Weather alerts in South Dakota, May 2008

179 weather alerts in May 2008, 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 2008. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts: 179
Warnings: 114
Watches: 13
Advisories: 28
Busiest day: May 24, 200830 alerts

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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 1, 3:18 PM CDT	Blizzard Warning	UNR	Butte, Harding, Lawrence, Meade, Pennington	24 hr
May 1, 3:18 PM CDT	Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory	UNR	Bennett, Fall River, Haakon, Jackson, Meade, Oglala Lakota and 2 more	24 hr
May 1, 3:28 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bon Homme, Clay, Hutchinson, Lincoln, Turner, Union and 1 more	92 min
May 1, 4:34 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Aurora, Beadle, Bon Homme, Brookings, Brule, Buffalo and 24 more	5 hr
May 1, 4:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Bon Homme	43 min
May 1, 5:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Bon Homme, Hutchinson, Yankton	29 min
May 1, 5:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Yankton	39 min
May 1, 5:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Hutchinson	43 min
May 1, 5:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Aurora, Davison, Douglas	42 min
May 1, 5:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Yankton	33 min
May 1, 6:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Hutchinson, Turner	47 min
May 1, 6:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Davison, Hanson, Hutchinson	42 min
May 1, 6:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Davison	34 min
May 1, 6:33 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clay, Davison, Douglas, Hanson, Hutchinson, Lincoln and 7 more	57 min
May 1, 6:36 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Turner	24 min
May 1, 6:52 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Minnehaha	38 min
May 1, 6:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Lincoln, Minnehaha	36 min
May 1, 7:08 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Turner	29 min
May 1, 7:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	McCook, Minnehaha, Turner	44 min
May 1, 7:22 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Lincoln, Minnehaha	23 min
May 1, 7:25 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	McCook, Minnehaha, Turner	35 min
May 1, 7:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Minnehaha	33 min
May 1, 7:45 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Minnehaha	30 min
May 1, 7:47 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Beadle, Brookings, Davison, Hanson, Hutchinson, Jerauld and 9 more	88 min
May 1, 7:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Minnehaha, Moody	24 min
May 1, 7:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Hand	31 min
May 1, 7:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Minnehaha	14 min
May 1, 8:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Beadle, Sanborn	36 min
May 1, 8:28 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Deuel, Grant, Roberts	92 min
May 1, 8:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Beadle, Jerauld	21 min
May 2, 4:23 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	ABR	Brown, Buffalo, Campbell, Clark, Codington, Corson and 20 more	19 hr
May 2, 2:48 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	FSD	Union	18 hr
May 2, 2:48 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	FSD	Lincoln, Union	18 hr
May 2, 3:38 PM CDT	Flood Watch	UNR	Butte, Harding, Lawrence, Meade, Pennington	4 days
May 2, 3:49 PM CDT	Wind Advisory	FSD	Aurora, Beadle, Bon Homme, Brookings, Brule, Charles Mix and 18 more	12 hr
May 4, 3:03 PM CDT	Fire Weather Watch	FSD		13 hr
May 5, 3:35 AM CDT	Red Flag Warning	FSD		16 hr
May 6, 8:21 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	UNR	Butte, Harding, Perkins	32 hr
May 6, 8:35 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	UNR	Harding	4 days
May 6, 10:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Mellette, Todd, Tripp	66 min
May 6, 10:56 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Aurora, Bon Homme, Brule, Charles Mix, Clay, Davison and 12 more	94 min
May 6, 11:30 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Tripp	48 min
May 6, 11:42 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	UNR	Butte	24 hr
May 6, 11:59 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Gregory	45 min
May 6, 12:00 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	UNR	Butte	24 hr
May 6, 12:03 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Aurora, Bon Homme, Brule, Charles Mix, Clay, Davison and 13 more	7 hr
May 6, 1:09 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Charles Mix, Gregory	51 min
May 6, 1:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Bon Homme, Douglas, Hutchinson	33 min
May 6, 1:58 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bennett	92 min
May 6, 2:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Yankton	56 min
May 6, 2:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Bon Homme	15 min
May 6, 2:22 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clay, Hutchinson, Lincoln, Turner, Union, Yankton	113 min
May 6, 2:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Clay	36 min
May 6, 3:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Union	25 min
May 6, 4:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Union	39 min
May 6, 4:24 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Clay, Lincoln, Union	36 min
May 6, 4:49 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	UNR	Butte, Lawrence, Meade	47 hr
May 6, 4:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Lincoln, Union	36 min
May 7, 4:00 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	UNR	Butte, Harding	3 days
May 8, 3:34 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	UNR	Butte, Lawrence, Meade	72 hr
May 9, 1:00 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Fall River	3 hr
