Alert archive / South Dakota / Custer County / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Custer County, South Dakota, 2021

34 severe thunderstorm warnings in 2021. An alert counts here when it covered this county. The archive of severe thunderstorm warnings reaches back to 1986.

Custer County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2021. Tap one for its archive.

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings
34
Busiest month
July13 severe thunderstorm warnings
Busiest day
August 14, 20214 severe thunderstorm warnings

Over time

By month

Warning verification

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

30 of 34 severe thunderstorm warnings covering Custer County in 2021 had a qualifying storm report inside them; 29 of 33 hail, wind and damage reports fell inside a warning, on average 25 minutes after it went out.

Custer County, 2021

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
Severe thunderstorm warnings343012%3388%25 min

Each office's whole area, 2021

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
NWS Rapid City, SD: severe thunderstorm warnings21217119%38079%26 min

An office's figures cover every county it serves, including across state lines.

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.

The alerts

Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Mountain Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Apr 26, 7:29 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNR27 min
May 23, 3:53 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNR37 min
May 23, 4:26 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNR49 min
Jun 8, 7:46 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNR59 min
Jun 8, 8:41 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNR64 min
Jun 10, 9:23 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNR67 min
Jun 10, 10:18 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNR57 min
Jun 10, 10:32 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNR43 min
Jun 14, 11:01 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNR44 min
Jun 14, 11:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNR32 min
Jun 15, 3:25 AM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNR32 min
Jun 19, 7:48 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNR57 min
Jul 3, 1:59 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNR48 min
Jul 5, 4:54 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNR36 min
Jul 8, 5:26 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNR64 min
Jul 8, 6:14 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNR61 min
Jul 9, 5:41 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNR28 min
Jul 9, 7:25 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNR35 min
Jul 9, 7:57 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNR63 min
Jul 13, 9:58 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNR62 min
Jul 16, 4:32 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNR58 min
Jul 16, 5:05 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNR45 min
Jul 16, 5:31 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNR44 min
Jul 17, 5:34 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNR41 min
Jul 21, 12:47 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNR31 min
Aug 14, 12:45 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNR45 min
Aug 14, 1:28 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNR47 min
Aug 14, 2:37 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNR53 min
Aug 14, 3:24 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatUNR66 min
Aug 26, 6:54 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatUNR66 min
Aug 26, 7:48 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatUNR57 min
Aug 30, 4:09 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningUNR66 min
Aug 30, 4:58 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatUNR62 min
Aug 30, 5:50 PM MDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatUNR36 min

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

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.