Weather alerts in South Dakota, May 2020

134 weather alerts in May 2020, 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 2020. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts: 134
Warnings: 60
Watches: 8
Advisories: 10
Busiest day: May 23, 202029 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
Apr 30, 7:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Fall River	49 min
Apr 30, 8:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Custer	38 min
Apr 30, 8:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Custer, Fall River	49 min
Apr 30, 8:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Fall River	34 min
Apr 30, 9:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Lawrence	42 min
Apr 30, 9:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Oglala Lakota	39 min
Apr 30, 9:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Pennington	51 min
Apr 30, 9:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Bennett, Jackson, Oglala Lakota, Pennington	46 min
Apr 30, 10:00 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Bennett	30 min
Apr 30, 10:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Haakon	42 min
Apr 30, 10:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Mellette, Todd	64 min
Apr 30, 10:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Haakon	48 min
Apr 30, 11:09 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ABR	Jones, Stanley	51 min
Apr 30, 11:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Tripp	59 min
May 1, 12:05 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ABR	Jones	55 min
May 2, 3:08 AM CDT	Red Flag Warning	ABR		16 hr
May 3, 2:32 PM CDT	Wind Advisory	UNR	Custer, Meade, Pennington	25 hr
May 3, 3:08 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Lawrence	37 min
May 3, 3:10 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Butte, Harding, Lawrence, Meade, Pennington, Perkins	2 hr
May 3, 3:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Lawrence	27 min
May 3, 3:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Lawrence, Meade	45 min
May 3, 4:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Lawrence, Meade, Pennington	40 min
May 3, 4:30 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Meade	45 min
May 3, 4:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Meade, Pennington	53 min
May 3, 5:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Custer, Meade, Pennington	61 min
May 3, 5:24 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Bennett	51 min
May 3, 5:46 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Bennett, Jackson	44 min
May 3, 5:55 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Pennington	50 min
May 3, 6:04 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Pennington	30 min
May 3, 6:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Custer, Oglala Lakota, Pennington	60 min
May 3, 6:19 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Custer, Pennington	41 min
May 3, 6:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Fall River	49 min
May 3, 7:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Custer, Pennington	38 min
May 3, 7:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Jackson, Oglala Lakota, Pennington	61 min
May 3, 7:20 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR		40 min
May 3, 7:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Butte, Harding	76 min
May 3, 7:33 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Fall River	42 min
May 3, 7:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Custer, Pennington	61 min
May 3, 8:05 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Bennett, Jackson	55 min
May 3, 8:54 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Butte	66 min
May 3, 8:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Bennett, Jackson, Mellette, Todd	63 min
May 3, 9:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Bennett, Todd	46 min
May 3, 10:45 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	LBF	Todd	60 min
May 5, 2:25 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Perkins	50 min
May 5, 4:57 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Charles Mix	33 min
May 7, 3:49 AM CDT	Freeze Watch	FSD	Bon Homme, Charles Mix, Clay, Douglas, Gregory, Hutchinson and 2 more	12 hr
May 7, 3:49 AM CDT	Freeze Warning	FSD	Aurora, Beadle, Brookings, Brule, Charles Mix, Davison and 14 more	29 hr
May 7, 3:31 PM CDT	Frost Advisory	FSD	Bon Homme, Clay, Union, Yankton	17 hr
May 8, 3:32 AM CDT	Frost Advisory	FSD	Brookings, Lincoln, Minnehaha, Moody, Union	28 hr
May 8, 2:44 PM CDT	High Wind Watch	UNR	Butte, Harding, Meade, Pennington, Perkins	6 hr
May 8, 2:44 PM CDT	Wind Advisory	UNR	Bennett, Butte, Custer, Haakon, Harding, Jackson and 9 more	30 hr
May 8, 9:36 PM CDT	Wind Advisory	ABR	Brown, Buffalo, Campbell, Clark, Codington, Corson and 16 more	23 hr
May 9, 3:38 AM CDT	Freeze Warning	FSD	Aurora, Beadle, Bon Homme, Brookings, Brule, Charles Mix and 17 more	29 hr
May 9, 3:54 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	FSD	Aurora, Beadle, Bon Homme, Brule, Charles Mix, Davison and 8 more	17 hr
May 9, 10:05 AM CDT	High Wind Warning	UNR	Harding, Perkins	6 hr
May 10, 4:20 AM CDT	Freeze Warning	FSD	Aurora, Beadle, Bon Homme, Brookings, Brule, Charles Mix and 18 more	28 hr
May 11, 2:30 PM CDT	Freeze Warning	FSD	Brookings, Moody	18 hr
May 11, 9:24 PM CDT	Frost Advisory	FSD	Hanson, Kingsbury, Lake, Lincoln, McCook, Miner and 2 more	11 hr
May 13, 6:21 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Fall River	24 min
May 13, 6:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Oglala Lakota	32 min
May 13, 11:16 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Custer	29 min
May 13, 11:43 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Custer	32 min
May 14, 12:15 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Oglala Lakota	45 min
May 14, 1:00 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Jackson	45 min
May 14, 1:41 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Bennett	49 min
May 14, 2:22 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Todd	38 min
May 14, 9:19 AM CDT	River Flood Warning	FSD	Hutchinson, Yankton	21 days
May 15, 12:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Pennington	49 min
May 15, 3:01 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Jackson	44 min
May 15, 4:42 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Fall River	48 min
May 15, 4:56 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Bennett	34 min
