Alert archive / South Dakota / High Wind Watches
High Wind Watches in South Dakota, 2012
10 high wind watches in 2012. 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 in 2012. Tap one for its archive.
- High Wind Watches
- 10
- Busiest month
- October4 high wind watches
- Busiest day
- February 21, 20122 high wind watches
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 21, 4:45 AM CST | High Wind Watch | UNR | Butte, Haakon, Harding, Lawrence, Meade, Pennington and 2 more | 11 hr |
| Feb 21, 3:33 PM CST | High Wind Watch | UNR | Butte, Harding, Lawrence, Meade, Pennington, Perkins | 23 hr |
| Mar 25, 3:19 PM CDT | High Wind Watch | ABR | Brown, Buffalo, Campbell, Clark, Codington, Corson and 20 more | 20 hr |
| Mar 25, 3:40 PM CDT | High Wind Watch | UNR | Bennett, Butte, Custer, Fall River, Haakon, Harding and 7 more | 20 hr |
| May 18, 4:38 AM CDT | High Wind Watch | UNR | Butte, Custer, Lawrence, Meade, Pennington | 11 hr |
| Oct 15, 4:04 AM CDT | High Wind Watch | UNR | Bennett, Butte, Custer, Fall River, Haakon, Harding and 10 more | 49 hr |
| Oct 15, 10:28 AM CDT | High Wind Watch | ABR | Buffalo, Campbell, Corson, Dewey, Edmunds, Faulk and 10 more | 26 hr |
| Oct 16, 12:04 PM CDT | High Wind Watch | ABR | Brown, Clark, Codington, Day, Deuel, Grant and 4 more | 27 hr |
| Oct 16, 2:46 PM CDT | High Wind Watch | FSD | Aurora, Beadle, Bon Homme, Brule, Charles Mix, Davison and 7 more | 24 hr |
| Nov 21, 4:21 AM CST | High Wind Watch | UNR | Bennett, Butte, Haakon, Harding, Jackson, Lawrence and 7 more | 11 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Butte County6
- Lawrence County6
- Meade County6
- Pennington County6
- Harding County5
- Perkins County5
- Haakon County4
- Ziebach County4
- Bennett County3
- Custer County3
- Jackson County3
- Brown County2
- Buffalo County2
- Campbell County2
- Clark County2
- Codington County2
- Corson County2
- Day County2
- Deuel County2
- Dewey County2
- Edmunds County2
- Faulk County2
- Grant County2
- Hamlin County2
- Hand County2
- Hughes County2
- Hyde County2
- Jones County2
- Lyman County2
- McPherson County2
- Marshall County2
- Potter County2
- Roberts County2
- Spink County2
- Stanley County2
- Sully County2
- Walworth County2
- Fall River County2
- Oglala Lakota County2
- Mellette County2
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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.