Alert archive / South Dakota / High Wind Watches
High Wind Watches in South Dakota, 2016
10 high wind watches in 2016. 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 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- High Wind Watches
- 10
- Busiest month
- February7 high wind watches
- Busiest day
- February 5, 20163 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 5, 3:48 AM CST | High Wind Watch | UNR | Bennett, Butte, Custer, Haakon, Harding, Jackson and 8 more | 23 hr |
| Feb 5, 3:56 AM CST | High Wind Watch | ABR | Brown, Buffalo, Campbell, Corson, Dewey, Edmunds and 12 more | 24 hr |
| Feb 5, 3:57 AM CST | High Wind Watch | FSD | Aurora, Beadle, Bon Homme, Brule, Charles Mix, Davison and 6 more | 35 hr |
| Feb 17, 3:02 PM CST | High Wind Watch | UNR | Butte, Haakon, Harding, Lawrence, Meade, Pennington and 2 more | 14 hr |
| Feb 18, 3:38 AM CST | High Wind Watch | ABR | Campbell, Corson, Dewey, Hughes, Jones, Lyman and 4 more | 10 hr |
| Feb 18, 3:46 AM CST | High Wind Watch | FSD | Brule, Charles Mix, Gregory | 11 hr |
| Feb 18, 5:13 AM CST | High Wind Watch | UNR | Mellette, Todd, Tripp | 10 hr |
| Apr 4, 3:52 AM CDT | High Wind Watch | UNR | Bennett, Butte, Custer, Fall River, Haakon, Harding and 7 more | 25 hr |
| Sep 23, 2:39 PM CDT | High Wind Watch | UNR | Butte, Harding, Meade, Perkins | 14 hr |
| Oct 30, 3:58 AM CDT | High Wind Watch | UNR | Butte, Harding, Meade, Perkins, Ziebach | 24 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Butte County5
- Harding County5
- Meade County5
- Perkins County5
- Ziebach County4
- Haakon County3
- Lawrence County3
- Pennington County3
- Bennett County2
- Custer County2
- Jackson County2
- Mellette County2
- Todd County2
- Tripp County2
- Campbell County2
- Corson County2
- Dewey County2
- Hughes County2
- Jones County2
- Lyman County2
- Potter County2
- Stanley County2
- Sully County2
- Walworth County2
- Brule County2
- Charles Mix County2
- Gregory County2
- Brown County1
- Buffalo County1
- Edmunds County1
- Faulk County1
- Hand County1
- Hyde County1
- McPherson County1
- Spink County1
- Aurora County1
- Beadle County1
- Bon Homme County1
- Davison County1
- Douglas County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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.