Weather alerts in South Dakota, December 2025

60 weather alerts in December 2025, 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 2025. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts: 60
Warnings: 12
Watches: 7
Advisories: 38
Busiest day: December 8, 20257 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, 2:30 AM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	UNR	Lawrence, Meade, Pennington	29 hr
Dec 2, 11:08 AM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	ABR	Buffalo, Hand, Hughes, Hyde, Lyman, Sully	3 hr
Dec 2, 1:46 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	ABR	Clark, Spink	7 hr
Dec 5, 3:33 AM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	FSD	Aurora, Beadle, Bon Homme, Brookings, Clay, Davison and 15 more	44 hr
Dec 5, 12:32 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	ABR	Clark, Deuel, Faulk, Hamlin, Hand, Spink	27 hr
Dec 6, 3:08 AM CST	Winter Storm Warning	FSD	Lincoln, McCook, Minnehaha, Turner	21 hr
Dec 6, 12:25 PM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Clay, Lincoln, Minnehaha, Turner, Union	6 hr
Dec 7, 1:13 PM CST	High Wind Watch	UNR	Bennett, Butte, Custer, Fall River, Haakon, Harding and 10 more	24 hr
Dec 7, 1:20 PM CST	High Wind Watch	ABR	Buffalo, Campbell, Corson, Dewey, Edmunds, Faulk and 10 more	25 hr
Dec 8, 5:34 AM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	ABR	Buffalo, Campbell, Dewey, Edmunds, Faulk, Hughes and 6 more	4 hr
Dec 8, 5:35 AM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	FSD	Aurora, Beadle, Brookings, Brule, Jerauld, Kingsbury and 5 more	15 hr
Dec 8, 1:13 PM CST	High Wind Warning	UNR	Bennett, Butte, Custer, Fall River, Haakon, Harding and 10 more	37 hr
Dec 8, 1:24 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	ABR	Brown, Campbell, Clark, Codington, Corson, Day and 12 more	26 hr
Dec 8, 2:01 PM CST	High Wind Warning	ABR	Brown, Buffalo, Campbell, Clark, Codington, Corson and 20 more	40 hr
Dec 8, 2:45 PM CST	High Wind Warning	FSD	Aurora, Beadle, Bon Homme, Brookings, Brule, Charles Mix and 18 more	39 hr
Dec 8, 2:45 PM CST	Winter Storm Watch	FSD	Aurora, Beadle, Bon Homme, Brookings, Clay, Davison and 15 more	21 hr
Dec 9, 9:02 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Brown, Codington, Day, Grant, Marshall, Roberts	3 hr
Dec 9, 11:52 AM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	FSD	Brookings, Moody	16 hr
Dec 9, 1:15 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	UNR	Butte, Haakon, Harding, Meade, Perkins, Ziebach	50 hr
Dec 9, 1:17 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	ABR	Codington, Day, Deuel, Grant, Hamlin, Marshall and 1 more	17 hr
Dec 9, 1:17 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	ABR	Brown, Buffalo, Campbell, Clark, Codington, Corson and 18 more	53 hr
Dec 10, 3:13 AM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	FSD	Aurora, Beadle, Brookings, Brule, Clay, Davison and 13 more	39 hr
Dec 10, 2:33 PM CST	Ice Storm Warning	ABR	Corson	26 hr
Dec 11, 8:15 AM CST	Wind Advisory	UNR	Fall River	7 hr
Dec 12, 1:51 AM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	ABR	Buffalo, Corson, Dewey, Hand, Hughes, Hyde and 4 more	31 hr
Dec 12, 2:15 AM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	UNR	Haakon, Harding, Meade, Perkins, Ziebach	31 hr
Dec 12, 2:24 AM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	FSD	Aurora, Beadle, Bon Homme, Brule, Charles Mix, Clay and 14 more	34 hr
Dec 12, 2:00 PM CST	Cold Weather Advisory	ABR	Brown, Clark, Codington, Day, Deuel, Grant and 4 more	44 hr
Dec 12, 2:08 PM CST	Cold Weather Advisory	FSD	Beadle, Brookings, Davison, Hanson, Hutchinson, Kingsbury and 8 more	44 hr
