Extreme Cold Warnings in South Dakota
21 extreme cold 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 extreme cold warnings reaches back to 2005.
Extreme Cold Warnings by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Extreme Cold Warnings
- 21
- Busiest year
- 202515 extreme cold warnings
- Average year
- 7over 3 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.
- Brookings County7
- Campbell County7
- Corson County7
- Moody County7
- Brown County6
- Kingsbury County6
- McPherson County6
- Marshall County6
- Roberts County6
- Lake County6
- Codington County5
- Day County5
- Deuel County5
- Edmunds County5
- Grant County5
- Hamlin County5
- Walworth County5
- Beadle County5
- Clark County4
- Dewey County4
- Faulk County4
- Potter County4
- Spink County4
- Harding County4
- Jerauld County4
- Miner County4
- Perkins County4
- Sanborn County4
- Butte County3
- Davison County3
- Hand County3
- Hanson County3
- Hyde County3
- McCook County3
- Meade County3
- Sully County3
- Union County3
- Ziebach County3
- Aurora County2
- Bon Homme County2
26 more counties
- Brule County2
- Buffalo County2
- Clay County2
- Gregory County2
- Haakon County2
- Hughes County2
- Hutchinson County2
- Jackson County2
- Jones County2
- Lawrence County2
- Lincoln County2
- Lyman County2
- Mellette County2
- Minnehaha County2
- Pennington County2
- Stanley County2
- Todd County2
- Tripp County2
- Turner County2
- Yankton County2
- Bennett County1
- Charles Mix County1
- Custer County1
- Douglas County1
- Fall River County1
- Oglala Lakota County1
The latest extreme cold warnings
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jan 23, 2:22 AM CST | Extreme Cold Warning | UNR | Harding, Perkins, Ziebach | 11 hr |
| Jan 22, 2:35 AM CST | Extreme Cold Warning | ABR | Brown, Campbell, Clark, Codington, Corson, Day and 15 more | 36 hr |
| Jan 22, 2:28 AM CST | Extreme Cold Warning | FSD | Beadle, Bon Homme, Brookings, Clay, Davison, Hanson and 12 more | 33 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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.