Blizzard Warnings in South Dakota
171 blizzard warnings since 1986. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of blizzard warnings reaches back to 2005.
Blizzard Warnings by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Blizzard Warnings
- 171
- Busiest year
- 201916 blizzard warnings
- Average year
- 8over 22 years on file
Over time
By year
Before late 2005 the archive holds only tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings, and from 1997 SPC's watches, so the jump that year is the archive widening, not the weather.
By month of the year
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Day County63
- Marshall County63
- Roberts County63
- Grant County60
- Deuel County54
- Codington County53
- Hamlin County52
- Clark County51
- Spink County45
- Brown County44
- Brookings County41
- Edmunds County39
- Faulk County39
- McPherson County39
- Walworth County39
- Beadle County37
- Campbell County37
- Kingsbury County36
- Hand County35
- Potter County35
- Hyde County33
- Buffalo County32
- Moody County32
- Sully County32
- Aurora County31
- Hughes County31
- Jerauld County31
- Sanborn County31
- Corson County31
- Dewey County31
- Brule County30
- Davison County30
- Jones County30
- Lake County30
- Miner County30
- Stanley County30
- Douglas County29
- Lyman County29
- Hanson County28
- Charles Mix County27
26 more counties
- Gregory County27
- Hutchinson County27
- McCook County25
- Lincoln County23
- Mellette County23
- Todd County23
- Meade County23
- Pennington County23
- Clay County22
- Minnehaha County22
- Tripp County22
- Union County22
- Yankton County21
- Haakon County21
- Bon Homme County20
- Jackson County20
- Ziebach County19
- Turner County18
- Butte County18
- Harding County18
- Perkins County17
- Lawrence County16
- Oglala Lakota County16
- Bennett County15
- Custer County15
- Fall River County6
The latest blizzard warnings
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 13, 9:20 PM CDT | Blizzard Warning | FSD | Aurora, Beadle, Bon Homme, Brookings, Brule, Charles Mix and 18 more | 56 hr |
| Mar 13, 2:23 PM CDT | Blizzard Warning | ABR | Brown, Buffalo, Clark, Codington, Day, Deuel and 17 more | 50 hr |
| Feb 18, 4:36 AM CST | Blizzard Warning | ABR | Brown, Campbell, Clark, Day, Edmunds, Faulk and 3 more | 10 hr |
| Jan 21, 10:13 AM CST | Blizzard Warning | FSD | Beadle, Brookings, Kingsbury, Lake, Moody | 8 hr |
| Jan 18, 2:12 AM CST | Blizzard Warning | ABR | Day, Grant, Marshall, Roberts | 19 hr |
Nearby
Sources
National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Rebuilt daily.