High Wind Watches in South Dakota
217 high wind 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 high wind watches reaches back to 2005.
High Wind Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- High Wind Watches
- 217
- Busiest year
- 202521 high wind watches
- Average year
- 10over 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 County128
- Pennington County115
- Harding County108
- Butte County107
- Perkins County105
- Lawrence County84
- Ziebach County84
- Haakon County76
- Custer County73
- Jackson County69
- Bennett County48
- Oglala Lakota County46
- Corson County45
- Dewey County45
- Mellette County45
- Todd County44
- Stanley County41
- Tripp County40
- Campbell County39
- Walworth County39
- Jones County39
- Potter County38
- Sully County38
- Hughes County37
- Lyman County35
- Fall River County33
- Edmunds County31
- McPherson County31
- Hyde County29
- Faulk County28
- Hand County27
- Buffalo County26
- Brule County22
- Gregory County22
- Brown County22
- Aurora County21
- Charles Mix County21
- Douglas County20
- Jerauld County20
- Beadle County19
26 more counties
- Bon Homme County19
- Hutchinson County19
- Sanborn County19
- Spink County19
- Davison County18
- Hanson County17
- Day County17
- Marshall County17
- Miner County16
- Grant County16
- Roberts County16
- Kingsbury County15
- Yankton County15
- Clark County15
- Codington County15
- Deuel County15
- Hamlin County15
- McCook County14
- Union County13
- Clay County12
- Minnehaha County12
- Lake County11
- Turner County11
- Lincoln County11
- Moody County10
- Brookings County9
The latest high wind watches
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 10, 11:57 PM CDT | High Wind Watch | FSD | Aurora, Beadle, Bon Homme, Brookings, Brule, Charles Mix and 18 more | 21 hr |
| Mar 10, 1:17 PM CDT | High Wind Watch | ABR | Brown, Buffalo, Campbell, Corson, Dewey, Edmunds and 12 more | 25 hr |
| Mar 10, 1:09 PM CDT | High Wind Watch | UNR | Bennett, Butte, Custer, Fall River, Haakon, Harding and 10 more | 23 hr |
| Feb 16, 10:05 PM CST | High Wind Watch | UNR | Butte, Harding, Meade, Perkins, Ziebach | 6 hr |
| Feb 15, 10:24 PM CST | High Wind Watch | UNR | Custer, Fall River, Oglala Lakota | 19 hr |
| Jan 17, 2:22 AM CST | High Wind Watch | UNR | Butte, Custer, Fall River, Haakon, Harding, Jackson and 6 more | 11 hr |
| Jan 14, 2:54 AM CST | High Wind Watch | UNR | Bennett, Butte, Custer, Fall River, Haakon, Harding and 10 more | 24 hr |
| Jan 14, 2:34 AM CST | High Wind Watch | ABR | Buffalo, Campbell, Corson, Dewey, Edmunds, Faulk and 10 more | 33 hr |
| Jan 14, 2:31 AM CST | High Wind Watch | FSD | Aurora, Brule, Charles Mix, Douglas, Gregory, Jerauld | 35 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.