Flood Watches in South Dakota
76 flood watches since 1986. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of flood watches reaches back to 2005.
Flood Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Flood Watches
- 76
- Busiest year
- 20098 flood watches
- Average year
- 4over 18 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
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Pennington County30
- Meade County29
- Custer County28
- Lawrence County27
- Oglala Lakota County22
- Jackson County20
- Butte County19
- Fall River County18
- Bennett County18
- Haakon County18
- Harding County18
- Perkins County17
- Mellette County16
- Tripp County16
- Union County15
- Ziebach County15
- Todd County14
- Lincoln County12
- Day County11
- Minnehaha County11
- Clay County10
- Codington County10
- Deuel County10
- Grant County10
- Hamlin County10
- Marshall County10
- Clark County9
- Moody County9
- Lake County8
- Roberts County8
- Spink County8
- Yankton County8
- Brookings County8
- Brown County8
- Edmunds County8
- McCook County8
- McPherson County8
- Bon Homme County7
- Hanson County7
- Hutchinson County7
26 more counties
- Kingsbury County7
- Miner County7
- Turner County7
- Campbell County7
- Hand County6
- Beadle County6
- Charles Mix County6
- Davison County6
- Douglas County6
- Corson County6
- Lyman County6
- Aurora County5
- Brule County5
- Gregory County5
- Jerauld County5
- Sanborn County5
- Dewey County5
- Hyde County5
- Walworth County5
- Faulk County4
- Buffalo County4
- Hughes County4
- Jones County4
- Potter County4
- Stanley County4
- Sully County4
The latest flood watches
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sep 28, 5:30 PM CDT | Flood Watch | ABR | Campbell, Corson, Dewey | 10 hr |
| Sep 6, 10:23 AM CDT | Flood Watch | FSD | Lincoln, Minnehaha, Union | 9 hr |
| Jul 7, 11:59 PM CDT | Flood Watch | ABR | Brown, Day, Grant, Marshall, Roberts | 5 hr |
| Jul 7, 8:50 PM CDT | Flood Watch | ABR | Campbell, Corson, Edmunds, McPherson, Walworth | 3 hr |
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.