Alert archive / South Dakota / Blizzard Watches
Blizzard Watches in South Dakota, 2016
7 blizzard watches in 2016. 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 watches reaches back to 2005.
Blizzard Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 2016. Tap one for its archive.
- Blizzard Watches
- 7
- Busiest month
- February2 blizzard watches
- Busiest day
- February 5, 20162 blizzard watches
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 31, 3:23 AM CST | Blizzard Watch | FSD | Bon Homme, Clay, Hutchinson, Lincoln, McCook, Minnehaha and 4 more | 35 hr |
| Feb 5, 3:07 PM CST | Blizzard Watch | ABR | Clark, Codington, Day, Deuel, Grant, Hamlin and 2 more | 24 hr |
| Feb 5, 3:21 PM CST | Blizzard Watch | FSD | Brookings | 37 hr |
| Nov 16, 3:33 AM CST | Blizzard Watch | FSD | Beadle, Brookings, Jerauld, Kingsbury, Lake, Miner and 1 more | 24 hr |
| Nov 16, 3:39 AM CST | Blizzard Watch | ABR | Brown, Clark, Codington, Day, Deuel, Grant and 4 more | 24 hr |
| Dec 21, 2:54 PM CST | Blizzard Watch | UNR | Bennett, Butte, Custer, Haakon, Harding, Jackson and 7 more | 62 hr |
| Dec 22, 4:53 AM CST | Blizzard Watch | ABR | Campbell, Corson, Dewey, Jones, Stanley, Walworth | 34 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Clark County2
- Codington County2
- Day County2
- Deuel County2
- Grant County2
- Hamlin County2
- Marshall County2
- Roberts County2
- Brookings County2
- Bon Homme County1
- Clay County1
- Hutchinson County1
- Lincoln County1
- McCook County1
- Minnehaha County1
- Moody County1
- Turner County1
- Union County1
- Yankton County1
- Beadle County1
- Jerauld County1
- Kingsbury County1
- Lake County1
- Miner County1
- Sanborn County1
- Brown County1
- Spink County1
- Bennett County1
- Butte County1
- Custer County1
- Haakon County1
- Harding County1
- Jackson County1
- Lawrence County1
- Meade County1
- Mellette County1
- Oglala Lakota County1
- Pennington County1
- Perkins County1
- Ziebach 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.