Alert archive / South Dakota / Mesoscale Discussions / 2021
Mesoscale Discussions in South Dakota, August 2021
35 mesoscale discussions in August 2021. 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 mesoscale discussions reaches back to 2003.
Mesoscale Discussions by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in August 2021. Tap one for its archive.
- Mesoscale Discussions
- 35
- Busiest day
- August 26, 20215 mesoscale discussions
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 5, 3:40 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brookings, Deuel | 65 min |
| Aug 5, 9:34 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Lincoln, Minnehaha, Turner, Union | 86 min |
| Aug 6, 6:07 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bennett, Jackson, Mellette, Oglala Lakota, Todd | 113 min |
| Aug 6, 9:09 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aurora, Bon Homme, Brule, Buffalo, Charles Mix, Clay and 17 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 6, 11:54 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beadle, Clay, Davison, Hamlin, Hanson, Hutchinson and 10 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 7, 2:10 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brookings, Clark, Codington, Day, Deuel, Grant and 3 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 7, 7:12 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brown, Day, Marshall | 93 min |
| Aug 14, 1:50 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bennett, Custer, Fall River, Jackson, Oglala Lakota, Pennington | 115 min |
| Aug 20, 1:51 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Lincoln, Union, Yankton | 84 min |
| Aug 22, 2:21 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beadle, Brown, Buffalo, Campbell, Edmunds, Faulk and 8 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 22, 3:38 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Gregory, Tripp | 97 min |
| Aug 22, 5:59 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beadle, Brookings, Brown, Campbell, Clark, Codington and 11 more | 91 min |
| Aug 22, 8:40 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aurora, Davison, Douglas, Hanson, Hutchinson, Jerauld and 2 more | 65 min |
| Aug 23, 2:56 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aurora, Brule, Buffalo, Charles Mix, Gregory, Jones and 4 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 23, 7:38 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aurora, Beadle, Brule, Buffalo, Campbell, Corson and 22 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 23, 9:37 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aurora, Beadle, Brule, Buffalo, Campbell, Charles Mix and 21 more | 113 min |
| Aug 23, 11:32 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brown, Campbell, Clark, Codington, Day, Edmunds and 8 more | 118 min |
| Aug 25, 3:02 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bon Homme, Charles Mix, Clay, Hutchinson, Lincoln, Turner and 2 more | 88 min |
| Aug 26, 2:35 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brown, Campbell, Corson, Dewey, Edmunds, Faulk and 6 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 26, 3:10 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bon Homme, Charles Mix, Clay, Hutchinson, Turner, Yankton | 3 hr |
| Aug 26, 8:36 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Beadle, Brookings, Buffalo, Clark, Codington, Day and 10 more | 84 min |
| Aug 26, 10:43 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brookings, Deuel, Moody | 92 min |
| Aug 26, 5:34 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Clay, Lincoln, Turner, Union, Yankton | 116 min |
| Aug 26, 7:25 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aurora, Bennett, Bon Homme, Brule, Buffalo, Charles Mix and 22 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 26, 10:45 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Union | 2 hr |
| Aug 27, 3:55 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Butte, Harding, Perkins | 2 hr |
| Aug 27, 6:33 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Butte, Perkins, Ziebach | 117 min |
| Aug 28, 2:17 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brown, Day, Edmunds, Grant, McPherson, Marshall and 1 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 28, 5:42 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brown, Clark, Codington, Day, Deuel, Edmunds and 8 more | 2 hr |
| Aug 28, 2:43 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bon Homme, Clay, Hanson, Hutchinson, Lake, Lincoln and 6 more | 3 hr |
| Aug 28, 7:44 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Brookings, Lake, Moody | 91 min |
| Aug 30, 2:50 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Bennett, Custer, Fall River, Jackson, Lawrence, Meade and 2 more | 115 min |
| Aug 30, 2:54 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Campbell, Corson | 2 hr |
| Aug 30, 7:25 PM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Aurora, Bennett, Bon Homme, Brule, Buffalo, Charles Mix and 18 more | 3 hr |
| Aug 31, 3:02 AM CDT | Mesoscale Discussion | SPC | Gregory | 118 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Clay County9
- Jerauld County9
- Buffalo County8
- Gregory County8
- Hutchinson County8
- Yankton County8
- Spink County8
- Edmunds County8
- McPherson County8
- Turner County7
- Aurora County7
- Charles Mix County7
- Davison County7
- Sanborn County7
- Tripp County7
- Day County7
- Brown County7
- Campbell County7
- Faulk County7
- Brookings County6
- Lincoln County6
- Union County6
- Mellette County6
- Bon Homme County6
- Brule County6
- Jones County6
- Lyman County6
- Beadle County6
- Hand County6
- Hyde County6
- Potter County6
- Walworth County6
- Deuel County5
- Bennett County5
- Jackson County5
- Douglas County5
- Hamlin County5
- Clark County5
- Codington County5
- Marshall County5
26 more counties
- Hughes County5
- Roberts County5
- Minnehaha County4
- Oglala Lakota County4
- Todd County4
- Hanson County4
- Lake County4
- Miner County4
- Grant County4
- Moody County4
- Corson County4
- Stanley County4
- Sully County4
- McCook County3
- Kingsbury County3
- Custer County3
- Fall River County3
- Pennington County3
- Dewey County3
- Haakon County3
- Ziebach County3
- Perkins County3
- Harding County2
- Butte County2
- Lawrence County1
- Meade County1
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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.