Alert archive / South Dakota / 2002
Weather alerts in South Dakota, May 2002
36 weather alerts in May 2002, 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 2002. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 36
- Warnings
- 33
- Watches
- 3
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- May 7, 200212 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 5, 4:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bon Homme, Charles Mix, Clay, Douglas, Hutchinson, Lincoln and 3 more | 7 hr |
| May 5, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | McCook | 31 min |
| May 5, 5:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Bon Homme, Charles Mix | 38 min |
| May 5, 5:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Brookings | 35 min |
| May 5, 6:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | McCook, Minnehaha | 43 min |
| May 5, 6:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lake, Moody | 36 min |
| May 5, 6:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Minnehaha | 30 min |
| May 5, 7:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Brookings, Moody | 25 min |
| May 7, 3:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Tripp | 37 min |
| May 7, 3:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Gregory | 27 min |
| May 7, 3:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Charles Mix | 37 min |
| May 7, 4:23 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Aurora | 52 min |
| May 7, 4:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Tripp | 46 min |
| May 7, 4:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Sanborn | 37 min |
| May 7, 4:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Davison | 32 min |
| May 7, 5:41 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Aurora | 34 min |
| May 7, 6:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Hutchinson | 35 min |
| May 7, 6:31 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Yankton | 29 min |
| May 7, 6:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Yankton | 21 min |
| May 7, 6:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Turner | 38 min |
| May 7, 7:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | McCook | 32 min |
| May 7, 7:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lincoln, Turner | 56 min |
| May 8, 12:17 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Brookings, Kingsbury | 43 min |
| May 8, 11:04 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FSD | Brookings, Kingsbury | 3 hr |
| May 8, 11:35 AM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FSD | Moody | 3 hr |
| May 26, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Charles Mix | 30 min |
| May 26, 4:24 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Bon Homme | 36 min |
| May 26, 4:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Turner | 34 min |
| May 26, 5:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lincoln, Minnehaha | 51 min |
| May 26, 5:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Hutchinson | 51 min |
| May 27, 2:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bennett, Custer, Fall River, Haakon, Jackson, Jones and 8 more | 6 hr |
| May 27, 5:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Bennett | 46 min |
| May 27, 6:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Todd | 48 min |
| May 27, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bennett, Charles Mix, Gregory, Todd, Tripp | 5 hr |
| May 27, 10:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Pennington | 49 min |
| May 28, 11:14 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | FSD | Clay, Union | 6 hr |
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 | 30 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 2 |
| Tornado Watch | 1 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 3 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Charles Mix County5
- Turner County4
- Brookings County4
- Bon Homme County3
- Hutchinson County3
- Lincoln County3
- Yankton County3
- McCook County3
- Minnehaha County3
- Moody County3
- Tripp County3
- Bennett County3
- Todd County3
- Clay County2
- Union County2
- Gregory County2
- Aurora County2
- Kingsbury County2
- Pennington County2
- Douglas County1
- Lake County1
- Sanborn County1
- Davison County1
- Custer County1
- Fall River County1
- Haakon County1
- Jackson County1
- Jones County1
- Lawrence County1
- Meade County1
- Mellette County1
- Oglala Lakota County1
- Stanley County1
- Sully 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. Rebuilt daily.