A powerful winter storm which began February 24th brought blizzard conditions to the northern Black Hills for five days. Blowing and drifting snow halted traffic through out the northern Black Hills with some snow drifts as high as seven feet deep.
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Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The episode as NWS UNR wrote it up.
A powerful winter storm which began February 24th brought blizzard conditions to the northern Black Hills for five days. Blowing and drifting snow halted traffic through out the northern Black Hills with some snow drifts as high as seven feet deep.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 blizzard. Local standard time, as filed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in South Dakota in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyWarnings in South Dakota, March 1998
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5639330.