Alert archive / South Dakota / 2026
Weather alerts in South Dakota, February 2026
37 weather alerts in February 2026, 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 2026. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 37
- Warnings
- 12
- Watches
- 9
- Advisories
- 12
- Busiest day
- February 18, 202611 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 8, 9:02 AM CST | Dense Fog Advisory | ABR | Campbell, Edmunds, Faulk, McPherson, Walworth | 3 hr |
| Feb 13, 10:28 PM CST | Fire Weather Watch | UNR | Bennett, Custer, Fall River, Jackson, Mellette, Oglala Lakota and 3 more | 15 hr |
| Feb 14, 12:10 AM CST | Fire Weather Watch | FSD | Aurora, Brule, Charles Mix, Davison, Douglas, Gregory and 2 more | 20 hr |
| Feb 14, 1:18 PM CST | Red Flag Warning | UNR | Bennett, Custer, Fall River, Jackson, Mellette, Oglala Lakota and 3 more | 29 hr |
| Feb 14, 1:33 PM CST | Fire Weather Watch | ABR | Buffalo, Jones, Lyman | 9 hr |
| Feb 14, 8:31 PM CST | Red Flag Warning | FSD | Aurora, Brule, Charles Mix, Davison, Douglas, Gregory and 2 more | 21 hr |
| Feb 14, 10:46 PM CST | Red Flag Warning | ABR | Buffalo, Jones, Lyman | 19 hr |
| Feb 15, 10:24 PM CST | High Wind Watch | UNR | Custer, Fall River, Oglala Lakota | 19 hr |
| Feb 15, 10:30 PM CST | Fire Weather Watch | UNR | Bennett, Custer, Fall River, Haakon, Jackson, Meade and 5 more | 14 hr |
| Feb 16, 12:41 PM CST | Red Flag Warning | UNR | Bennett, Butte, Custer, Fall River, Haakon, Jackson and 7 more | 30 hr |
| Feb 16, 5:47 PM CST | High Wind Warning | UNR | Butte, Custer, Fall River, Harding, Meade, Perkins | 30 hr |
| Feb 16, 5:47 PM CST | Wind Advisory | UNR | Custer, Lawrence | 24 hr |
| Feb 16, 10:05 PM CST | High Wind Watch | UNR | Butte, Harding, Meade, Perkins, Ziebach | 6 hr |
| Feb 17, 1:49 AM CST | Wind Advisory | ABR | Brown, Buffalo, Campbell, Clark, Codington, Corson and 20 more | 36 hr |
| Feb 17, 2:43 AM CST | Wind Advisory | FSD | Aurora, Beadle, Bon Homme, Brookings, Brule, Charles Mix and 18 more | 36 hr |
| Feb 17, 3:42 AM CST | Wind Advisory | UNR | Butte, Haakon, Harding, Jackson, Meade, Mellette and 5 more | 26 hr |
| Feb 17, 2:38 PM CST | Fire Weather Watch | FSD | Aurora, Bon Homme, Brule, Charles Mix, Clay, Davison and 10 more | 7 hr |
| Feb 17, 5:22 PM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Union | 53 min |
| Feb 17, 6:13 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | UNR | Meade, Pennington | 47 min |
| Feb 17, 6:55 PM CST | Special Weather Statement | UNR | Bennett, Haakon, Jackson, Oglala Lakota | 50 min |
| Feb 17, 10:06 PM CST | Red Flag Warning | FSD | Aurora, Bon Homme, Brule, Charles Mix, Clay, Davison and 10 more | 20 hr |
| Feb 17, 10:19 PM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | ABR | Brown, Campbell, Clark, Codington, Corson, Day and 10 more | 19 hr |
| Feb 18, 2:33 AM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | UNR | Bennett, Custer, Fall River, Jackson, Lawrence, Meade and 3 more | 35 hr |
| Feb 18, 4:03 AM CST | High Wind Warning | ABR | Buffalo, Codington, Deuel, Dewey, Grant, Hamlin and 9 more | 10 hr |
