Weather alerts in South Dakota, May 2019

186 weather alerts in May 2019, 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 2019. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts: 186
Warnings: 91
Watches: 6
Advisories: 24
Busiest day: May 31, 201922 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, 12:30 PM CDT	Winter Weather Advisory	UNR	Custer, Lawrence, Meade, Pennington	4 hr
May 2, 5:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Bennett	38 min
May 2, 6:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Jackson	55 min
May 4, 3:44 AM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	FSD	Bon Homme, Clay, Hanson, Hutchinson, Lincoln, McCook and 5 more	5 hr
May 6, 6:03 PM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	UNR	Custer, Lawrence, Meade, Pennington	16 hr
May 7, 3:35 PM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	UNR	Custer, Fall River, Lawrence, Meade, Pennington	18 hr
May 7, 3:43 PM CDT	Winter Weather Advisory	UNR	Custer, Lawrence, Meade, Pennington	27 hr
May 8, 9:39 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FSD	Lincoln, Minnehaha	27 days
May 8, 9:00 PM CDT	Winter Weather Advisory	ABR	Deuel	3 hr
May 9, 3:38 AM CDT	Frost Advisory	FSD	Aurora, Beadle, Bon Homme, Brookings, Brule, Charles Mix and 18 more	28 hr
May 9, 9:43 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FSD	Moody	21 days
May 9, 9:43 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FSD	Turner	4 days
May 9, 9:43 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FSD	Clay	7 days
May 10, 2:50 PM CDT	Wind Advisory	UNR	Butte, Harding, Meade, Pennington, Perkins	28 hr
May 11, 11:42 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Pennington	33 min
May 11, 2:38 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ABR	Spink	4 days
May 11, 2:38 PM CDT	Frost Advisory	UNR	Custer, Fall River, Oglala Lakota	17 hr
May 13, 3:40 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Meade	20 min
May 13, 4:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Meade	14 min
May 13, 4:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Haakon	23 min
May 13, 5:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Haakon	41 min
May 13, 6:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Haakon	30 min
May 13, 6:37 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Jackson	38 min
May 13, 6:49 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ABR	Jones	41 min
May 13, 9:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	FSD	Gregory	42 min
May 14, 3:34 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Lawrence	26 min
May 14, 3:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Meade	31 min
May 14, 6:00 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bennett, Butte, Custer, Fall River, Jackson, Lawrence and 3 more	90 min
May 14, 6:10 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Lawrence, Pennington	32 min
May 14, 6:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Fall River	45 min
May 14, 6:18 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Custer	27 min
May 14, 7:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Lawrence	38 min
May 14, 7:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Custer	49 min
May 15, 3:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Brown, Campbell, Corson, Edmunds, McPherson, Walworth	6 hr
May 15, 4:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Fall River	53 min
May 15, 5:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Oglala Lakota	48 min
May 15, 6:07 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Oglala Lakota	38 min
May 15, 6:08 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Brown, Campbell, Corson, Edmunds, McPherson, Walworth	2 hr
May 15, 7:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Lawrence	40 min
May 15, 7:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Lawrence	52 min
May 15, 7:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Pennington	43 min
May 15, 8:05 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Brown, Campbell, Edmunds, McPherson, Walworth	115 min
May 15, 10:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ABR	Marshall	39 min
May 15, 11:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Marshall, Roberts	32 min
May 16, 6:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR		33 min
May 17, 10:16 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FSD	Turner	6 days
May 17, 10:16 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FSD	Clay	21 days
May 17, 11:14 AM CDT	Flood Watch	UNR	Butte, Harding, Meade, Perkins, Ziebach	25 hr
May 17, 4:38 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Aurora, Beadle, Bennett, Bon Homme, Brule, Buffalo and 14 more	7 hr
May 17, 6:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Bennett	37 min
May 17, 6:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Mellette, Todd	22 min
May 17, 7:53 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Aurora, Beadle, Bennett, Bon Homme, Brule, Buffalo and 14 more	2 hr
May 17, 8:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Todd	27 min
May 17, 8:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Brookings	31 min
May 17, 8:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Tripp	48 min
May 17, 9:01 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	FSD	Brookings	94 min
May 17, 9:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Tripp	48 min
May 17, 11:33 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	UNR	Tripp	9 hr
May 18, 9:40 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ABR	Hamlin	12 days
May 18, 10:03 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FSD	Brookings	21 days
May 18, 10:03 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FSD	Davison	14 days
May 19, 3:22 AM CDT	Frost Advisory	FSD	Beadle, Brookings, Jerauld, Kingsbury, Lake, Miner and 2 more	29 hr
