Alert archive / South Dakota / High Wind Warnings
High Wind Warnings in South Dakota, 2026
18 high wind warnings in 2026. 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 in 2026. Tap one for its archive.
- High Wind Warnings
- 18
- Busiest month
- January7 high wind warnings
- Busiest day
- January 15, 20263 high wind warnings
Over time
By month
The alerts
Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Central Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 15, 2:51 AM CST | High Wind Warning | UNR | Bennett, Butte, Custer, Fall River, Haakon, Harding and 10 more | 40 hr |
| Jan 15, 11:24 AM CST | High Wind Warning | ABR | Buffalo, Campbell, Corson, Dewey, Edmunds, Faulk and 10 more | 31 hr |
| Jan 15, 1:59 PM CST | High Wind Warning | FSD | Aurora, Brule, Charles Mix, Douglas, Gregory, Jerauld | 28 hr |
| Jan 17, 1:10 PM CST | High Wind Warning | UNR | Butte, Fall River, Harding, Meade, Pennington, Perkins | 29 hr |
| Jan 21, 2:48 AM CST | High Wind Warning | UNR | Bennett, Butte, Haakon, Harding, Jackson, Meade and 6 more | 15 hr |
| Jan 21, 9:34 AM CST | High Wind Warning | ABR | Campbell, Corson, Dewey, Hughes, Jones, Lyman and 4 more | 2 hr |
| Jan 21, 10:42 AM CST | High Wind Warning | FSD | Aurora, Bon Homme, Brule, Charles Mix, Clay, Davison and 8 more | 7 hr |
| Feb 16, 5:47 PM CST | High Wind Warning | UNR | Butte, Custer, Fall River, Harding, Meade, Perkins | 30 hr |
| Feb 18, 4:03 AM CST | High Wind Warning | ABR | Buffalo, Codington, Deuel, Dewey, Grant, Hamlin and 9 more | 10 hr |
| Feb 18, 4:37 AM CST | High Wind Warning | FSD | Aurora, Beadle, Brookings, Brule, Jerauld, Kingsbury and 4 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 11, 12:36 PM CDT | High Wind Warning | UNR | Bennett, Butte, Custer, Fall River, Haakon, Harding and 10 more | 35 hr |
| Mar 11, 1:53 PM CDT | High Wind Warning | ABR | Brown, Buffalo, Campbell, Clark, Codington, Corson and 20 more | 41 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 14, 1:11 PM CDT | High Wind Warning | FSD | Bon Homme, Charles Mix, Clay, Gregory, Lincoln, Union and 1 more | 36 hr |
| Mar 17, 7:27 AM CDT | High Wind Warning | UNR | Custer, Lawrence, Meade, Pennington | 12 hr |
| Apr 22, 8:26 PM CDT | High Wind Warning | UNR | Butte, Harding, Meade, Pennington, Perkins | 18 hr |
| Jun 9, 11:43 PM CDT | High Wind Warning | FSD | Aurora, Bon Homme, Charles Mix, Davison, Douglas, Gregory and 4 more | 103 min |
| Jun 29, 8:41 AM CDT | High Wind Warning | ABR | Brown, Day, Edmunds, Faulk, McPherson, Marshall and 1 more | 4 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Meade County7
- Butte County6
- Harding County6
- Pennington County6
- Perkins County6
- Aurora County5
- Charles Mix County5
- Gregory County5
- Custer County4
- Fall River County4
- Dewey County4
- Hughes County4
- Jones County4
- Lyman County4
- Potter County4
- Stanley County4
- Sully County4
- Brule County4
- Douglas County4
- Bon Homme County4
- Bennett County3
- Haakon County3
- Jackson County3
- Lawrence County3
- Mellette County3
- Todd County3
- Tripp County3
- Ziebach County3
- Buffalo County3
- Campbell County3
- Corson County3
- Edmunds County3
- Faulk County3
- Hand County3
- Hyde County3
- McPherson County3
- Walworth County3
- Jerauld County3
- Clay County3
- Davison County3
26 more counties
- Hanson County3
- Hutchinson County3
- Lincoln County3
- Turner County3
- Union County3
- Yankton County3
- Oglala Lakota County2
- Codington County2
- Deuel County2
- Grant County2
- Hamlin County2
- Roberts County2
- Beadle County2
- Brookings County2
- Kingsbury County2
- Lake County2
- Miner County2
- Moody County2
- Sanborn County2
- Brown County2
- Day County2
- Marshall County2
- Spink County2
- McCook County2
- Clark County1
- Minnehaha County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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.