May 9, 1:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Custer, Fall River	6 hr
May 9, 3:24 PM CDT	Winter Weather Advisory	ABR	Campbell, Corson, Dewey, Edmunds, McPherson, Potter and 1 more	22 hr
May 9, 3:47 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Custer, Fall River	118 min
May 9, 6:02 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bennett, Custer, Fall River, Oglala Lakota	118 min
May 10, 3:22 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	FSD	Aurora, Beadle, Bon Homme, Brookings, Brule, Charles Mix and 18 more	25 hr
May 10, 3:34 AM CDT	Flood Watch	FSD	Lincoln, Union	17 hr
May 10, 4:10 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	ABR	Brown, Buffalo, Campbell, Corson, Dewey, Edmunds and 12 more	15 hr
May 10, 4:26 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	UNR	Bennett, Butte, Custer, Haakon, Harding, Jackson and 9 more	11 hr
May 16, 3:07 PM CDT	Wind Advisory	UNR	Butte, Haakon, Harding, Lawrence, Meade, Pennington and 2 more	4 hr
May 17, 3:18 AM CDT	Red Flag Warning	ABR		17 hr
May 17, 3:37 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	UNR	Butte, Custer, Haakon, Harding, Lawrence, Meade and 3 more	12 hr
May 17, 9:50 AM CDT	Red Flag Warning	FSD		10 hr
May 17, 12:16 PM CDT	Wind Advisory	FSD	Bon Homme, Brookings, Charles Mix, Clay, Gregory, Lincoln and 5 more	8 hr
May 19, 3:23 AM CDT	Red Flag Warning	ABR		18 hr
May 19, 11:32 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	UNR	Butte, Haakon, Harding, Jackson, Meade, Mellette and 4 more	9 hr
May 19, 11:44 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	ABR	Brown, Buffalo, Campbell, Clark, Codington, Corson and 17 more	9 hr
May 19, 12:48 PM CDT	Wind Advisory	FSD	Aurora, Beadle, Bon Homme, Brookings, Brule, Charles Mix and 17 more	7 hr
May 21, 3:55 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	UNR	Bennett, Butte, Custer, Fall River, Haakon, Harding and 6 more	11 hr
May 21, 3:21 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Fall River	54 min
May 21, 3:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Custer, Fall River	7 hr
May 21, 6:33 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Custer, Fall River, Lawrence	57 min
May 21, 8:40 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Custer, Fall River	65 min
May 22, 11:15 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	UNR	Butte, Haakon, Harding, Lawrence, Meade, Pennington and 2 more	12 hr
May 22, 3:36 PM CDT	Flood Watch	UNR	Bennett, Butte, Custer, Haakon, Harding, Jackson and 9 more	42 hr
May 22, 10:16 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	UNR	Bennett, Jackson	12 hr
May 22, 10:31 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	UNR	Pennington	12 hr
May 23, 1:09 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	UNR	Haakon	12 hr
May 23, 10:30 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	UNR	Pennington	3 hr
May 23, 10:53 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	UNR	Custer	3 hr
May 23, 11:54 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	UNR	Meade	36 hr
May 23, 1:20 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	UNR	Bennett, Butte, Custer, Haakon, Jackson, Lawrence and 2 more	36 hr
May 23, 6:02 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Fall River	58 min
May 23, 6:19 PM CDT	Wind Advisory	UNR	Bennett, Fall River, Jackson, Mellette, Oglala Lakota, Todd and 1 more	4 hr
May 23, 6:37 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Fall River	23 min
May 23, 6:56 PM CDT	High Wind Warning	FSD	Brule, Charles Mix, Gregory	3 hr
May 23, 7:07 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Custer, Fall River	5 hr
May 24, 2:36 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	UNR	Haakon, Meade, Pennington, Ziebach	69 hr
May 24, 1:18 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Gregory, Haakon, Jackson, Jones, Lyman, Meade and 6 more	57 min
May 24, 2:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Todd	38 min
May 24, 2:17 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Aurora, Bon Homme, Charles Mix, Clay, Davison, Douglas and 4 more	118 min
May 24, 2:35 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Mellette	55 min
May 24, 2:39 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Aurora, Beadle, Bon Homme, Brown, Brule, Buffalo and 31 more	7 hr
May 24, 2:39 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Haakon	66 min
May 24, 3:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Ziebach	64 min
May 24, 3:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Perkins	63 min
May 24, 3:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Lyman	45 min
May 24, 3:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Buffalo, Hand, Hughes, Hyde, Lyman, Stanley	62 min
May 24, 4:11 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	UNR	Haakon, Ziebach	34 min
May 24, 4:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Hughes, Lyman	44 min
May 24, 4:46 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	UNR	Ziebach	44 min
May 24, 4:53 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Dewey	52 min
May 24, 5:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Perkins	67 min
May 24, 5:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ABR	Dewey	35 min
May 24, 5:13 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Faulk, Hand, Hyde	47 min
May 24, 5:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Hand, Hughes, Hyde	39 min
May 24, 5:39 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ABR	Dewey	36 min
May 24, 5:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Dewey	49 min
May 24, 5:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Corson	21 min
May 24, 5:59 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ABR	Hand, Hyde	31 min
May 24, 6:07 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Aurora, Beadle, Brookings, Brown, Brule, Buffalo and 39 more	113 min
May 24, 6:10 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ABR	Dewey	35 min
May 24, 6:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Corson	31 min
