Alert archive / South Dakota / 2016
Weather alerts in South Dakota, February 2016
54 weather alerts in February 2016, 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 February 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 54
- Warnings
- 13
- Watches
- 12
- Advisories
- 27
- Busiest day
- February 18, 20168 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 1, 3:38 AM CST | Blizzard Warning | FSD | Bon Homme, Clay, Hutchinson, Lincoln, McCook, Minnehaha and 4 more | 48 hr |
| Feb 1, 2:45 PM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | UNR | Custer, Fall River | 25 hr |
| Feb 1, 3:30 PM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | FSD | Brookings, Charles Mix, Davison, Douglas, Gregory, Hanson and 2 more | 33 hr |
| Feb 2, 3:24 AM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | ABR | Deuel | 20 hr |
| Feb 2, 7:50 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Union | 4 hr |
| Feb 3, 3:56 AM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | FSD | Clay, Union | 8 hr |
| Feb 5, 3:48 AM CST | High Wind Watch | UNR | Bennett, Butte, Custer, Haakon, Harding, Jackson and 8 more | 23 hr |
| Feb 5, 3:56 AM CST | High Wind Watch | ABR | Brown, Buffalo, Campbell, Corson, Dewey, Edmunds and 12 more | 24 hr |
| Feb 5, 3:57 AM CST | High Wind Watch | FSD | Aurora, Beadle, Bon Homme, Brule, Charles Mix, Davison and 6 more | 35 hr |
| Feb 5, 2:52 PM CST | High Wind Warning | UNR | Bennett, Butte, Custer, Fall River, Haakon, Harding and 10 more | 54 hr |
| Feb 5, 3:07 PM CST | Blizzard Watch | ABR | Clark, Codington, Day, Deuel, Grant, Hamlin and 2 more | 24 hr |
| Feb 5, 3:21 PM CST | Blizzard Watch | FSD | Brookings | 37 hr |
| Feb 5, 10:52 PM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | FSD | Brookings, Clay, Kingsbury, Lake, Lincoln, McCook and 5 more | 11 hr |
| Feb 5, 11:00 PM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | ABR | Codington, Deuel, Grant, Hamlin | 5 hr |
| Feb 6, 3:15 AM CST | Wind Advisory | UNR | Fall River, Oglala Lakota | 33 hr |
| Feb 6, 3:36 AM CST | High Wind Warning | ABR | Brown, Buffalo, Campbell, Clark, Corson, Day and 15 more | 44 hr |
| Feb 6, 3:05 PM CST | Blizzard Warning | ABR | Clark, Codington, Day, Deuel, Grant, Hamlin and 2 more | 24 hr |
| Feb 6, 3:15 PM CST | High Wind Warning | FSD | Brule, Charles Mix, Gregory | 30 hr |
| Feb 6, 3:15 PM CST | Wind Advisory | FSD | Aurora, Beadle, Bon Homme, Clay, Davison, Douglas and 14 more | 51 hr |
| Feb 6, 9:48 PM CST | Blizzard Warning | FSD | Brookings | 44 hr |
| Feb 7, 2:54 PM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | ABR | Codington, Deuel, Grant, Hamlin, Roberts | 27 hr |
| Feb 7, 10:21 PM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | FSD | Brookings, Lake, Lincoln, Minnehaha, Moody, Union | 29 hr |
| Feb 11, 12:10 PM CST | Wind Advisory | UNR | Butte, Custer, Lawrence, Meade, Pennington | 6 hr |
| Feb 12, 3:14 PM CST | Winter Storm Watch | ABR | Clark, Codington, Day, Deuel, Grant, Hamlin and 2 more | 12 hr |
| Feb 12, 3:14 PM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | ABR | Brown, Buffalo, Campbell, Clark, Codington, Corson and 20 more | 42 hr |
| Feb 12, 3:37 PM CST | Winter Storm Watch | FSD | Brookings, Kingsbury, Moody | 12 hr |
| Feb 12, 4:10 PM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | UNR | Butte, Custer, Fall River, Haakon, Harding, Lawrence and 4 more | 31 hr |
| Feb 13, 3:48 AM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | FSD | Aurora, Beadle, Brookings, Brule, Davison, Hanson and 10 more | 32 hr |
| Feb 13, 2:46 PM CST | High Wind Warning | UNR | Butte, Custer, Fall River, Lawrence, Meade, Pennington | 5 hr |
| Feb 13, 10:08 PM CST | Winter Storm Warning | ABR | Brown, Clark, Codington, Day, Deuel, Dewey and 9 more | 9 hr |
| Feb 15, 8:24 AM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | FSD | Brookings, Clay, Kingsbury, Lake, Lincoln, McCook and 6 more | 4 hr |
| Feb 15, 8:43 AM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | ABR | Clark, Codington, Day, Deuel, Grant, Hamlin | 4 hr |
| Feb 17, 3:02 PM CST | High Wind Watch | UNR | Butte, Haakon, Harding, Lawrence, Meade, Pennington and 2 more | 14 hr |
