Winter Storm Warnings in South Dakota
388 winter storm 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 winter storm warnings reaches back to 2005.
Winter Storm Warnings by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Winter Storm Warnings
- 388
- Busiest year
- 201934 winter storm warnings
- Average year
- 18over 22 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.
- Pennington County148
- Meade County144
- Lawrence County137
- Custer County102
- Deuel County64
- Grant County64
- Roberts County63
- Marshall County61
- Hamlin County60
- Codington County59
- Clark County58
- Day County54
- Spink County54
- Brookings County53
- Brown County52
- Tripp County52
- Butte County51
- Fall River County51
- Bennett County50
- Harding County50
- Jackson County50
- Lyman County49
- Kingsbury County48
- Lake County48
- Todd County48
- Hand County48
- Charles Mix County47
- Edmunds County47
- Haakon County47
- Hutchinson County47
- Jones County47
- Buffalo County46
- Corson County46
- Gregory County46
- Ziebach County46
- Dewey County45
- Douglas County45
- Faulk County45
- Miner County45
- Moody County45
26 more counties
- Hyde County45
- Oglala Lakota County45
- Lincoln County44
- Mellette County44
- Perkins County44
- Bon Homme County43
- McPherson County43
- Potter County43
- Turner County43
- Walworth County43
- Brule County42
- Campbell County42
- Stanley County42
- Sully County42
- Aurora County41
- McCook County41
- Minnehaha County41
- Hughes County41
- Beadle County40
- Jerauld County40
- Yankton County40
- Sanborn County39
- Davison County37
- Hanson County36
- Union County36
- Clay County35
The latest winter storm warnings
The most recent on file, newest first.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 2, 12:42 PM CDT | Winter Storm Warning | ABR | Brown, Campbell, Corson, Day, Dewey, Edmunds and 12 more | 52 hr |
| Apr 2, 12:03 PM CDT | Winter Storm Warning | UNR | Butte, Haakon, Harding, Lawrence, Meade, Pennington and 2 more | 40 hr |
| Mar 13, 2:23 PM CDT | Winter Storm Warning | ABR | Brown, Campbell, Clark, Codington, Corson, Day and 15 more | 44 hr |
| Mar 13, 1:25 PM CDT | Winter Storm Warning | UNR | Butte, Haakon, Harding, Lawrence, Meade, Pennington and 2 more | 48 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.