May 19, 3:23 AM CDT	Frost Advisory	ABR	Buffalo, Corson, Dewey, Hand, Hughes, Hyde and 2 more	28 hr
May 19, 3:23 AM CDT	Freeze Warning	ABR	Brown, Campbell, Clark, Codington, Day, Deuel and 9 more	28 hr
May 19, 3:45 AM CDT	Winter Storm Watch	UNR	Custer, Lawrence, Meade, Pennington	24 hr
May 19, 3:47 PM CDT	Flood Watch	UNR	Bennett, Butte, Custer, Fall River, Haakon, Harding and 10 more	72 hr
May 19, 7:28 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	FSD	Moody	13 days
May 20, 3:56 AM CDT	Winter Storm Warning	UNR	Custer, Lawrence, Meade, Pennington	54 hr
May 20, 8:50 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FSD	Minnehaha, Moody	14 days
May 20, 2:58 PM CDT	Wind Advisory	FSD	Aurora, Beadle, Bon Homme, Brookings, Brule, Charles Mix and 18 more	32 hr
May 20, 3:17 PM CDT	Wind Advisory	ABR	Brown, Buffalo, Campbell, Clark, Codington, Corson and 20 more	34 hr
May 20, 3:19 PM CDT	Winter Weather Advisory	UNR	Lawrence, Meade, Pennington	43 hr
May 21, 9:54 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FSD	Turner	14 days
May 21, 9:54 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FSD	Clay	16 days
May 21, 3:08 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	UNR	Custer, Meade, Pennington	71 hr
May 21, 4:04 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	UNR	Jackson	3 days
May 21, 4:04 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	UNR	Jones, Mellette	4 days
May 21, 4:04 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	UNR	Lyman, Tripp	5 days
May 21, 5:18 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	UNR	Oglala Lakota, Pennington	5 days
May 21, 5:26 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	UNR	Haakon, Jackson	69 hr
May 21, 6:12 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	UNR	Bennett, Jackson, Mellette, Todd, Tripp	68 hr
May 22, 3:41 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ABR	Stanley	65 hr
May 22, 4:34 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	UNR	Harding	5 days
May 22, 6:37 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FSD	Lincoln	21 days
May 22, 7:04 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ABR	Spink	12 days
May 22, 8:34 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ABR	Hand	6 hr
May 22, 9:55 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	UNR	Haakon, Ziebach	3 days
May 22, 10:13 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	UNR	Haakon	67 hr
May 22, 11:28 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	UNR	Butte, Lawrence, Meade, Pennington, Ziebach	3 days
May 22, 11:38 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	UNR	Butte, Harding, Meade, Perkins, Ziebach	51 hr
May 22, 1:01 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	UNR	Meade	35 hr
May 22, 2:08 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ABR	Hand	22 hr
May 22, 4:03 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	UNR	Meade, Pennington	8 hr
May 22, 4:03 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	UNR	Meade	24 hr
May 22, 6:04 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	UNR	Butte	22 hr
May 23, 6:56 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ABR	Roberts	14 hr
May 23, 7:58 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FSD	Brookings	21 days
May 23, 4:30 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	UNR	Fall River	45 hr
May 24, 9:27 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	UNR	Perkins	24 hr
May 24, 9:32 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	ABR	Codington	49 hr
May 24, 12:10 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	FSD	Brule	29 days
May 24, 6:31 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	UNR	Pennington	10 hr
May 24, 11:38 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ABR	Spink	4 days
May 24, 11:53 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	UNR	Custer	11 hr
May 25, 3:54 AM CDT	Flood Watch	UNR	Bennett, Butte, Custer, Fall River, Haakon, Jackson and 8 more	4 days
May 25, 1:10 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ABR	Spink	30 hr
May 26, 5:23 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Custer	52 min
May 26, 5:59 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Oglala Lakota	31 min
May 26, 6:11 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Oglala Lakota	34 min
May 26, 6:43 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Oglala Lakota	47 min
May 26, 2:24 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	UNR	Oglala Lakota	50 hr
May 26, 2:58 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Butte	32 min
May 26, 3:07 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Butte, Custer, Fall River, Lawrence	113 min
May 26, 3:35 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR		25 min
May 26, 4:05 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Ziebach	25 min
May 26, 4:18 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Butte	45 min
May 26, 4:50 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Meade	25 min
May 26, 4:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Butte	20 min
May 26, 5:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Lawrence	24 min
May 26, 5:48 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Ziebach	27 min
May 26, 6:04 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR		41 min
May 26, 6:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Lawrence	16 min
May 26, 6:21 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Meade	24 min
May 26, 7:14 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	UNR	Meade	3 hr
May 26, 7:28 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Gregory	47 min
May 26, 7:53 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ABR	Spink	15 hr
May 26, 8:12 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Ziebach	33 min
