Alert archive / South Dakota

Weather alerts in Gregory County, South Dakota

2,784 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Gregory County and its neighbors

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

Alerts
2,784
Warnings
842
Watches
566
Advisories
669
Busiest year
2010179 alerts
Average year
70over 40 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, 80% of tornado reports in Gregory County fell inside a tornado warning issued on average 9 minutes before, and 68% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200820100%0
20093167%0
20103233%2100%14 min
201740100%0
20199278%367%3 min
20257443%580%10 min
Share of tornado reports inside a tornado warning, by year.

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2008321456%1587%22 min
2009161038%12100%25 min
2010291741%1580%17 min
201116850%2100%20 min
20128363%0
201310730%2100%9 min
20145340%0
201513838%580%15 min
201612558%5100%17 min
2017171512%8100%13 min
201813654%450%6 min
2019312229%1580%14 min
2020251828%1782%24 min
20217357%450%13 min
2022231535%8100%16 min
202312742%4100%24 min
202412833%1794%27 min
2025292128%1675%21 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20083167%2100%86 min
2009110%1100%41 min
2010220%250%16 min
20113233%0
2014110%0
201520100%0
20162150%0
20186350%1100%29 min
2019220%1100%68 min
202310100%0
202420100%0

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 7, 7:37 PM CDTTornado WarningFSD38 min
Sep 7, 6:14 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSD46 min
Sep 1, 5:50 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatFSD40 min
Sep 1, 5:16 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSD44 min
Sep 1, 5:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Destructive damage threatFSD38 min
Sep 1, 4:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatFSD49 min
Sep 1, 4:15 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSD45 min
Sep 1, 4:06 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSD23 min
Aug 23, 11:31 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSD44 min
Aug 18, 2:24 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSD32 min
Aug 17, 11:07 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSD38 min
Aug 7, 2:22 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningFSD28 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.