Alert archive / South Dakota / 2015
Weather alerts in South Dakota, April 2015
85 weather alerts in April 2015, 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 April 2015. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 85
- Warnings
- 40
- Watches
- 15
- Advisories
- 10
- Busiest day
- April 24, 201521 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 1, 3:40 AM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | FSD | 11 hr | |
| Apr 1, 3:07 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | FSD | 28 hr | |
| Apr 1, 3:27 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | ABR | 27 hr | |
| Apr 1, 3:50 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Lincoln, Union | 115 min |
| Apr 1, 5:57 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Union | 7 hr |
| Apr 2, 5:03 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | UNR | Butte, Harding, Meade, Perkins, Ziebach | 14 hr |
| Apr 2, 10:56 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | ABR | Brown, Campbell, Clark, Codington, Corson, Day and 12 more | 8 hr |
| Apr 3, 4:03 AM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | FSD | 12 hr | |
| Apr 3, 4:39 AM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | UNR | 23 hr | |
| Apr 3, 3:39 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | FSD | 28 hr | |
| Apr 4, 3:23 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | ABR | 17 hr | |
| Apr 4, 3:49 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | UNR | 16 hr | |
| Apr 10, 2:36 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | FSD | 13 hr | |
| Apr 10, 2:51 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | ABR | 12 hr | |
| Apr 10, 3:46 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | UNR | 12 hr | |
| Apr 11, 2:52 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | ABR | 17 hr | |
| Apr 11, 3:19 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | FSD | 17 hr | |
| Apr 11, 3:59 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | UNR | 16 hr | |
| Apr 11, 2:59 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | FSD | 13 hr | |
| Apr 11, 3:06 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | ABR | 13 hr | |
| Apr 11, 3:50 PM CDT | Wind Advisory | UNR | Butte, Harding, Meade, Perkins | 28 hr |
| Apr 11, 3:53 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | UNR | 12 hr | |
| Apr 12, 3:30 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | FSD | 17 hr | |
| Apr 12, 3:41 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | ABR | 16 hr | |
| Apr 12, 1:24 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | ABR | 14 hr | |
| Apr 12, 2:29 PM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | FSD | 13 hr | |
| Apr 12, 4:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Clay, Lincoln, Turner, Union | 30 min |
| Apr 12, 5:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Minnehaha | 25 min |
| Apr 12, 5:42 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Union | 63 min |
| Apr 12, 6:02 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Union | 28 min |
| Apr 13, 3:18 AM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | ABR | 24 hr | |
| Apr 13, 3:18 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | ABR | 17 hr | |
| Apr 13, 3:37 AM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | FSD | 24 hr | |
| Apr 13, 3:37 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | FSD | 16 hr | |
| Apr 13, 3:59 AM CDT | Fire Weather Watch | UNR | 11 hr | |
| Apr 13, 3:21 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | UNR | 30 hr | |
| Apr 14, 3:31 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | ABR | 17 hr | |
| Apr 14, 3:33 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | FSD | 16 hr | |
| Apr 14, 10:52 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | UNR | Bennett, Butte, Custer, Fall River, Haakon, Harding and 10 more | 18 hr |
| Apr 14, 11:11 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | ABR | Buffalo, Campbell, Corson, Dewey, Edmunds, Faulk and 10 more | 23 hr |
| Apr 14, 11:45 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | FSD | Aurora, Brule, Charles Mix, Douglas, Gregory, Jerauld | 22 hr |
| Apr 15, 3:51 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | ABR | 16 hr | |
| Apr 19, 3:37 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | ABR | Corson, Dewey, Hughes, Jones, Lyman, Stanley and 1 more | 11 hr |
| Apr 19, 4:20 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | UNR | Bennett, Butte, Haakon, Harding, Jackson, Lawrence and 7 more | 16 hr |
| Apr 19, 2:34 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | FSD | 29 hr | |
| Apr 19, 2:38 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | ABR | 29 hr | |
| Apr 20, 3:31 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | FSD | Aurora, Beadle, Bon Homme, Brookings, Brule, Charles Mix and 18 more | 15 hr |
| Apr 20, 3:33 AM CDT | Wind Advisory | ABR | Brown, Buffalo, Campbell, Clark, Codington, Corson and 17 more | 15 hr |
| Apr 21, 3:30 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | ABR | 17 hr | |
