Alert archive / South Dakota / Blizzard Warnings
Blizzard Warnings in South Dakota, 2018
12 blizzard warnings in 2018. 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 2018. Tap one for its archive.
- Blizzard Warnings
- 12
- Busiest month
- March4 blizzard warnings
- Busiest day
- March 4, 20183 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 21, 3:41 AM CST | Blizzard Warning | FSD | Clay, Lincoln, Union, Yankton | 43 hr |
| Mar 4, 4:09 AM CST | Blizzard Warning | FSD | Aurora, Bon Homme, Brule, Charles Mix, Clay, Davison and 10 more | 59 hr |
| Mar 4, 4:22 AM CST | Blizzard Warning | UNR | Haakon, Harding, Jackson, Meade, Mellette, Perkins and 3 more | 56 hr |
| Mar 4, 4:40 AM CST | Blizzard Warning | ABR | Buffalo, Corson, Dewey, Hand, Hughes, Hyde and 6 more | 55 hr |
| Mar 30, 12:53 PM CDT | Blizzard Warning | ABR | Marshall, Roberts | 16 hr |
| Apr 12, 4:16 AM CDT | Blizzard Warning | UNR | Bennett, Custer, Haakon, Jackson, Meade, Mellette and 5 more | 57 hr |
| Apr 12, 11:48 AM CDT | Blizzard Warning | ABR | Brown, Buffalo, Campbell, Clark, Codington, Corson and 20 more | 55 hr |
| Apr 12, 3:45 PM CDT | Blizzard Warning | FSD | Aurora, Beadle, Bon Homme, Brookings, Brule, Charles Mix and 18 more | 60 hr |
| Dec 26, 3:16 PM CST | Blizzard Warning | ABR | Brown, Buffalo, Campbell, Clark, Codington, Day and 18 more | 45 hr |
| Dec 26, 3:32 PM CST | Blizzard Warning | UNR | Mellette, Todd, Tripp | 38 hr |
| Dec 31, 4:54 AM CST | Blizzard Warning | UNR | Meade, Pennington | 6 hr |
| Dec 31, 6:00 AM CST | Blizzard Warning | ABR | Brown, Clark, Codington, Day, Deuel, Grant and 4 more | 12 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Marshall County4
- Roberts County4
- Clay County3
- Lincoln County3
- Union County3
- Yankton County3
- Meade County3
- Mellette County3
- Todd County3
- Tripp County3
- Buffalo County3
- Hand County3
- Hughes County3
- Hyde County3
- Jones County3
- Lyman County3
- Potter County3
- Stanley County3
- Sully County3
- Walworth County3
- Brown County3
- Clark County3
- Codington County3
- Day County3
- Deuel County3
- Grant County3
- Hamlin County3
- Spink County3
- Aurora County2
- Bon Homme County2
- Brule County2
- Charles Mix County2
- Davison County2
- Douglas County2
- Gregory County2
- Hanson County2
- Hutchinson County2
- Jerauld County2
- McCook County2
- Turner County2
23 more counties
- Haakon County2
- Jackson County2
- Ziebach County2
- Corson County2
- Dewey County2
- Pennington County2
- Campbell County2
- Edmunds County2
- Faulk County2
- McPherson County2
- Harding County1
- Perkins County1
- Bennett County1
- Custer County1
- Oglala Lakota County1
- Beadle County1
- Brookings County1
- Kingsbury County1
- Lake County1
- Miner County1
- Minnehaha County1
- Moody County1
- Sanborn 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.