| Feb 18, 4:36 AM CST | Blizzard Warning | ABR | Brown, Campbell, Clark, Day, Edmunds, Faulk and 3 more | 10 hr |
| Feb 18, 4:37 AM CST | High Wind Warning | FSD | Aurora, Beadle, Brookings, Brule, Jerauld, Kingsbury and 4 more | 7 hr |
| Feb 18, 4:37 AM CST | Wind Advisory | FSD | Aurora, Beadle, Brookings, Brule, Jerauld, Kingsbury and 4 more | 10 hr |
| Feb 18, 8:13 AM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | FSD | Brookings, Kingsbury | 5 hr |
| Feb 18, 12:59 PM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | FSD | Bon Homme, Charles Mix, Clay, Gregory, Union, Yankton | 35 hr |
| Feb 26, 1:24 PM CST | Fire Weather Watch | FSD | Bon Homme, Charles Mix, Clay, Gregory, Union, Yankton | 8 hr |
| Feb 26, 1:48 PM CST | Fire Weather Watch | UNR | Custer, Fall River, Tripp | 9 hr |
| Feb 26, 9:28 PM CST | Red Flag Warning | FSD | Aurora, Bon Homme, Brule, Charles Mix, Clay, Davison and 12 more | 21 hr |
| Feb 26, 11:04 PM CST | Red Flag Warning | UNR | Bennett, Custer, Fall River, Jackson, Mellette, Oglala Lakota and 2 more | 20 hr |
| Feb 27, 12:10 PM CST | Red Flag Warning | ABR | Buffalo, Jones, Lyman | 6 hr |
| Feb 27, 12:33 PM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | ABR | Brown, Campbell, Clark, Codington, Corson, Day and 10 more | 26 hr |
| Feb 27, 9:48 PM CST | Winter Weather Advisory | FSD | Brookings | 17 hr |
| Feb 28, 5:35 AM CST | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brookings, Brown, Clark, Codington, Day, Deuel and 3 more | 2 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 | 2 |
| Special Weather Statement | 2 |
| Winter | |
| Blizzard Warning | 1 |
| Winter Weather Advisory | 6 |
| Wind and dust | |
| High Wind Warning | 3 |
| High Wind Watch | 2 |
| Wind Advisory | 5 |
| Fire | |
| Red Flag Warning | 8 |
| Fire Weather Watch | 7 |
| Fog and smoke | |
| Dense Fog Advisory | 1 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Custer County10
- Fall River County9
- Jackson County8
- Oglala Lakota County8
- Aurora County8
- Brule County8
- Charles Mix County8
- Gregory County8
- Bennett County7
- Pennington County7
- Todd County7
- Tripp County7
- Meade County7
- Clay County7
- Union County7
- Mellette County6
- Davison County6
- Douglas County6
- Jerauld County6
- Sanborn County6
- Bon Homme County6
- Brookings County6
- Yankton County6
- Campbell County5
- Edmunds County5
- Faulk County5
- McPherson County5
- Walworth County5
- Buffalo County5
- Jones County5
- Lyman County5
- Brown County5
- Clark County5
- Codington County5
- Day County5
- Deuel County5
- Grant County5
- Hamlin County5
- Spink County5
- Haakon County4
26 more counties
- Butte County4
- Roberts County4
- Hanson County4
- Hutchinson County4
- Kingsbury County4
- Lincoln County4
- McCook County4
- Minnehaha County4
- Turner County4
- Lawrence County3
- Harding County3
- Perkins County3
- Corson County3
- Marshall County3
- Beadle County3
- Lake County3
- Miner County3
- Moody County3
- Ziebach County2
- Dewey County2
- Hand County2
- Hughes County2
- Hyde County2
- Potter County2
- Stanley County2
- Sully County2
Nearby
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.