Weather alerts in South Dakota, December 2023

52 weather alerts in December 2023, 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 December 2023. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts: 52
Warnings: 9
Watches: 7
Advisories: 31
Busiest day: December 24, 20238 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
Dec 2, 2:01 PM CST	Wind Advisory	UNR	Butte, Fall River, Lawrence, Meade, Pennington	27 hr
Dec 3, 2:21 AM CST	High Wind Watch	UNR	Butte, Custer, Haakon, Harding, Jackson, Meade and 3 more	23 hr
Dec 3, 1:29 PM CST	Wind Advisory	ABR	Buffalo, Campbell, Corson, Dewey, Hughes, Hyde and 6 more	28 hr
Dec 3, 6:58 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	ABR	Clark, Codington, Day, Deuel, Hamlin, Marshall	10 hr
Dec 3, 7:06 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	FSD	Beadle, Bon Homme, Brookings, Clay, Davison, Hanson and 12 more	16 hr
Dec 4, 1:19 AM CST	High Wind Warning	UNR	Butte, Harding, Meade, Pennington, Perkins	17 hr
Dec 4, 1:19 AM CST	Wind Advisory	UNR	Bennett, Custer, Haakon, Jackson, Lawrence, Meade and 6 more	17 hr
Dec 4, 2:45 PM CST	Wind Advisory	FSD	Brule, Charles Mix, Gregory	3 hr
Dec 6, 3:05 AM CST	Wind Advisory	UNR	Bennett, Butte, Custer, Fall River, Haakon, Harding and 10 more	4 days
Dec 6, 2:43 PM CST	High Wind Warning	UNR	Custer, Fall River, Pennington	22 hr
Dec 7, 3:01 AM CST	Wind Advisory	ABR	Brown, Buffalo, Campbell, Clark, Codington, Corson and 20 more	60 hr
Dec 8, 2:54 AM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	ABR	Brown, Campbell, Clark, Corson, Day, Dewey and 8 more	33 hr
Dec 8, 3:06 AM CST	Wind Advisory	UNR	Bennett, Jackson, Mellette, Pennington, Todd	37 hr
Dec 8, 1:57 PM CST	Wind Advisory	FSD	Aurora, Beadle, Bon Homme, Brookings, Brule, Charles Mix and 18 more	28 hr
Dec 9, 2:20 AM CST	Wind Advisory	UNR	Pennington	9 hr
Dec 17, 2:30 AM CST	Wind Advisory	UNR	Butte, Lawrence, Meade, Pennington	16 hr
Dec 21, 6:21 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	FSD	Beadle, Brookings, Clay, Davison, Hanson, Hutchinson and 11 more	18 hr
Dec 21, 10:42 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	ABR	Clark, Codington, Day, Deuel, Grant, Hamlin and 3 more	13 hr
Dec 22, 12:01 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	ABR	Clark, Codington, Deuel, Grant, Hamlin, Roberts and 1 more	3 hr
Dec 22, 2:49 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	UNR	Bennett, Jackson, Lawrence, Meade, Mellette, Oglala Lakota and 3 more	50 hr
Dec 22, 3:09 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	ABR	Clark, Codington, Deuel, Grant, Hamlin, Roberts	22 hr
Dec 22, 3:30 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	FSD	Brookings, Clay, Kingsbury, Lake, Lincoln, McCook and 4 more	22 hr
Dec 23, 3:41 AM CST	Wind Advisory	UNR	Custer, Meade, Pennington	35 hr
Dec 23, 2:45 PM CST	Winter Storm Watch	UNR	Tripp	12 hr
Dec 23, 2:51 PM CST	Winter Storm Watch	FSD	Aurora, Beadle, Bon Homme, Brule, Charles Mix, Davison and 7 more	13 hr
Dec 23, 3:00 PM CST	Winter Storm Watch	ABR	Brown, Buffalo, Clark, Codington, Day, Edmunds and 13 more	23 hr
Dec 24, 3:08 AM CST	Blizzard Warning	UNR	Bennett, Custer, Haakon, Jackson, Meade, Mellette and 6 more	66 hr
Dec 24, 3:08 AM CST	Winter Storm Watch	UNR	Bennett, Haakon, Jackson, Mellette, Todd	12 hr
