S. early on Friday, November 29 and pushed a shield of light mixed precipitation northeastward across the region with a light accumulation of ice.
Every event with a place to put it; 11 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
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.
Close on the heels of the last winter storm, an amplified upper-air pattern brought another impulse out of the southwestern U.S. early on Friday, November 29 and pushed a shield of light mixed precipitation northeastward across the region with a light accumulation of ice. As the main trough and area of low pressure organized on Saturday, November 30 across Nebraska and deepened as it moved into southern Wisconsin by the morning of Sunday, December 1, additional snowfall developed and was accompanied by strong and gusty northwest winds of 30 to 50 mph by later Saturday night into Sunday morning.
Snowfall totals over the period generally ranged from 6 to 16 inches west of the James River, to less than one inch from northeast Nebraska and far southeast South Dakota toward southern portions of northwest Iowa. Another mesoscale band of heavy snowfall occurred on Saturday, November 30 near the Minnesota-Iowa border with between 6 and 9 inches accumulation.
This storm continued into December 1, although a majority of accumulating snowfall ended between 0000 and 0900CST.
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 Nov 28, 5:38 PM CST, 22 minutes earlier.
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A mix of occasional light snowfall and freezing drizzle began during the evening of Thursday, November 28, and resulted in a few hundredths of an inch ice accumulation through the early morning of November 29. Snowfall totals were minimal, only 0.1 inches in Sioux City.
A mix of occasional light snowfall and freezing drizzle began during the evening of Thursday, November 28, and resulted in up to a tenth of an inch ice accumulation through the early morning of November 29. Snowfall totals were minimal, only 0.5 inches in Remsen and 0.2 inches in Le Mars.
A mix of occasional light snowfall and freezing drizzle began during the evening of Thursday, November 28, and resulted in up to a tenth of an inch ice accumulation through the early morning of November 29. Snowfall totals reached 2.0 inches in Sioux Center and 1.9 inches in Orange City.
A mix of occasional light snowfall and freezing drizzle began during the evening of Thursday, November 28, and resulted in up to a tenth of an inch ice accumulation through the early morning of November 29. Snowfall totals reached 1.0 inches in Rock Rapids.
A mix of occasional light snowfall and freezing drizzle began during the evening of Thursday, November 28, and resulted in a few hundredths of an inch ice accumulation through the early morning of November 29. Snowfall totals reached 3.1 inches in Primghar and 1.7 inches in Sheldon.
A mix of occasional light snowfall and freezing drizzle began during the evening of Thursday, November 28, and resulted in up to a tenth of an inch ice accumulation through the midday hours of November 29. Snowfall totals reached 1.9 inches in Spencer and 1.7 inches 3 miles west northwest of Everly.
Winter weather commenced late evening on Thursday, November 28 with a mix of light snow and freezing rain, which produced up to a tenth of an inch ice accumulation before surface temperatures warmed above freezing on the morning of November 30. A narrow band of moderate to heavy snowfall enhanced over the area during the afternoon and evening of November 30, producing 4.5 inches of snowfall at Sibley and 7.5 inches near Round Lake.
Winter weather commenced late evening on Thursday, November 28 with a mix of light snow and freezing rain, which produced up to a tenth of an inch ice accumulation before surface temperatures warmed above freezing on the morning of November 30. A narrow band of moderate to heavy snowfall enhanced over the area during the afternoon and evening of November 30, producing 6.9 inches of snowfall at Lake Park and 3.4 inches at Spirit Lake.
Occasional light freezing drizzle began during the evening of Thursday, November 28, and resulted in a few hundredths of an inch ice accumulation through the early morning of November 29.
Occasional light freezing drizzle began during the evening of Thursday, November 28, and resulted in a few hundredths of an inch ice accumulation through the early morning of November 29.
Occasional light freezing drizzle began during the evening of Thursday, November 28, and resulted in a few hundredths of an inch ice accumulation through the early morning of November 29.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Iowa in 2019Every state in 2019This day in weather historyWarnings in Iowa, November 2019
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: 869210, 869211, 869212, 869213, 869219, 869220, 869214, 869215, 869216, 869217, 869218.