High Wind and Strong Wind in South Dakota, November 25 to 26, 2025

Name: High Wind and Strong Wind in South Dakota, November 25 to 26, 2025
Start: 2025-11-25T09:45
End: 2025-11-26T03:00
Location: South Dakota

November 25 to 26, 2025 · NWS FSD · 27 events in 23 counties and zones

Where it happened

Every event with a place to put it; 27 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 27

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.

What happened

The episode as NWS FSD wrote it up.

Intense low pressure developed across northern South Dakota and pushed eastward into Minnesota on the night of November 25-26. A very intense pressure gradient on the western flank of the system produced widespread winds which gusted from 50 to 75 mph, with the highest wind gusts noted through the Missouri River corridor and along the Buffalo Ridge. Light snowfall wrapped through areas of east central South Dakota and southwest Minnesota during the afternoon and evening, with amounts varying from a dusting along Interstate 90 to 1 to 2 inches near U.S. Highway 14. Combined with the strong winds, visibility briefly dropped to one-half mile or less in numerous locations north of Interstate 90.

What forecasters said that day

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 Nov 25, 6:45 AM CST, 3 hours earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 25, 6:45 AM CST, 3 hours before

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Event by event

15 high wind, 9 strong wind, 3 winter weather. Local standard time, as filed.

High Wind, Gregory

When: November 25, 9:45 AM CST to 4:00 PM CST
Where: Gregory forecast zone
Measured: 65 kt (75 mph) measured gust
Reported by: Department of Highways
Coordinates: 43.192, -99.186 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Sustained winds reached 40 to 47 mph, with gusts measured on South Dakota Road Weather Information System sites as high as 75 mph at Fort Randall Dam, 64 mph 2 miles east of Dixon, and 64 mph at Dallas. The South Dakota Mesonet site 16 miles north of Gregory measured a gust to 60 mph.

High Wind, Brule

When: November 25, 9:45 AM CST to 4:00 PM CST
Where: Brule forecast zone
Measured: 38 kt (44 mph) measured sustained
Reported by: Department of Highways
Coordinates: 43.718, -99.081 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Sustained winds periodically climbed over 40 mph and reached a peak of 44 mph at a South Dakota Road Weather Information System site at Kimball.

High Wind, Charles Mix

When: November 25, 10:00 AM CST to 3:00 PM CST
Where: Charles Mix forecast zone
Measured: 56 kt (64 mph) measured gust
Reported by: Department of Highways
Coordinates: 43.208, -98.588 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Sustained winds reached 40 to 46 mph, with gusts measured as high as 65 mph at the South Dakota Road Weather Information System site at the Platte-Winner Bridge 13 miles west of Platte, 61 mph at RAWS site 3 miles west of Geddes, and 58 mph at the Automated Weather Observing System site near Wagner.

Strong Wind, Jerauld

When: November 25, 11:00 AM CST to 5:30 PM CST
Where: Jerauld forecast zone
Measured: 48 kt (55 mph) measured gust
Reported by: Department of Highways
Coordinates: 44.066, -98.630 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Sustained winds were from 30 to 39 mph, with a peak gust of 55 mph at the South Dakota Road Weather Information System site near Lane and 48 mph at the Automated Weather Observing System site in Wessington Springs.

High Wind, Douglas

When: November 25, 12:00 PM CST to 4:30 PM CST
Where: Douglas forecast zone
Measured: 52 kt (60 mph) measured gust
Reported by: Department of Highways
Coordinates: 43.387, -98.366 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Sustained winds reached 40 to 44 mph at times with a peak gust of 60 mph at a South Dakota Road Weather Information System site 3 miles south of Corsica.

Strong Wind, Beadle

When: November 25, 12:00 PM CST to 5:30 PM CST
Where: Beadle forecast zone
Measured: 48 kt (55 mph) measured gust
Reported by: ASOS
Coordinates: 44.415, -98.278 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Sustained winds were from 30 to 39 mph, with a peak gust of 55 mph at the Automated Surface Observing System site in Huron and 52 mph at the South Dakota Road Weather Information System site near Cavour.

High Wind, Aurora

When: November 25, 12:00 PM CST to 3:00 PM CST
Where: Aurora forecast zone
Measured: 36 kt (41 mph) measured sustained
Reported by: Mesonet
Coordinates: 43.718, -98.561 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Sustained winds reached as high as 42 mph at a South Dakota Mesonet site near White Lake.

