Temperatures reaching double digits below zero and northwest winds of 10 to 15 mph combined to produce wind chill readings of 35 to 40 below zero in southwest Minnesota on the morning of January 23rd.
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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 FSD wrote it up.
Temperatures reaching double digits below zero and northwest winds of 10 to 15 mph combined to produce wind chill readings of 35 to 40 below zero in southwest Minnesota on the morning of January 23rd.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Sioux Falls, SD wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jan 23, 4:11 AM CST, 49 minutes earlier.
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</html>HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SIOUX FALLS SD 931 PM CST WED JAN 22 2014 SDZ038>040-050-052>071-MNZ071-072-080-081-089-090-097-098- IAZ001>003-012>014-020>022-031-032-NEZ013-014-231200- AURORA-BEADLE-BON HOMME-BROOKINGS-BRULE-BUENA VISTA IA- CHARLES MIX-CHEROKEE IA-CLAY-CLAY IA-COTTONWOOD MN-DAKOTA NE- DAVISON-DICKINSON IA-DIXON NE-DOUGLAS-GREGORY-HANSON-HUTCHINSON- IDA IA-JACKSON MN-JERAULD-KINGSBURY-LAKE-LINCOLN-LINCOLN MN- LYON IA-LYON MN-MCCOOK-MINER-MINNEHAHA-MOODY-MURRAY MN-NOBLES MN- OBRIEN IA-OSCEOLA IA-PIPESTONE MN-PLYMOUTH IA-ROCK MN-SANBORN- SIOUX IA-TURNER-UNION-WOODBURY IA-YANKTON- 931 PM CST WED JAN 22 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST SOUTH DAKOTA... SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA...NORTHWEST IOWA...AND NORTHEAST NEBRASKA. .DAY ONE...TONIGHT WINTER WEATHER... TEMPERATURES OF 10 BELOW TO 20 BELOW ZERO OVERNIGHT...COMBINED WITH MODERATE NORTHWESTERLY WINDS...WILL RESULT IN WIND CHILL READINGS OF 20 BELOW TO 40 BELOW ZERO ACROSS THE AREA. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY DANGEROUSLY COLD WIND CHILLS WILL CONTINUE INTO THURSDAY MORNING. THURSDAY NIGHT AFTER MIDNIGHT THROUGH EARLY MORNING ON FRIDAY...WEST AND SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL INCREASE TO 25 TO 40 MPH...WITH SOME GUSTS TO AROUND 50 MPH POSSIBLE ALONG AND DOWNSTREAM OF THE BUFFALO RIDGE IN EAST CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA AND SOUTHWEST MINNESOTA. THESE WINDS ARE LIKELY TO PRODUCE AREAS OF BLOWING SNOW...WITH SOME POTENTIAL FOR NEAR WHITEOUT CONDITIONS. BITTERLY COLD AIR WILL RETURN ON SUNDAY NIGHT AND MONDAY...WITH THE LIKELIHOOD OF WIND CHILLS FROM 20 BELOW TO 35 BELOW ZERO. WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR LIGHT SNOWFALL OF AN INCH OR TWO ON SATURDAY NIGHT... THERE COULD ALSO BE ANOTHER THREAT FOR BLOWING SNOW WHEN WINDS INCREASE ON SUNDAY INTO SUNDAY NIGHT. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED TODAY AND TONIGHT. && FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT WWW.WEATHER.GOV/SIOUXFALLS. THIS INCLUDES THE GRAPHICAL HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
8 extreme cold/wind chill. Local standard time, as filed.
Temperatures of 10 to 16 below zero and winds reaching 10 to 15 mph at times combined to produce wind chills of 35 to 40 below zero.
Temperatures of 10 to 16 below zero and winds reaching 10 to 15 mph at times combined to produce wind chills of 35 to 40 below zero.
Temperatures of 10 to 16 below zero and winds reaching 10 to 15 mph at times combined to produce wind chills of 35 to 40 below zero.
Temperatures of 10 to 16 below zero and winds reaching 10 to 15 mph at times combined to produce wind chills of 35 to 40 below zero.
Temperatures of 10 to 16 below zero and winds reaching 10 to 15 mph at times combined to produce wind chills of 35 to 40 below zero.
Temperatures of 10 to 16 below zero and winds reaching 10 to 15 mph at times combined to produce wind chills of 35 to 40 below zero.
Temperatures of 10 to 16 below zero and winds reaching 10 to 15 mph at times combined to produce wind chills of 35 to 40 below zero.
Temperatures of 10 to 16 below zero and winds reaching 10 to 15 mph at times combined to produce wind chills of 35 to 40 below zero.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Minnesota in 2014Every state in 2014This day in weather historyWarnings in Minnesota, January 2014
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 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 495200, 495201, 495202, 495203, 495204, 495205, 495206, 495207.