A tight pressure gradient resulted in isolated non-thunderstorm high winds across portions of southeast South Dakota during April 30, 2022.
Every event with a place to put it; 2 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The episode as NWS FSD wrote it up.
A tight pressure gradient resulted in isolated non-thunderstorm high winds across portions of southeast South Dakota during April 30, 2022.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Sioux Falls, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 30, 5:37 AM CST, 23 minutes earlier.
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</html>Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service Sioux Falls SD 439 AM CDT Sat Apr 30 2022 IAZ001>003-012>014-021-022-032-MNZ071-072-080-081-089-090-097-098- SDZ039-040-054>056-061-062-067-010945- Lyon-Osceola-Dickinson-Sioux-O'Brien-Clay-Cherokee-Buena Vista-Ida- Lincoln-Murray-Cottonwood-Nobles-Jackson-Pipestone-Rock-Kingsbury- Brookings-Miner-Lake-Moody-McCook-Minnehaha- 439 AM CDT Sat Apr 30 2022 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for northwest Iowa, west central Iowa, southwest Minnesota, east central South Dakota and southeast South Dakota. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. On and off showers and thunderstorms will be likely through the evening, with brief heavy downpours possible at times. Northwesterly winds will also be quite breezy today, with gusts as high as 35 to 45 mph. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Sunday through Friday. Breezy northwesterly winds continue Sunday, with gusts between 25 to 35 mph possible at times. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time. SDZ052-057-058-063-064-010945- Jerauld-Brule-Aurora-Charles Mix-Douglas- 439 AM CDT Sat Apr 30 2022 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for central South Dakota and south central South Dakota. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. On and off showers and thunderstorms will be likely through the evening, with brief heavy downpours possible at times. Northwesterly winds will also be quite breezy today, with gusts as high as 45 to 55 mph. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Sunday through Friday. Breezy northwesterly winds continue Sunday, with gusts between 25 to 35 mph possible at times. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time. IAZ020-031-NEZ013-014-SDZ038-053-059-060-065-066-068>071-010945- Plymouth-Woodbury-Dixon-Dakota-Beadle-Sanborn-Davison-Hanson- Hutchinson-Turner-Bon Homme-Yankton-Clay-Union- 439 AM CDT Sat Apr 30 2022 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for northwest Iowa, west central Iowa, northeast Nebraska, east central South Dakota and southeast South Dakota. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. On and off showers and thunderstorms will be likely through the evening, with brief heavy downpours possible at times. Northwesterly winds will also be quite breezy today, with gusts as high as 45 to 55 mph. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Sunday through Friday. Breezy northwesterly winds continue Sunday, with gusts between 25 to 35 mph possible at times. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time. SDZ050-010945- Gregory- 439 AM CDT Sat Apr 30 2022 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for south central South Dakota. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. On and off showers and thunderstorms will be likely through the evening, with brief heavy downpours possible at times. Northwesterly winds will also be quite breezy today, with gusts as high as 60 mph. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Sunday through Friday. Breezy northwesterly winds continue Sunday, with gusts between 25 to 35 mph possible at times. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Sustained winds reached 40 to 50 mph for much of the day, with a peak wind gust of 60 mph at the South Dakota Road Weather Information System at Fort Randall Dam (station SD588).
The South Dakota Road Weather Information System site at the Platte-Winner Bridge (station SD554) briefly gusted to 63 mph around 1400 CST.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in South Dakota in 2022Every state in 2022This day in weather historyWarnings in South Dakota, April 2022
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 1019274, 1019273.