Alert archive / South Dakota / 1997
Weather alerts in South Dakota, May 1997
14 weather alerts in May 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 May 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 14
- Warnings
- 13
- Watches
- 1
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- May 18, 19976 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 30, 9:01 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Meade | 59 min |
| May 4, 6:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Harding, Perkins | 45 min |
| May 4, 6:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Corson | 31 min |
| May 4, 7:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Corson | 46 min |
| May 4, 8:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Campbell, Walworth | 29 min |
| May 4, 8:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | McPherson | 27 min |
| May 4, 9:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Brown | 32 min |
| May 16, 3:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | 16 min | |
| May 17, 7:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Brown, Marshall | 32 min |
| May 17, 7:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Brookings, Brown, Clark, Codington, Day, Deuel and 11 more | 6 hr |
| May 17, 7:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Marshall | 19 min |
| May 17, 8:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Marshall | 33 min |
| May 17, 8:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Marshall, Roberts | 47 min |
| May 17, 9:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Roberts | 49 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 | 10 |
| Tornado Warning | 3 |
| Tornado Watch | 1 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Marshall County5
- Brown County3
- Roberts County3
- Corson County2
- Meade County1
- Harding County1
- Perkins County1
- Campbell County1
- Walworth County1
- McPherson County1
- Brookings County1
- Clark County1
- Codington County1
- Day County1
- Deuel County1
- Grant County1
- Hamlin County1
- Hanson County1
- Kingsbury County1
- Lake County1
- McCook County1
- Miner County1
- Minnehaha County1
- Moody County1
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.