Heavy Snow Warnings in South Dakota
12 heavy snow 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 heavy snow warnings reaches back to 2005.
Heavy Snow Warnings by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Heavy Snow Warnings
- 12
- Busiest year
- 20085 heavy snow warnings
- Average year
- 4over 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.
- Lawrence County3
- Meade County3
- Pennington County3
- Spink County3
- Brookings County3
- Hamlin County3
- Lake County3
- Moody County3
- Custer County2
- Day County2
- Fall River County2
- Faulk County2
- Hand County2
- Hyde County2
- Oglala Lakota County2
- Codington County2
- Deuel County2
- Grant County2
- Lincoln County2
- Minnehaha County2
- Yankton County2
- Beadle County2
- Clark County2
- Jerauld County2
- Kingsbury County2
- Miner County2
- Sanborn County2
- Stanley County2
- Bennett County1
- Brown County1
- Edmunds County1
- Haakon County1
- Jackson County1
- McPherson County1
- Marshall County1
- Clay County1
- Union County1
- Aurora County1
- Bon Homme County1
- Brule County1
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.