May 20—SIOUX FALLS — Last Thursday's derecho quite literally swept across eastern South Dakota, bringing straight-line winds of over 100 mph that damaged everything from trees and outbuildings to ...

It's not just heat impacting South Dakota this week. Sioux Falls is in line for some extreme weather tonight, July 28, with the chance of a wind gusts reaching 80 mph or greater or the system evolving ...

A derecho – a large-scale wind storm with 90- to 100-mph straight winds and two tornados – blasted through eastern South Dakota and western Minnesota on May 12, 2022, killing one, damaging buildings ...

For the second time since mid-May, residents of southeastern South Dakota, including Sioux Falls, are picking up debris from backyards and fallen trees after another derecho moved its way through the ...

MOLINE, Ill. — It's official! Tuesday night's severe storm complex was a derecho. The powerful storm system comes less than a year after another strong derecho tore through the area back in December ...

SALEM, S.D. — On May 12, 2022, many farmers across eastern South Dakota saw significant damage to their operations as a widespread wind storm, known as a derecho, tore across the state. At Drew ...

Thunderstorms that swept across eastern South Dakota during the afternoon and evening of July 28 likely combined to form a derecho. Todd Heitkamp, meteorologist-in-charge at the National Weather ...