PIERRE — Severe Weather Awareness continues across South Dakota this week. Each of the week’s five days features a different aspect of severe weather. Monday highlighted the difference between watches and warnings while Tuesday featured severe storms and the multiple hazards they include like damaging winds, hail and especially lightning. Kelly Serr at the Nation Weather Service says tornadoes take center stage Wednesday. Normally on the Wednesday of Severe Weather Awareness Week the National Weather Service conducts a statewide tornado drill…
Thursday will feature Flash Flooding and Extreme Heat will end the week on Friday. Hughes/Stanley County Emergency Management tested the two county’s warning systems Tuesday morning.