Dec 24, 3:27 AM CST	Blizzard Warning	FSD	Aurora, Beadle, Bon Homme, Brule, Charles Mix, Davison and 7 more	47 hr
Dec 24, 2:12 PM CST	Blizzard Warning	ABR	Buffalo, Campbell, Corson, Dewey, Edmunds, Faulk and 10 more	52 hr
Dec 24, 2:12 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	ABR	Brown, Clark, Codington, Day, Deuel, Grant and 4 more	34 hr
Dec 24, 2:22 PM CST	Winter Storm Warning	FSD	Clay, Kingsbury, McCook, Miner, Turner	28 hr
Dec 24, 2:22 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	FSD	Beadle, Bon Homme, Brookings, Clay, Davison, Hanson and 12 more	46 hr
Dec 24, 3:11 PM CST	Winter Storm Watch	UNR	Fall River, Oglala Lakota, Pennington	12 hr
Dec 25, 2:22 AM CST	Ice Storm Warning	ABR	Brown, Campbell, Clark, Codington, Corson, Day and 11 more	49 hr
Dec 25, 3:05 AM CST	Winter Storm Watch	UNR	Custer, Lawrence, Meade, Pennington, Perkins	12 hr
Dec 25, 3:05 AM CST	Winter Storm Warning	UNR	Butte, Fall River, Lawrence, Meade, Pennington, Tripp	42 hr
Dec 25, 3:41 AM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	FSD	Aurora, Brule, Charles Mix, Douglas, Gregory, Jerauld	50 hr
Dec 25, 7:00 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Aurora, Beadle, Bon Homme, Brookings, Brown, Brule and 32 more	6 hr
Dec 25, 2:36 PM CST	Winter Storm Warning	ABR	Campbell, Corson, Hand, Hyde, Potter, Sully and 1 more	20 hr
Dec 25, 2:43 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	UNR	Bennett, Butte, Custer, Fall River, Haakon, Harding and 10 more	36 hr
Dec 25, 3:31 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Aurora, Beadle, Bennett, Brown, Brule, Buffalo and 34 more	4 hr
Dec 25, 7:56 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Aurora, Beadle, Bennett, Brown, Brule, Buffalo and 37 more	5 hr
Dec 26, 2:56 AM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	ABR	Buffalo, Edmunds, Faulk, Hand, Hughes, Hyde and 5 more	24 hr
Dec 26, 4:33 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Butte, Custer, Fall River, Haakon, Jackson, Lawrence and 4 more	5 hr
Dec 26, 5:27 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Campbell, Edmunds, McPherson, Potter, Walworth	5 hr
Dec 26, 9:04 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	UNR	Custer, Pennington	6 hr
Dec 28, 4:11 AM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	FSD	Bon Homme, Clay, Hutchinson, Lincoln, Turner, Union and 1 more	4 hr
Dec 31, 3:50 AM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	UNR	Bennett, Butte, Custer, Fall River, Haakon, Harding and 9 more	10 hr
Dec 31, 5:16 AM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	ABR	Corson, Dewey, Jones, Lyman, Stanley	5 hr
Dec 31, 7:44 AM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	FSD	Gregory	2 hr
Dec 31, 3:40 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	UNR	Butte, Haakon, Harding, Jackson, Meade, Perkins and 1 more	15 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
Mesoscale Discussion	5
Winter
Blizzard Warning	3
Ice Storm Warning	1
Winter Storm Warning	3
Winter Storm Watch	6
Winter Weather Advisory	8
Wind and dust
High Wind Warning	2
High Wind Watch	1
Wind Advisory	11
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	12

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.