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Custer | 49 min |
| Aug 2, 5:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Spink | 50 min |
| Aug 2, 5:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | 46 min | |
| Aug 2, 5:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Potter | 65 min |
| Aug 2, 5:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Jackson | 63 min |
| Aug 2, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Brookings, Deuel, Grant | 6 hr |
| Aug 2, 5:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Marshall | 48 min |
| Aug 2, 5:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | 46 min | |
| Aug 2, 6:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Bennett | 63 min |
| Aug 2, 6:08 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Sully | 47 min |
| Aug 2, 6:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Spink | 47 min |
| Aug 2, 6:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Jackson | 32 min |
| Aug 2, 6:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Day | 63 min |
| Aug 2, 8:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Beadle | 49 min |
| Aug 2, 8:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Sanborn | 33 min |
| Aug 3, 5:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Dewey | 33 min |
| Aug 3, 6:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Dewey, Potter | 30 min |
| Aug 3, 6:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Sully | 33 min |
| Aug 3, 6:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Hand | 45 min |
| Aug 3, 7:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Hughes, Sully | 31 min |
| Aug 4, 4:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Pennington | 46 min |
| Aug 4, 5:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Meade | 47 min |
| Aug 5, 8:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Beadle, Brookings, Brown, Clark, Codington, Day and 12 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 5, 8:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Roberts | 76 min |
| Aug 5, 8:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Roberts | 76 min |
| Aug 5, 9:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Grant | 47 min |
| Aug 8, 8:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Butte, Harding | 57 min |
| Aug 8, 10:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Meade | 63 min |
| Aug 8, 10:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Butte | 63 min |
| Aug 8, 10:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Butte | 50 min |
| Aug 8, 11:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Meade | 47 min |
| Aug 9, 1:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Dewey | 60 min |
| Aug 9, 3:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Faulk, Spink | 63 min |
| Aug 9, 3:11 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Sully | 64 min |
| Aug 9, 4:16 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Hughes, Hyde, Sully | 64 min |
| Aug 9, 8:07 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Hand | 33 min |
| Aug 9, 10:02 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Clark | 48 min |
| Aug 9, 10:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Beadle | 32 min |
| Aug 9, 10:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Kingsbury | 34 min |
| Aug 13, 2:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Pennington | 63 min |
| Aug 13, 3:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Pennington | 60 min |
| Aug 13, 3:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Ziebach | 59 min |
| Aug 13, 4:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Meade | 61 min |
| Aug 13, 4:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Pennington | 61 min |
| Aug 13, 4:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Haakon, Ziebach | 63 min |
| Aug 13, 4:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Mellette | 49 min |
| Aug 13, 4:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bennett, Custer, Fall River, Haakon, Hughes, Jackson and 7 more | 5 hr |
| Aug 13, 4:58 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | UNR | Mellette | 32 min |
| Aug 13, 5:11 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Jackson | 64 min |
| Aug 13, 5:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Jones | 66 min |
| Aug 13, 5:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Pennington | 50 min |
| Aug 13, 5:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Mellette | 49 min |
| Aug 13, 5:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Haakon | 47 min |
| Aug 13, 5:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Stanley | 46 min |
| Aug 13, 7:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Hughes | 34 min |
| Aug 13, 7:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Jones | 34 min |
| Aug 13, 7:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Jones, Lyman | 31 min |
| Aug 13, 7:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Mellette | 45 min |
| Aug 13, 8:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Tripp | 49 min |
| Aug 13, 9:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Gregory | 47 min |
| Aug 14, 5:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Tripp | 51 min |
| Aug 14, 5:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Walworth | 51 min |
| Aug 14, 6:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Hughes | 31 min |
| Aug 14, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Union | 5 hr |
| Aug 18, 2:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Pennington | 44 min |
| Aug 18, 7:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Custer, Pennington | 65 min |
| Aug 18, 9:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | 45 min | |
| Aug 18, 10:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Bennett, Jackson | 64 min |
| Aug 18, 10:29 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | UNR | 4 hr | |
| Aug 19, 3:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Haakon, Pennington | 45 min |
| Aug 19, 3:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Haakon | 62 min |
| Aug 19, 3:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Perkins | 63 min |
| Aug 19, 3:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Haakon, Jackson | 61 min |
| Aug 19, 4:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Jackson | 49 min |
| Aug 19, 4:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Dewey | 32 min |
| Aug 19, 4:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Perkins | 33 min |
| Aug 19, 5:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Bennett, Todd | 63 min |
| Aug 19, 5:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Hughes, Sully | 32 min |
| Aug 19, 5:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Ziebach | 49 min |
| Aug 19, 6:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Corson | 45 min |
| Aug 19, 6:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Stanley | 34 min |
| Aug 19, 7:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Jones, Stanley | 33 min |
| Aug 26, 3:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Lawrence | 60 min |
| Aug 26, 3:48 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Lawrence | 67 min |
| Aug 26, 5:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Jackson | 60 min |
| Aug 26, 5:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Tripp | 63 min |
| Aug 26, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Pennington | 60 min |
| Aug 26, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Haakon | 65 min |
| Aug 26, 7:56 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | UNR | Haakon, Jackson | 5 hr |
| Aug 26, 8:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Mellette | 64 min |
| Aug 28, 4:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Perkins | 50 min |
| Aug 28, 5:27 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Corson | 63 min |
| Aug 29, 12:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Mellette | 62 min |
| Aug 29, 2:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Tripp | 62 min |
| Aug 29, 4:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Hand, Hyde | 49 min |
| Aug 29, 4:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Gregory | 30 min |
| Aug 29, 4:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Gregory | 31 min |
| Aug 29, 6:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Brown | 30 min |
| Aug 29, 6:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Day | 46 min |
| Aug 29, 7:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Clark | 64 min |
| Aug 29, 7:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Campbell | 66 min |
| Aug 29, 7:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Codington, Day | 65 min |
| Aug 29, 8:06 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Grant, Roberts | 64 min |
| Aug 29, 8:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Corson, Dewey, Walworth | 63 min |
| Aug 29, 9:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Brown, Edmunds | 62 min |
| Aug 30, 5:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Butte | 59 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 | 111 |
| Tornado Warning | 3 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 5 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 3 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Pennington County16
- Jackson County9
- Sully County8
- Haakon County8
- Meade County7
- Hughes County7
- Mellette County7
- Brown County6
- Jones County6
- Spink County6
- Dewey County6
- Custer County5
- Day County5
- Hand County5
- Roberts County5
- Perkins County4
- Lawrence County4
- Beadle County4
- Clark County4
- Hyde County4
- Marshall County4
- Grant County4
- Bennett County4
- Butte County4
- Stanley County4
- Tripp County4
- Campbell County3
- Codington County3
- Edmunds County3
- Faulk County3
- Kingsbury County3
- Potter County3
- Walworth County3
- Ziebach County3
- Gregory County3
- Corson County3
- Hamlin County2
- Lyman County2
- McPherson County2
- Sanborn County2
Nearby
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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.