| Feb 17, 3:02 PM CST | High Wind Warning | UNR | Bennett, Butte, Custer, Fall River, Haakon, Harding and 9 more | 49 hr |
| Feb 18, 1:21 AM CST | High Wind Warning | UNR | Lawrence, Meade, Pennington | 39 hr |
| Feb 18, 3:38 AM CST | High Wind Watch | ABR | Campbell, Corson, Dewey, Hughes, Jones, Lyman and 4 more | 10 hr |
| Feb 18, 3:46 AM CST | High Wind Watch | FSD | Brule, Charles Mix, Gregory | 11 hr |
| Feb 18, 5:13 AM CST | High Wind Watch | UNR | Mellette, Todd, Tripp | 10 hr |
| Feb 18, 2:02 PM CST | High Wind Warning | ABR | Buffalo, Campbell, Corson, Dewey, Hughes, Hyde and 6 more | 25 hr |
| Feb 18, 2:02 PM CST | Wind Advisory | ABR | Brown, Buffalo, Clark, Codington, Day, Deuel and 10 more | 25 hr |
| Feb 18, 2:51 PM CST | High Wind Warning | FSD | Aurora, Bon Homme, Brookings, Brule, Charles Mix, Clay and 13 more | 21 hr |
| Feb 18, 2:51 PM CST | Wind Advisory | FSD | Aurora, Beadle, Bon Homme, Brookings, Brule, Charles Mix and 18 more | 24 hr |
| Feb 19, 4:30 AM CST | Wind Advisory | FSD | Aurora, Bon Homme, Clay, Davison, Douglas, Hanson and 5 more | 11 hr |
| Feb 19, 7:20 AM CST | Wind Advisory | FSD | Brookings, Lake, Lincoln, Minnehaha, Moody | 8 hr |
| Feb 22, 5:47 AM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | FSD | Bon Homme, Clay, Union, Yankton | 6 hr |
| Feb 23, 8:38 PM CST | Wind Advisory | UNR | Bennett, Butte, Custer, Fall River, Haakon, Harding and 10 more | 21 hr |
| Feb 24, 8:45 AM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | ABR | Codington, Deuel, Grant, Hamlin | 2 hr |
| Feb 26, 4:58 AM CST | Fire Weather Watch | UNR | 25 hr | |
| Feb 27, 6:12 AM CST | Red Flag Warning | UNR | 13 hr | |
| Feb 27, 5:04 PM CST | Wind Advisory | UNR | Butte, Haakon, Harding, Jackson, Lawrence, Meade and 3 more | 19 hr |
| Feb 29, 11:53 AM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | UNR | Haakon, Ziebach | 4 hr |
| Feb 29, 11:58 AM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | ABR | Buffalo, Dewey, Hughes, Jones, Lyman, Stanley and 1 more | 7 hr |
| Feb 29, 12:48 PM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | FSD | Aurora, Brule, Davison, Douglas, Hanson, Hutchinson and 6 more | 17 hr |
| Feb 29, 1:06 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Gregory, Haakon, Jackson, Jones, Lyman, Mellette and 3 more | 24 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 | |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 2 |
| Winter | |
| Blizzard Warning | 3 |
| Winter Storm Warning | 1 |
| Blizzard Watch | 2 |
| Winter Storm Watch | 2 |
| Winter Weather Advisory | 12 |
| Wind and dust | |
| High Wind Warning | 8 |
| High Wind Watch | 7 |
| Wind Advisory | 9 |
| Fire | |
| Red Flag Warning | 1 |
| Fire Weather Watch | 1 |
| Fog and smoke | |
| Dense Fog Advisory | 6 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Union County11
- Brookings County11
- Deuel County11
- Pennington County11
- Lincoln County10
- Minnehaha County10
- Moody County10
- Meade County10
- Codington County10
- Hamlin County10
- Clay County9
- McCook County9
- Turner County9
- Lake County9
- Butte County9
- Haakon County9
- Lawrence County9
- Grant County9
- Custer County8
- Davison County8
- Hanson County8
- Ziebach County8
- Clark County8
- Day County8
- Bon Homme County7
- Hutchinson County7
- Yankton County7
- Fall River County7
- Douglas County7
- Gregory County7
- Harding County7
- Perkins County7
- Dewey County7
- Jones County7
- Lyman County7
- Sully County7
- Aurora County7
- Brule County7
- Charles Mix County6
- Miner County6
26 more counties
- Jackson County6
- Mellette County6
- Todd County6
- Tripp County6
- Buffalo County6
- Hughes County6
- Hyde County6
- Potter County6
- Stanley County6
- Walworth County6
- Marshall County6
- Roberts County6
- Kingsbury County6
- Brown County5
- Campbell County5
- Corson County5
- Edmunds County5
- Faulk County5
- Hand County5
- Spink County5
- Jerauld County5
- Sanborn County5
- Bennett County4
- McPherson County4
- Beadle County4
- Oglala Lakota County4
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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.