Strong Wind, Davison

When: November 25, 12:00 PM CST to 7:00 PM CST
Where: Davison forecast zone
Measured: 49 kt (56 mph) measured gust
Reported by: ASOS
Coordinates: 43.675, -98.146 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Sustained winds were from 30 to 39 mph, with a peak gust of 56 mph at the Automated Surface Observing System site in Mitchell and 52 mph at the South Dakota Mesonet site near Mount Vernon.

High Wind, Bon Homme

When: November 25, 12:30 PM CST to 1:30 PM CST
Where: Bon Homme forecast zone
Measured: 35 kt (40 mph) measured sustained
Reported by: Department of Highways
Coordinates: 42.988, -97.885 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Sustained winds reached around 40 mph at times at a South Dakota Road Weather Information System site 5 miles east-southeast of Tyndall.

Winter Weather, Beadle

When: November 25, 12:30 PM CST to 4:00 PM CST
Where: Beadle forecast zone
Reported by: ASOS
Coordinates: 44.415, -98.278 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Gusty winds from 40 to 55 mph along with a period of afternoon snowfall which totaled 2.0 inches near Wessington and 1.4 inches at Huron led to visibility briefly as low as one-quarter to one-half mile.

High Wind, Yankton

When: November 25, 1:00 PM CST to 7:30 PM CST
Where: Yankton forecast zone
Measured: 38 kt (44 mph) measured sustained
Reported by: Department of Highways
Coordinates: 43.009, -97.395 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Sustained winds periodically reached 40 to 44 mph at a South Dakota Road Weather Information System site near Gayville with a peak gust of 59 mph. An Automated Weather Observing System site at Yankton measured sustained winds up to 44 mph.

Strong Wind, Kingsbury

When: November 25, 1:00 PM CST to 10:30 PM CST
Where: Kingsbury forecast zone
Measured: 49 kt (56 mph) measured gust
Reported by: Mesonet
Coordinates: 44.370, -97.491 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Sustained winds were from 30 to 39 mph, with a peak gust of 56 mph at the South Dakota Mesonet site 7 miles north-northwest of DeSmet and 53 mph at the South Dakota Road Weather Information System site near Arlington.

High Wind, Clay

When: November 25, 1:30 PM CST to 5:00 PM CST
Where: Clay forecast zone
Measured: 51 kt (59 mph) measured gust
Reported by: Department of Highways
Coordinates: 42.915, -96.976 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Sustained winds periodically reached around 40 mph at a South Dakota Road Weather Information System site 4 miles east of Irene with a peak gust of 59 mph.

High Wind, Turner

When: November 25, 1:30 PM CST to 5:00 PM CST
Where: Turner forecast zone
Measured: 51 kt (59 mph) measured gust
Reported by: Department of Highways
Coordinates: 43.311, -97.149 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Sustained winds periodically reached around 40 mph at a South Dakota Road Weather Information System site 4 miles east of Irene with a peak gust of 59 mph.

High Wind, Hanson

When: November 25, 1:30 PM CST to 4:30 PM CST
Where: Hanson forecast zone
Measured: 36 kt (41 mph) measured sustained
Reported by: Department of Highways
Coordinates: 43.675, -97.787 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Sustained winds periodically reached from 40 to 42 mph at a South Dakota Road Weather Information System site 4 miles east-northeast of Alexandria.

Strong Wind, Miner

When: November 25, 1:30 PM CST to 9:00 PM CST
Where: Miner forecast zone
Measured: 49 kt (56 mph) measured gust
Reported by: Department of Highways
Coordinates: 44.022, -97.610 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Sustained winds were from 30 to 39 mph, with a peak gust of 56 mph at the South Dakota Road Weather Information System site near Howard.

High Wind, McCook

When: November 25, 2:00 PM CST to 5:00 PM CST
Where: McCook forecast zone
Measured: 55 kt (63 mph) measured gust
Reported by: Department of Highways
Coordinates: 43.674, -97.368 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Sustained winds periodically reached from 40 to 46 mph at a South Dakota Road Weather Information System site 2 miles southeast of Montrose with a peak wind gust of 63 mph.

High Wind, Sanborn

When: November 25, 2:00 PM CST to 3:00 PM CST
Where: Sanborn forecast zone
Measured: 52 kt (60 mph) measured gust
Reported by: Department of Highways
Coordinates: 44.023, -98.091 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Sustained winds periodically reached from 40 to 44 mph at a South Dakota Road Weather Information System site 8 miles east of Alpena with a peak wind gust of 60 mph.

