High Wind Warnings in South Dakota
368 high wind warnings 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 high wind warnings reaches back to 2005.
High Wind Warnings by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- High Wind Warnings
- 368
- Busiest year
- 202244 high wind warnings
- Average year
- 17over 22 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.
- Meade County181
- Pennington County173
- Harding County138
- Butte County127
- Perkins County123
- Lawrence County92
- Custer County88
- Ziebach County85
- Haakon County82
- Jackson County70
- Dewey County62
- Corson County61
- Mellette County59
- Bennett County58
- Stanley County58
- Todd County58
- Lyman County57
- Hughes County55
- Jones County55
- Tripp County53
- Sully County52
- Campbell County50
- Potter County50
- Walworth County50
- Oglala Lakota County49
- Hyde County44
- Buffalo County43
- Fall River County41
- Hand County40
- Gregory County39
- McPherson County39
- Charles Mix County38
- Edmunds County38
- Brule County37
- Aurora County34
- Bon Homme County34
- Douglas County34
- Roberts County34
- Faulk County34
- Grant County32
26 more counties
- Yankton County32
- Davison County31
- Marshall County31
- Day County30
- Hutchinson County30
- Jerauld County30
- Brown County30
- Clay County29
- Spink County29
- Union County28
- Hanson County27
- Lincoln County27
- Codington County26
- Beadle County25
- Deuel County25
- Hamlin County25
- Minnehaha County25
- Turner County25
- Clark County24
- McCook County23
- Moody County22
- Sanborn County21
- Miner County20
- Brookings County19
- Kingsbury County19
- Lake County19
The latest high wind warnings
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 29, 8:41 AM CDT | High Wind Warning | ABR | Brown, Day, Edmunds, Faulk, McPherson, Marshall and 1 more | 4 hr |
| Jun 9, 11:43 PM CDT | High Wind Warning | FSD | Aurora, Bon Homme, Charles Mix, Davison, Douglas, Gregory and 4 more | 103 min |
| Apr 22, 8:26 PM CDT | High Wind Warning | UNR | Butte, Harding, Meade, Pennington, Perkins | 18 hr |
| Mar 17, 7:27 AM CDT | High Wind Warning | UNR | Custer, Lawrence, Meade, Pennington | 12 hr |
| Mar 14, 1:11 PM CDT | High Wind Warning | FSD | Bon Homme, Charles Mix, Clay, Gregory, Lincoln, Union and 1 more | 36 hr |
| Mar 11, 1:59 PM CDT | High Wind Warning | FSD | Aurora, Beadle, Bon Homme, Brookings, Brule, Charles Mix and 18 more | 41 hr |
| Mar 11, 1:53 PM CDT | High Wind Warning | ABR | Brown, Buffalo, Campbell, Clark, Codington, Corson and 20 more | 41 hr |
| Mar 11, 12:36 PM CDT | High Wind Warning | UNR | Bennett, Butte, Custer, Fall River, Haakon, Harding and 10 more | 35 hr |
| Feb 18, 4:37 AM CST | High Wind Warning | FSD | Aurora, Beadle, Brookings, Brule, Jerauld, Kingsbury and 4 more | 7 hr |
| Feb 18, 4:03 AM CST | High Wind Warning | ABR | Buffalo, Codington, Deuel, Dewey, Grant, Hamlin and 9 more | 10 hr |
| Feb 16, 5:47 PM CST | High Wind Warning | UNR | Butte, Custer, Fall River, Harding, Meade, Perkins | 30 hr |
| Jan 21, 10:42 AM CST | High Wind Warning | FSD | Aurora, Bon Homme, Brule, Charles Mix, Clay, Davison and 8 more | 7 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. Rebuilt daily.