Alert archive / South Dakota / Blizzard Warnings
Blizzard Warnings in South Dakota, 2015
6 blizzard warnings in 2015. 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 in 2015. Tap one for its archive.
- Blizzard Warnings
- 6
- Busiest month
- January3 blizzard warnings
- Busiest day
- January 8, 20152 blizzard warnings
Over time
By month
The alerts
Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Central Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 3, 6:28 PM CST | Blizzard Warning | FSD | Clay, Union | 7 hr |
| Jan 8, 12:25 PM CST | Blizzard Warning | ABR | Clark, Codington, Day, Deuel, Grant, Hamlin and 2 more | 6 hr |
| Jan 8, 1:39 PM CST | Blizzard Warning | FSD | Beadle, Brookings, Davison, Hanson, Hutchinson, Kingsbury and 9 more | 8 hr |
| Mar 2, 2:31 PM CST | Blizzard Warning | ABR | Buffalo, Clark, Codington, Day, Deuel, Grant and 11 more | 22 hr |
| Mar 2, 2:39 PM CST | Blizzard Warning | FSD | Aurora, Beadle, Brookings, Brule, Jerauld, Kingsbury and 1 more | 20 hr |
| May 9, 3:41 PM CDT | Blizzard Warning | UNR | Butte, Meade, Pennington | 24 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Union County2
- Clark County2
- Codington County2
- Day County2
- Deuel County2
- Grant County2
- Hamlin County2
- Marshall County2
- Roberts County2
- Beadle County2
- Brookings County2
- Kingsbury County2
- Sanborn County2
- Clay County1
- Davison County1
- Hanson County1
- Hutchinson County1
- Lake County1
- Lincoln County1
- McCook County1
- Miner County1
- Minnehaha County1
- Moody County1
- Turner County1
- Buffalo County1
- Hand County1
- Hughes County1
- Hyde County1
- Jones County1
- Lyman County1
- Spink County1
- Stanley County1
- Sully County1
- Aurora County1
- Brule County1
- Jerauld County1
- Butte County1
- Meade County1
- Pennington County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
Nearby
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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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.