May 16, 11:43 AM CDT	Areal Flood Advisory	UNR	Butte, Lawrence	6 hr
May 16, 1:17 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	UNR	Butte, Lawrence	2 hr
May 18, 9:22 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	UNR	Harding, Perkins	11 hr
May 20, 9:46 AM CDT	Wind Advisory	UNR	Butte, Harding, Meade, Perkins, Ziebach	11 hr
May 20, 2:07 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Butte, Custer, Fall River, Lawrence, Pennington	83 min
May 20, 3:22 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Butte, Custer, Fall River, Lawrence, Meade, Pennington	8 hr
May 20, 6:25 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Butte, Custer, Fall River, Lawrence	95 min
May 20, 6:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Custer, Lawrence, Pennington	48 min
May 20, 7:17 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Butte, Lawrence, Meade, Pennington	43 min
May 20, 8:03 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Butte	27 min
May 20, 8:29 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Butte	31 min
May 23, 12:24 PM CDT	Flash Flood Watch	UNR	Butte, Custer, Haakon, Harding, Lawrence, Meade and 3 more	10 hr
May 23, 1:27 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Lawrence	33 min
May 23, 1:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Pennington	34 min
May 23, 1:48 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Butte, Custer, Fall River, Lawrence, Meade, Oglala Lakota and 1 more	117 min
May 23, 1:56 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Meade	49 min
May 23, 2:15 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Bennett, Butte, Custer, Fall River, Haakon, Harding and 7 more	7 hr
May 23, 2:40 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Butte, Meade	33 min
May 23, 2:42 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Lawrence	48 min
May 23, 2:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Meade, Pennington	61 min
May 23, 3:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Meade	28 min
May 23, 3:30 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Lawrence	30 min
May 23, 3:32 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Meade	43 min
May 23, 3:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Lawrence, Pennington	45 min
May 23, 3:48 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Haakon, Jackson, Pennington	42 min
May 23, 3:54 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Butte, Meade, Pennington	66 min
May 23, 3:57 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bennett, Butte, Custer, Fall River, Haakon, Harding and 7 more	93 min
May 23, 4:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Haakon, Jackson, Pennington	64 min
May 23, 4:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Pennington	33 min
May 23, 4:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Meade, Pennington	62 min
May 23, 5:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Haakon, Pennington	23 min
May 23, 5:23 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Pennington	22 min
May 23, 5:26 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Haakon, Jackson, Pennington	64 min
May 23, 5:37 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Meade, Pennington	50 min
May 23, 5:41 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Ziebach	49 min
May 23, 5:44 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	UNR	Meade	4 hr
May 23, 5:51 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	UNR	Haakon, Jackson, Pennington	5 hr
May 23, 6:20 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Haakon, Pennington, Ziebach	55 min
May 23, 6:27 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Bennett, Butte, Custer, Fall River, Harding, Lawrence and 4 more	93 min
May 23, 6:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Haakon, Jackson	31 min
May 23, 7:04 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	UNR	Meade, Pennington	2 hr
May 23, 7:07 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	UNR	Haakon, Ziebach	4 hr
May 23, 7:14 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Haakon, Jackson, Ziebach	91 min
May 23, 7:23 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Bennett, Jackson	52 min
May 23, 7:53 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Aurora, Brule, Buffalo, Campbell, Charles Mix, Corson and 17 more	97 min
May 23, 7:54 PM CDT	Flash Flood Warning	UNR	Haakon	5 hr
May 23, 8:12 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Bennett, Jackson	63 min
May 23, 8:29 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Bennett, Haakon, Hughes, Jackson, Jones, Lyman and 4 more	5 hr
May 23, 8:41 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	ABR	Hughes, Stanley	49 min
May 23, 8:44 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Haakon, Jackson, Mellette	46 min
May 23, 9:15 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Bennett	45 min
May 23, 9:46 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	ABR	Stanley	44 min
May 23, 11:58 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Aurora, Bon Homme, Brule, Charles Mix, Clay, Davison and 10 more	6 hr
May 24, 3:25 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Clay, Yankton	50 min
May 24, 3:50 AM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	FSD	Union	55 min
May 24, 3:55 AM CDT	Areal Flood Warning	ABR	Corson, Dewey	6 hr
May 29, 11:22 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Lawrence	38 min
May 29, 11:26 PM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Custer	49 min
May 30, 12:10 AM CDT	Special Weather Statement	UNR	Lawrence	50 min
May 31, 3:35 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Butte, Harding	115 min
May 31, 4:43 PM CDT	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Custer, Fall River, Oglala Lakota, Pennington	2 hr
May 31, 4:45 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	UNR	Custer, Pennington	25 min
May 31, 5:07 PM CDT	Severe Thunderstorm Watch	SPC	Butte, Custer, Harding, Lawrence, Meade, Pennington and 1 more	6 hr

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	46
Severe Thunderstorm Watch	5
Mesoscale Discussion	9
Special Weather Statement	47
Flooding
Areal Flood Warning	1
Flash Flood Warning	6
River Flood Warning	1
Flash Flood Watch	1
Areal Flood Advisory	1
Cold
Freeze Warning	4
Freeze Watch	1
Frost Advisory	3
Wind and dust
High Wind Warning	1
High Wind Watch	1
Wind Advisory	6
Fire
Red Flag Warning	1

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.