With the help of diurnal heating, synoptic winds were boosted during the afternoon behind a cold front which brought a few light showers of rain and snow to the area.
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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.
With the help of diurnal heating, synoptic winds were boosted during the afternoon behind a cold front which brought a few light showers of rain and snow to the area.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
5 strong wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Winds were sustained from 25 to 33 mph at times, with gusts as high as 50 mph at South Dakota Road Weather Information System site SD589 4 miles east of Dixon and 49 mph at SD602 near Dallas.
Winds were sustained from 30 to 35 mph at times, with gusts as high as 54 mph at South Dakota Road Weather Information System site SD554 13 miles west of Platte.
Winds were sustained from 25 to 33 mph at times, with gusts as high as 51 mph at South Dakota Road Weather Information System site SD537 near Kimball.
Winds were sustained from 25 to 33 mph at times, with gusts as high as 49 mph at South Dakota Road Weather Information System site SD601 2 miles south of Corsica.
Winds were sustained from 25 to 30 mph at times, with gusts as high as 45 mph at South Dakota State University Mesonet site WTES2 near White Lake.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in South Dakota in 2023Every state in 2023This day in weather historyWarnings in South Dakota, December 2023
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 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 1151894, 1151897, 1151895, 1151899, 1151900.