May 26, 8:16 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	UNR	Meade, Perkins, Ziebach	3 hr
May 26, 8:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ABR	Stanley	53 min
May 26, 8:36 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	UNR	Meade, Ziebach	3 hr
May 26, 10:09 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	UNR	Haakon, Meade, Ziebach	6 hr
May 27, 2:16 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	UNR	Lyman, Tripp	5 days
May 27, 3:56 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	UNR	Haakon, Meade, Ziebach	36 hr
May 27, 7:35 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	UNR	Jackson	71 hr
May 27, 9:30 AM CDT	Dense Fog Advisory	UNR	Custer, Lawrence, Meade, Pennington	6 hr
May 27, 11:38 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	UNR	Jones, Mellette	21 days
May 27, 4:17 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ABR	Lyman	48 hr
May 27, 4:23 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ABR	Jones	48 hr
May 27, 4:41 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	UNR	Haakon	29 hr
May 27, 9:00 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	FSD	Minnehaha	21 days
May 28, 12:26 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FSD	Lincoln, Minnehaha	21 days
May 28, 1:02 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	UNR	Pennington	8 hr
May 28, 3:36 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FSD	Moody	21 days
May 28, 6:56 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	UNR	Pennington	3 hr
May 28, 7:13 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	UNR	Pennington	2 hr
May 28, 9:14 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	UNR	Custer, Pennington	3 days
May 28, 12:31 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	FSD	Minnehaha	21 days
May 28, 12:40 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	ABR	Stanley	9 hr
May 28, 1:57 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	FSD	Union	21 days
May 29, 2:47 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	UNR	Haakon, Ziebach	61 hr
May 29, 5:01 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	UNR	Meade, Pennington	15 hr
May 29, 8:09 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FSD	Bon Homme, Charles Mix	42 days
May 29, 10:18 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FSD	Union	21 days
May 29, 2:42 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	FSD	Charles Mix	21 days
May 29, 2:42 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	FSD	Union	21 days
May 29, 2:42 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	FSD	Turner	44 hr
May 29, 2:42 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	FSD	Turner	17 hr
May 29, 3:34 PM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	UNR	Fall River, Oglala Lakota	41 hr
May 29, 9:16 PM CDT	River Flood Warning	FSD	Minnehaha	21 days
May 30, 3:10 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	UNR	Oglala Lakota	60 hr
May 30, 6:59 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FSD	Clay	5 days
May 30, 6:59 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FSD	Minnehaha	25 hr
May 30, 9:47 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FSD	Union	5 days
May 30, 10:15 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FSD	Union	5 days
May 31, 8:56 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	UNR	Custer, Pennington	7 days
May 31, 1:14 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Custer	31 min
May 31, 1:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Lawrence	30 min
May 31, 2:36 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Butte	24 min
May 31, 2:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Butte	35 min
May 31, 3:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Butte	30 min
May 31, 3:19 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Butte	26 min
May 31, 3:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ABR	Dewey	33 min
May 31, 3:45 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Aurora, Beadle, Bon Homme, Brookings, Brown, Brule and 34 more	2 hr
May 31, 4:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Perkins	27 min
May 31, 4:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Meade, Pennington	56 min
May 31, 4:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Tripp	34 min
May 31, 4:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Jackson	36 min
May 31, 5:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ABR	Walworth	37 min
May 31, 5:21 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	UNR	Pennington	5 hr
May 31, 5:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ABR	Lyman	33 min
May 31, 5:52 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ABR	Edmunds	23 min
May 31, 5:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Tripp	34 min
May 31, 6:00 PM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	UNR	Meade, Pennington	48 hr
May 31, 6:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Lawrence	51 min
May 31, 6:32 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ABR	Faulk	28 min
May 31, 6:47 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Lawrence	28 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	10
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	2
Mesoscale Discussion	6
Special Weather Statement	59
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	19
Flash Flood Warning	3
River Flood Warning	57
Flood Watch	3
Areal Flood Advisory	9
Winter
Winter Storm Warning	1
Winter Storm Watch	1
Winter Weather Advisory	4
Cold
Freeze Warning	1
Frost Advisory	4
Wind and dust
Wind Advisory	3
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	4

By county

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

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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.