Alert archive / South Dakota / Blizzard Warnings
Blizzard Warnings in South Dakota, 2023
13 blizzard warnings in 2023. 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 2023. Tap one for its archive.
- Blizzard Warnings
- 13
- Busiest month
- March4 blizzard warnings
- Busiest day
- December 24, 20233 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 14, 3:00 AM CST | Blizzard Warning | ABR | Clark, Codington, Day, Deuel, Grant, Hamlin and 2 more | 31 hr |
| Feb 21, 2:41 AM CST | Blizzard Warning | ABR | Brown, Buffalo, Campbell, Clark, Codington, Day and 15 more | 57 hr |
| Feb 21, 2:52 AM CST | Blizzard Warning | FSD | Aurora, Beadle, Brookings, Davison, Douglas, Hanson and 11 more | 57 hr |
| Mar 30, 2:43 PM CDT | Blizzard Warning | ABR | Brown, Buffalo, Campbell, Clark, Codington, Corson and 20 more | 36 hr |
| Mar 30, 3:01 PM CDT | Blizzard Warning | FSD | Aurora, Beadle, Brookings, Brule, Charles Mix, Davison and 8 more | 38 hr |
| Mar 31, 3:31 AM CDT | Blizzard Warning | UNR | Mellette, Todd, Tripp | 12 hr |
| Mar 31, 6:56 PM CDT | Blizzard Warning | ABR | Campbell, Corson | 2 min |
| Apr 2, 3:03 PM CDT | Blizzard Warning | UNR | Bennett, Butte, Custer, Fall River, Haakon, Harding and 10 more | 59 hr |
| Apr 3, 3:32 AM CDT | Blizzard Warning | ABR | Brown, Buffalo, Campbell, Clark, Corson, Day and 17 more | 69 hr |
| Apr 3, 2:42 PM CDT | Blizzard Warning | FSD | Beadle, Brule, Jerauld | 31 hr |
| Dec 24, 3:08 AM CST | Blizzard Warning | UNR | Bennett, Custer, Haakon, Jackson, Meade, Mellette and 6 more | 66 hr |
| Dec 24, 3:27 AM CST | Blizzard Warning | FSD | Aurora, Beadle, Bon Homme, Brule, Charles Mix, Davison and 7 more | 47 hr |
| Dec 24, 2:12 PM CST | Blizzard Warning | ABR | Buffalo, Campbell, Corson, Dewey, Edmunds, Faulk and 10 more | 52 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Campbell County5
- Clark County4
- Day County4
- Grant County4
- Marshall County4
- Roberts County4
- Buffalo County4
- Edmunds County4
- Faulk County4
- Hand County4
- Hughes County4
- Hyde County4
- McPherson County4
- Potter County4
- Sully County4
- Walworth County4
- Beadle County4
- Jerauld County4
- Corson County4
- Codington County3
- Deuel County3
- Hamlin County3
- Brown County3
- Spink County3
- Aurora County3
- Davison County3
- Douglas County3
- Sanborn County3
- Dewey County3
- Jones County3
- Lyman County3
- Stanley County3
- Brule County3
- Mellette County3
- Todd County3
- Tripp County3
- Brookings County2
- Hanson County2
- Hutchinson County2
- Kingsbury County2
24 more counties
- Lake County2
- Miner County2
- Moody County2
- Charles Mix County2
- Gregory County2
- Bennett County2
- Custer County2
- Haakon County2
- Jackson County2
- Meade County2
- Oglala Lakota County2
- Pennington County2
- Perkins County2
- Ziebach County2
- Lincoln County1
- McCook County1
- Minnehaha County1
- Turner County1
- Butte County1
- Fall River County1
- Harding County1
- Lawrence County1
- Bon Homme County1
- Yankton County1
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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.