Alert archive / South Dakota / 2003
Weather alerts in South Dakota, May 2003
70 weather alerts in May 2003, 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 2003. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 70
- Warnings
- 51
- Watches
- 4
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- May 3, 200320 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 3, 12:48 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Custer, Fall River, Lawrence | 2 hr |
| May 3, 3:16 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Dewey | 44 min |
| May 3, 3:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Dewey | 40 min |
| May 3, 3:21 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Meade | 39 min |
| May 3, 3:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Meade | 48 min |
| May 3, 3:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Dewey | 62 min |
| May 3, 4:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | UNR | Meade | 44 min |
| May 3, 4:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Fall River | 44 min |
| May 3, 4:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Dewey | 61 min |
| May 3, 4:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Meade | 61 min |
| May 3, 5:09 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beadle, Brown, Brule, Buffalo, Campbell, Clark and 24 more | 96 min |
| May 3, 5:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Stanley | 28 min |
| May 3, 5:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Pennington | 63 min |
| May 3, 5:59 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Meade | 46 min |
| May 3, 6:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Dewey, Stanley | 43 min |
| May 3, 6:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bennett, Campbell, Corson, Dewey, Edmunds, Faulk and 17 more | 6 hr |
| May 3, 6:29 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Perkins | 46 min |
| May 3, 6:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Dewey | 47 min |
| May 3, 6:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Meade | 46 min |
| May 3, 6:47 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABR | Dewey | 3 hr |
| May 3, 7:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Dewey | 48 min |
| May 3, 7:40 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | UNR | Perkins | 50 min |
| May 3, 7:45 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABR | Edmunds, Potter, Walworth | 3 hr |
| May 3, 8:35 PM CDT | Flash Flood Warning | ABR | Dewey | 3 hr |
| May 3, 9:25 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bennett, Buffalo, Campbell, Corson, Dewey, Edmunds and 13 more | 65 min |
| May 4, 9:48 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Lincoln, Minnehaha, Turner, Union, Yankton | 117 min |
| May 4, 12:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Custer | 38 min |
| May 4, 4:36 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | UNR | Todd | 39 min |
| May 4, 4:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Hughes, Stanley | 50 min |
| May 4, 4:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Mellette, Tripp | 46 min |
| May 4, 4:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Jones, Lyman | 40 min |
| May 4, 5:02 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | UNR | Tripp | 43 min |
| May 4, 5:04 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | ABR | Jones | 26 min |
| May 4, 5:14 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | UNR | Todd | 31 min |
| May 4, 5:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Stanley | 40 min |
| May 7, 2:57 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bennett, Butte, Custer, Fall River, Haakon, Harding and 7 more | 2 hr |
| May 7, 3:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Meade, Pennington | 36 min |
| May 7, 5:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Hughes | 33 min |
| May 13, 2:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Charles Mix | 43 min |
| May 13, 8:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Moody | 35 min |
| May 15, 5:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Lawrence | 43 min |
| May 15, 5:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Lawrence | 43 min |
| May 16, 4:50 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bennett, Haakon, Jackson, Jones, Mellette, Stanley | 115 min |
| May 16, 6:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Bennett | 58 min |
| May 17, 3:23 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bennett, Custer, Dewey, Fall River, Haakon, Jackson and 8 more | 3 hr |
| May 17, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bennett, Custer, Fall River, Haakon, Jackson, Oglala Lakota and 1 more | 6 hr |
| May 17, 6:19 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | 41 min | |
| May 17, 6:45 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bennett, Custer, Fall River, Faulk, Haakon, Hand and 13 more | 2 hr |
| May 18, 3:02 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bennett, Custer, Fall River, Jackson, Oglala Lakota, Pennington | 118 min |
| May 18, 5:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bennett, Jackson, Jones, Mellette, Oglala Lakota, Todd | 7 hr |
| May 23, 2:54 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bennett, Custer, Fall River, Oglala Lakota, Pennington | 2 hr |
| May 23, 4:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Haakon | 65 min |
| May 23, 4:48 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Gregory, Haakon, Jackson, Jones, Lyman, Mellette and 3 more | 57 min |
| May 23, 4:58 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Todd | 47 min |
| May 23, 5:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Haakon | 58 min |
| May 23, 5:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Jackson | 40 min |
| May 23, 5:25 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bennett, Oglala Lakota, Todd | 6 hr |
| May 23, 5:26 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | 64 min | |
| May 23, 5:33 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | UNR | Fall River | 57 min |
| May 23, 5:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Todd | 28 min |
| May 23, 6:50 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bennett, Oglala Lakota, Todd | 85 min |
| May 23, 7:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Todd | 48 min |
| May 23, 8:56 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Todd | 94 min |
| May 26, 2:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Lawrence | 61 min |
| May 26, 3:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Lawrence | 52 min |
| May 26, 5:46 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Pennington | 44 min |
| May 26, 6:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Custer | 42 min |
| May 27, 5:52 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Fall River, Oglala Lakota | 113 min |
| May 29, 2:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Clay, Lincoln, Union | 13 min |
| May 31, 6:53 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Fall River | 67 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 | 41 |
| Tornado Warning | 7 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 4 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 15 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 3 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Dewey County13
- Bennett County13
- Todd County13
- Fall River County11
- Jackson County11
- Oglala Lakota County11
- Meade County10
- Haakon County10
- Jones County10
- Stanley County10
- Pennington County10
- Custer County9
- Mellette County8
- Tripp County7
- Lawrence County6
- Hughes County6
- Lyman County6
- Potter County6
- Sully County5
- Edmunds County4
- Faulk County4
- Hyde County4
- Walworth County4
- Ziebach County4
- Campbell County3
- Corson County3
- Hand County3
- McPherson County3
- Perkins County3
- Buffalo County2
- Clay County2
- Lincoln County2
- Union County2
- Beadle County1
- Brown County1
- Brule County1
- Clark County1
- Codington County1
- Day County1
- Jerauld 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.