Weather alerts in South Dakota, 2005

1,299 weather alerts in 2005, 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 2005. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts: 1,299
Warnings: 854
Watches: 103
Advisories: 80
Busiest month: June393 alerts
Busiest day: June 8, 200567 alerts

Over time

By month

The alerts

1,299 alerts are too many to list on one page. Narrow it to a product above, to a month in the chart, or to a county.

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	725
Tornado Warning	52
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	68
Tornado Watch	19
Mesoscale Discussion	262
Flooding
Flash Flood Warning	55
Winter
Blizzard Warning	3
Winter Storm Warning	8
Winter Storm Watch	8
Blowing Snow Advisory	7
Freezing Rain Advisory	1
Snow Advisory	5
Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory	5
Winter Weather Advisory	16
Cold
Freeze Warning	6
Frost Advisory	2
Wind Chill Advisory	3
Wind and dust
High Wind Warning	5
High Wind Watch	8
Wind Advisory	30
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	10
Freezing Fog Advisory	1

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

26 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

Nearby

Alerts in force now Tornadoes on record The radar archive 2004 2006

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.