Dec 16, 2:48 AM CST	High Wind Watch	UNR	Butte, Fall River, Harding, Lawrence, Meade, Perkins	11 hr
Dec 16, 1:57 PM CST	High Wind Watch	FSD	Aurora, Beadle, Bon Homme, Brookings, Brule, Charles Mix and 18 more	13 hr
Dec 16, 1:57 PM CST	Wind Advisory	FSD	Brookings, Brule, Charles Mix, Gregory, Kingsbury, Lake and 1 more	31 hr
Dec 16, 2:01 PM CST	High Wind Watch	ABR	Brown, Buffalo, Campbell, Codington, Corson, Deuel and 16 more	12 hr
Dec 16, 2:01 PM CST	Wind Advisory	ABR	Clark, Codington, Day, Deuel, Grant, Hamlin and 2 more	31 hr
Dec 16, 2:01 PM CST	Winter Storm Watch	ABR	Clark, Day, Marshall, Roberts	22 hr
Dec 16, 2:04 PM CST	High Wind Warning	UNR	Bennett, Butte, Custer, Fall River, Haakon, Harding and 10 more	48 hr
Dec 17, 2:22 AM CST	High Wind Warning	ABR	Brown, Buffalo, Campbell, Clark, Codington, Corson and 20 more	40 hr
Dec 17, 2:43 AM CST	High Wind Warning	FSD	Aurora, Beadle, Bon Homme, Brookings, Brule, Charles Mix and 18 more	42 hr
Dec 17, 12:16 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	ABR	Brown, Clark, Codington, Day, Deuel, Edmunds and 8 more	30 hr
Dec 18, 2:18 AM CST	Blizzard Warning	ABR	Day, Marshall, Roberts	16 hr
Dec 18, 6:47 AM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	FSD	Beadle, Brookings, Kingsbury, Lake, Lincoln, Miner and 3 more	11 hr
Dec 18, 9:09 AM CST	Mesoscale Discussion	SPC	Brookings, Codington, Day, Deuel, Grant, Hamlin and 2 more	5 hr
Dec 18, 5:38 PM CST	Wind Advisory	ABR	Codington, Deuel, Grant, Hamlin, Roberts	3 hr
Dec 19, 4:04 AM CST	Wind Advisory	UNR	Custer, Fall River, Lawrence, Meade, Pennington	14 hr
Dec 19, 3:24 PM CST	High Wind Warning	UNR	Fall River	5 hr
Dec 21, 1:19 PM CST	Wind Advisory	UNR	Custer, Fall River	27 hr
Dec 24, 1:19 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	FSD	Aurora, Beadle, Bon Homme, Brookings, Brule, Charles Mix and 18 more	68 hr
Dec 24, 2:05 PM CST	Wind Advisory	UNR	Custer, Lawrence, Meade, Pennington	25 hr
Dec 24, 7:24 PM CST	High Wind Warning	UNR	Lawrence	20 hr
Dec 24, 8:45 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	ABR	Brown, Buffalo, Campbell, Clark, Codington, Corson and 20 more	45 hr
Dec 24, 10:48 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	UNR	Haakon, Meade, Perkins, Ziebach	10 hr
Dec 26, 7:02 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	ABR	Clark, Codington, Deuel, Grant, Hamlin, Roberts and 1 more	16 hr
Dec 27, 4:09 AM CST	Wind Advisory	UNR	Bennett, Butte, Custer, Fall River, Haakon, Harding and 10 more	38 hr
Dec 27, 4:27 AM CST	Wind Advisory	ABR	Brown, Buffalo, Campbell, Clark, Codington, Corson and 20 more	47 hr
Dec 27, 12:47 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	FSD	Brookings, Clay, Lincoln, Minnehaha, Moody, Union	17 hr
Dec 27, 2:10 PM CST	Wind Advisory	FSD	Aurora, Beadle, Bon Homme, Brookings, Brule, Charles Mix and 18 more	34 hr
Dec 27, 2:11 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	FSD	Aurora, Beadle, Bon Homme, Brookings, Brule, Clay and 16 more	40 hr
Dec 27, 3:52 PM CST	Dense Fog Advisory	ABR	Brown, Clark, Codington, Day, Deuel, Edmunds and 5 more	8 hr
Dec 27, 6:52 PM CST	Winter Weather Advisory	ABR	Brown, Buffalo, Campbell, Clark, Codington, Corson and 20 more	32 hr
Dec 28, 2:37 AM CST	Blizzard Warning	ABR	Grant, Marshall, Roberts	24 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	3
Winter
Blizzard Warning	2
Ice Storm Warning	1
Winter Storm Warning	1
Winter Storm Watch	2
Winter Weather Advisory	18
Cold
Cold Weather Advisory	2
Wind and dust
High Wind Warning	8
High Wind Watch	5
Wind Advisory	10
Fog and smoke
Dense Fog Advisory	8

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.