May 24, 6:27 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Dewey	63 min
May 24, 6:30 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ABR	Faulk, Hand, Spink	30 min
May 24, 6:36 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Brown, Edmunds, Faulk, McPherson	54 min
May 24, 7:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Campbell, Corson, Dewey, Walworth	23 min
May 24, 7:12 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	ABR	Brown	27 min
May 24, 9:01 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Brookings, Clark, Clay, Codington, Day, Deuel and 15 more	59 min
May 25, 12:21 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	UNR	Haakon, Meade, Pennington, Ziebach	18 hr
May 25, 7:34 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Deuel	26 min
May 25, 7:39 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Deuel, Grant	36 min
May 25, 7:47 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Brookings	30 min
May 25, 11:17 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	UNR	Harding	19 hr
May 25, 6:00 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	UNR	Haakon, Meade, Pennington, Ziebach	29 hr
May 26, 3:25 PM CDT	Frost Advisory	ABR	Brown, Campbell, Corson, Day, Edmunds, Grant and 4 more	13 hr
May 26, 10:34 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	UNR	Meade	12 hr
May 28, 11:41 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Aurora, Bon Homme, Brookings, Brule, Buffalo, Charles Mix and 20 more	94 min
May 29, 3:28 AM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	FSD	Clay, Union, Yankton	24 hr
May 29, 5:32 AM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bon Homme, Clay, Lincoln, Union, Yankton	118 min
May 29, 1:33 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Bennett, Fall River, Jackson, Mellette, Todd	7 hr
May 29, 3:55 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bon Homme	95 min
May 29, 3:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Butte	64 min
May 29, 4:55 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Butte	37 min
May 29, 5:07 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bon Homme, Charles Mix, Clay, Douglas, Hutchinson, Lincoln and 3 more	23 min
May 29, 5:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Fall River	60 min
May 29, 5:26 PM CDT	Tornado Watch	SPC	Bon Homme, Charles Mix, Clay, Douglas, Hutchinson, Lincoln and 3 more	6 hr
May 29, 5:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Bon Homme, Yankton	28 min
May 29, 6:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Bon Homme	14 min
May 29, 6:05 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Bon Homme	25 min
May 29, 6:06 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Bennett, Jackson	54 min
May 29, 6:16 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Bon Homme, Yankton	29 min
May 29, 6:21 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FSD	Bon Homme, Yankton	114 min
May 29, 6:29 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Bon Homme, Yankton	31 min
May 29, 6:35 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Bon Homme	25 min
May 29, 6:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Hutchinson, Turner	28 min
May 29, 6:51 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Yankton	24 min
May 29, 6:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Yankton	24 min
May 29, 6:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Bennett, Jackson, Mellette, Todd	51 min
May 29, 7:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Clay	41 min
May 29, 7:07 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Clay, Turner	23 min
May 29, 7:09 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Clay	36 min
May 29, 7:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Lawrence, Meade	60 min
May 29, 7:27 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Lincoln, Turner	20 min
May 29, 7:28 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	FSD	Clay, Union	22 min
May 29, 7:33 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Clay, Lincoln, Union	42 min
May 29, 8:02 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Clay, Union	19 min
May 29, 11:55 PM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	ABR	Brown, Clark, Codington, Day, Deuel, Edmunds and 9 more	8 hr
May 30, 1:29 AM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	FSD	Aurora, Beadle, Brookings, Davison, Hanson, Jerauld and 6 more	8 hr
May 30, 12:46 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Roberts	59 min
May 30, 5:47 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Bon Homme, Charles Mix	28 min
May 30, 6:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Yankton	30 min
May 30, 6:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Fall River	36 min
May 30, 7:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Meade, Pennington	57 min
May 30, 8:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Corson	28 min
May 30, 9:01 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Corson, Dewey, Walworth	44 min
May 31, 4:08 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Custer, Fall River	67 min
May 31, 5:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR		83 min
May 31, 6:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Custer, Pennington	48 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	72
Tornado Warning	23
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	3
Tornado Watch	5
Mesoscale Discussion	24
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	7
Flash Flood Warning	1
River Flood Warning	5
Flash Flood Watch	1
Flood Watch	3
Areal Flood Advisory	9
Winter
Blizzard Warning	1
Snow and Blowing Snow Advisory	1
Winter Weather Advisory	1
Cold
Frost Advisory	1
Wind and dust
High Wind Warning	1
Wind Advisory	14
Fire
Red Flag Warning	4
Fire Weather Watch	1
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	2

By county

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

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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.