Strong Wind, Brookings

When: November 25, 2:00 PM CST to November 26, 2:00 AM CST
Where: Brookings forecast zone
Measured: 45 kt (52 mph) measured gust
Reported by: Mesonet
Coordinates: 44.370, -96.790 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Sustained winds were from 30 to 39 mph, with a peak gust of 52 mph at the South Dakota Mesonet site near Volga and 49 mph at Brookings.

Strong Wind, Lake

When: November 25, 2:00 PM CST to 11:30 PM CST
Where: Lake forecast zone
Measured: 47 kt (54 mph) measured gust
Reported by: AWOS
Coordinates: 44.022, -97.129 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Sustained winds were from 30 to 37 mph, with a peak gust of 54 mph at the South Dakota Road Weather Information System site near Madison and 53 mph at the Automated Weather Observing System site at Madison.

Winter Weather, Kingsbury

When: November 25, 2:00 PM CST to 7:00 PM CST
Where: Kingsbury forecast zone
Reported by: AWOS
Coordinates: 44.370, -97.491 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Gusty winds from 40 to 55 mph along with a period of afternoon snowfall which measured up to one inch at De Smet led to visibility as low as one-half mile.

High Wind, Union

When: November 25, 2:30 PM CST to 5:00 PM CST
Where: Union forecast zone
Measured: 36 kt (41 mph) measured sustained
Reported by: Department of Highways
Coordinates: 42.833, -96.656 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Sustained winds reached as high as 40 to 42 mph at times at the South Dakota Road Weather Information System sites 4 miles south of Beresford and North Sioux City, with a peak gust of 58 mph in North Sioux City.

High Wind, Hutchinson

When: November 25, 3:00 PM CST to 4:30 PM CST
Where: Hutchinson forecast zone
Measured: 51 kt (59 mph) measured gust
Reported by: Department of Highways
Coordinates: 43.335, -97.754 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Sustained winds reached around 40 mph with a peak gust of 59 mph at a South Dakota Road Weather Information System site near Tripp.

High Wind, Lincoln

When: November 25, 3:00 PM CST to 4:00 PM CST
Where: Lincoln forecast zone
Measured: 51 kt (59 mph) measured gust
Reported by: Department of Highways
Coordinates: 43.279, -96.722 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Sustained winds periodically reached around 40 mph at a South Dakota Road Weather Information System site 7 miles east of Davis with a peak wind gust of 59 mph.

Strong Wind, Moody

When: November 25, 3:00 PM CST to November 26, 3:00 AM CST
Where: Moody forecast zone
Measured: 44 kt (51 mph) measured gust
Reported by: Mesonet
Coordinates: 44.022, -96.671 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Sustained winds were from 30 to 36 mph, with a peak gust of 51 mph at the South Dakota Mesonet site near Flandreau.

Strong Wind, Beadle

When: November 25, 3:00 PM CST to November 26, 12:30 AM CST
Where: Beadle forecast zone
Measured: 47 kt (54 mph) measured gust
Reported by: ASOS
Coordinates: 44.415, -98.278 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Sustained winds were from 30 to 36 mph, with a peak gust of 54 mph at the Automated Surface Observing System site in Sioux Falls.

Winter Weather, Brookings

When: November 25, 3:30 PM CST to 7:30 PM CST
Where: Brookings forecast zone
Reported by: AWOS
Coordinates: 44.370, -96.790 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

Gusty winds from 40 to 55 mph along with a period of late afternoon snowfall which totaled 1 to 2 inches around Brookings led to visibility as low as one-half mile near Brookings and Volga.

What these are

High Wind: Sustained non-thunderstorm winds of 40 mph or more for an hour, or gusts of 58 mph or more.
Strong Wind: Non-thunderstorm winds below high wind criteria that nonetheless caused damage or casualties.
Winter Weather: Snow, sleet or freezing rain below warning levels that still caused disruption, damage or casualties.

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The same day elsewhere

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Sources

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: 1299596, 1299597, 1299598, 1299612, 1299599, 1299611, 1299613, 1299614, 1299601, 1299705, 1299602, 1299615, 1299603, 1299604, 1299609, 1299616, 1299607, 1299610, 1299617, 1299618, 1299704, 1299605, 1299600, 1299606, 1299619, 1299620, 1299703.