| Apr 21, 3:44 AM CDT | Red Flag Warning | FSD | 16 hr | |
| Apr 21, 3:53 AM CDT | Freeze Warning | FSD | Aurora, Beadle, Bon Homme, Brookings, Brule, Charles Mix and 13 more | 28 hr |
| Apr 22, 3:39 AM CDT | Freeze Warning | FSD | Beadle, Brookings, Clay, Hanson, Kingsbury, Lake and 8 more | 28 hr |
| Apr 23, 5:15 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | UNR | Pennington | 45 min |
| Apr 23, 6:55 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | UNR | Bennett | 50 min |
| Apr 23, 7:08 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | UNR | Pennington | 52 min |
| Apr 23, 7:12 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | UNR | Bennett | 48 min |
| Apr 23, 7:14 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | UNR | Haakon | 46 min |
| Apr 23, 7:22 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Haakon, Jackson, Pennington | 53 min |
| Apr 23, 8:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | UNR | Jackson | 24 min |
| Apr 23, 8:19 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | UNR | Haakon | 41 min |
| Apr 23, 8:41 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | UNR | Haakon | 49 min |
| Apr 23, 8:49 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Stanley | 41 min |
| Apr 23, 9:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Stanley | 32 min |
| Apr 23, 10:30 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ABR | Potter | 45 min |
| Apr 24, 4:48 AM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ABR | Roberts | 42 min |
| Apr 24, 2:02 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | UNR | Custer | 88 min |
| Apr 24, 5:14 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | UNR | Mellette | 31 min |
| Apr 24, 5:22 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ABR | Hand | 23 min |
| Apr 24, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ABR | Hand | 30 min |
| Apr 24, 5:30 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Davison, Hanson, Sanborn | 30 min |
| Apr 24, 5:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Davison, Douglas, Hutchinson | 39 min |
| Apr 24, 6:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Davison, Sanborn | 36 min |
| Apr 24, 6:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Aurora, Davison, Douglas | 50 min |
| Apr 24, 6:31 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | FSD | Davison, Hanson, Miner, Sanborn | 6 hr |
| Apr 24, 6:37 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | FSD | Aurora, Davison, Douglas, Hanson, Hutchinson | 12 hr |
| Apr 24, 7:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Aurora, Jerauld | 11 min |
| Apr 24, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | FSD | Lake, McCook, Miner | 30 min |
| Apr 24, 7:30 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | ABR | Jones | 30 min |
| Apr 24, 7:55 PM CDT | Areal Flood Warning | FSD | Hanson, Lake, McCook, Miner | 12 hr |
| Apr 25, 4:27 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | CYS | Fall River | 18 min |
| Apr 25, 4:38 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | UNR | Fall River | 22 min |
| Apr 25, 4:39 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | CYS | Fall River | 36 min |
| Apr 25, 5:35 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | UNR | Fall River | 40 min |
| Apr 29, 2:51 PM CDT | Red Flag Warning | ABR | 28 hr | |
| Apr 30, 1:51 PM CDT | Special Weather Statement | UNR | Custer | 39 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 | 14 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 1 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 2 |
| Special Weather Statement | 18 |
| Flooding | |
| Areal Flood Warning | 3 |
| Cold | |
| Freeze Warning | 2 |
| Wind and dust | |
| Wind Advisory | 10 |
| Fire | |
| Red Flag Warning | 21 |
| Fire Weather Watch | 14 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Davison County8
- Union County7
- Hanson County7
- Haakon County6
- Aurora County6
- Douglas County6
- Miner County6
- Sanborn County6
- Clay County5
- Fall River County5
- Pennington County5
- Lake County5
- McCook County5
- Lincoln County4
- Butte County4
- Harding County4
- Meade County4
- Perkins County4
- Corson County4
- Dewey County4
- Potter County4
- Minnehaha County4
- Bennett County4
- Jackson County4
- Hand County4
- Stanley County4
- Jerauld County4
- Hutchinson County4
- Ziebach County3
- Campbell County3
- Edmunds County3
- Faulk County3
- McPherson County3
- Roberts County3
- Walworth County3
- Turner County3
- Custer County3
- Mellette County3
- Hughes County3
- Jones County3
26 more counties
- Sully County3
- Brule County3
- Charles Mix County3
- Gregory County3
- Beadle County3
- Brookings County3
- Kingsbury County3
- Moody County3
- Brown County2
- Clark County2
- Codington County2
- Day County2
- Deuel County2
- Grant County2
- Hamlin County2
- Marshall County2
- Spink County2
- Lawrence County2
- Todd County2
- Tripp County2
- Buffalo County2
- Hyde County2
- Lyman County2
- Bon Homme County2
- Oglala Lakota County1
- Yankton 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.