Alert archive / South Dakota

Weather alerts in Campbell County, South Dakota

2,959 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Campbell County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
2,959
Warnings
780
Watches
506
Advisories
904
Busiest year
2016159 alerts
Average year
72over 41 years on file

Over time

By year

Before late 2005 the archive holds only tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings, and from 1997 SPC's watches, so the jump that year is the archive widening, not the weather.

By month of the year

Warning verification

How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.

From 2008 to 2025, 64% of tornado reports in Campbell County fell inside a tornado warning issued on average 14 minutes before, and 67% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200920100%0
20102150%0
201310100%10%
201620100%20%
201710100%0
2021010%
20247357%7100%14 min
20253233%0
Share of tornado reports inside a tornado warning, by year.

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2008301163%1173%24 min
200911464%5100%21 min
2010131023%729%7 min
201113931%475%16 min
2012191332%989%33 min
2013241825%771%15 min
201415940%3100%15 min
2015770%6100%16 min
2016382729%2090%18 min
201710820%367%41 min
2018211719%5100%9 min
2019151033%5100%22 min
2020191237%450%17 min
20219722%450%9 min
2022151220%1486%20 min
20235180%10%
202411645%933%22 min
2025201430%1010%24 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2009110%0
201010100%0
20112150%0
2012110%1100%25 min
20143233%1100%34 min
2018110%10%
2022010%

Years from 2008, the first full year of storm-based warnings. The year still running is on its own page.

Verified by the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow, which matches each storm-based warning with the local storm reports inside its polygon while it was in force, within 15 km of its edge: a tornado warning counts as verified on a tornado report, a severe thunderstorm warning on hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more, or wind damage, a flash flood warning on a flash flood report. The false alarm ratio is the share of warnings with no such report; "inside a warning" is the probability of detection, the share of reports that fell inside one; lead time runs from the warning's issue to each report inside it, counting zero for a report that came first. A warning with no report is not proof nothing happened: reports come from spotters, the public and damage surveys, and are thin where few people live.

By product

Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Sep 28, 9:34 AM CDTAreal Flood WarningABR6 hr
Sep 8, 9:23 AM CDTRed Flag WarningABR10 hr
Sep 6, 12:38 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABR30 min
Aug 30, 8:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABR23 min
Aug 30, 7:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABR49 min
Aug 24, 8:21 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABR32 min
Aug 24, 7:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABR61 min
Aug 9, 1:27 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABR31 min
Aug 9, 12:31 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatABR59 min
Aug 8, 11:57 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABR63 min
Aug 8, 11:42 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABR63 min
Aug 8, 11:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningABR59 min

Nearby

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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.