Freeze Warnings in South Dakota
120 freeze 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 freeze warnings reaches back to 2005.
Freeze Warnings by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Freeze Warnings
- 120
- Busiest year
- 201410 freeze warnings
- Average year
- 6over 21 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.
- Moody County38
- Brookings County36
- Kingsbury County36
- Lake County36
- Beadle County35
- Sanborn County35
- Miner County34
- Edmunds County33
- McCook County33
- McPherson County33
- Minnehaha County33
- Jerauld County32
- Aurora County31
- Brown County31
- Brule County31
- Campbell County31
- Davison County31
- Hanson County31
- Spink County31
- Corson County30
- Faulk County30
- Lincoln County30
- Turner County30
- Clark County29
- Walworth County29
- Codington County28
- Day County28
- Hamlin County28
- Hutchinson County28
- Marshall County28
- Perkins County28
- Douglas County27
- Yankton County27
- Harding County27
- Clay County26
- Dewey County26
- Hand County26
- Hyde County26
- Potter County26
- Charles Mix County25
26 more counties
- Gregory County25
- Haakon County25
- Jackson County25
- Sully County25
- Union County25
- Bennett County24
- Deuel County24
- Hughes County24
- Roberts County24
- Meade County24
- Bon Homme County23
- Buffalo County23
- Grant County23
- Jones County23
- Stanley County23
- Butte County23
- Fall River County23
- Oglala Lakota County23
- Ziebach County23
- Lyman County22
- Custer County22
- Pennington County22
- Todd County21
- Mellette County19
- Tripp County19
- Lawrence County19
The latest freeze warnings
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 19, 2:43 AM CDT | Freeze Warning | FSD | Beadle, Brookings, Jerauld, Kingsbury, Sanborn | 29 hr |
| May 19, 12:50 AM CDT | Freeze Warning | ABR | Brown, Buffalo, Campbell, Clark, Codington, Day and 15 more | 31 hr |
| May 18, 12:40 PM CDT | Freeze Warning | UNR | Bennett, Butte, Custer, Fall River, Haakon, Harding and 7 more | 21 hr |
| May 5, 1:19 PM CDT | Freeze Warning | FSD | Aurora, Beadle, Brookings, Brule, Davison, Hanson and 8 more | 18 hr |
| May 1, 1:06 PM CDT | Freeze Warning | FSD | Aurora, Beadle, Bon Homme, Brookings, Brule, Charles Mix and 18 more | 19 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.