⚠️ Severe Thunderstorm Watch – Brown, SD; Buffalo, SD; Campbell, SD; Corson, SD; Dewey, SD; Edmunds, SD; Faulk, SD; Hand, SD; Hughes, SD; Hyde, SD; Jones, SD; Lyman, SD; McPherson, SD; Potter, SD; Spink, SD; Stanley, SD; Sully, SD; Walworth, SD – Monday, August 17, 2026

Event	Severe Thunderstorm Watch
Severity	Severe
Urgency	Future
Certainty	Possible
Area	Brown, SD; Buffalo, SD; Campbell, SD; Corson, SD; Dewey, SD; Edmunds, SD; Faulk, SD; Hand, SD; Hughes, SD; Hyde, SD; Jones, SD; Lyman, SD; McPherson, SD; Potter, SD; Spink, SD; Stanley, SD; Sully, SD; Walworth, SD
Effective	8/17/2026, 4:00:00 PM CDT
Expires	8/17/2026, 11:00:00 PM CDT

Severe Thunderstorm Watch issued August 17 at 4:00PM CDT until August 17 at 11:00PM CDT by NWS Aberdeen SD

Details

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH
591 IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM CDT /10 PM MDT/ THIS EVENING FOR THE
FOLLOWING AREAS

IN SOUTH DAKOTA THIS WATCH INCLUDES 18 COUNTIES

IN CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA

BUFFALO HAND HUGHES
HYDE JONES LYMAN
STANLEY SULLY

IN NORTH CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA

CAMPBELL CORSON DEWEY
EDMUNDS FAULK MCPHERSON
POTTER WALWORTH

IN NORTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA

BROWN SPINK

THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF ABERDEEN, EUREKA, FAULKTON,
FORT PIERRE, FORT THOMPSON, GETTYSBURG, HERREID, HIGHMORE,
IPSWICH, ISABEL, KENNEBEC, MCINTOSH, MILLER, MOBRIDGE, MURDO,
ONIDA, PIERRE, AND REDFIELD.

This alert was automatically posted by SkyGuard, MWSC’s severe weather alerting system. Source: National Weather Service.