Severe drought conditions returned after a winter of below normal precipitation (largely 25-75 percent of normal).
Every event with a place to put it; 8 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.
Severe drought conditions returned after a winter of below normal precipitation (largely 25-75 percent of normal).
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 Mar 28, 9:29 PM CST, 2 hours 31 minutes earlier.
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</html>The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
8 drought. Local standard time, as filed.
Severe (D2) drought developed with precipitation only 25 to 50 percent of normal since December 1, 2021.
Severe (D2) drought developed with precipitation only 25 to 50 percent of normal since December 1, 2021.
Severe (D2) drought developed with precipitation only 25 to 50 percent of normal since December 1, 2021.
Severe (D2) drought developed with precipitation only around 50 percent of normal since December 1, 2021.
Severe (D2) drought developed with precipitation only 25 to 50 percent of normal since December 1, 2021.
Severe (D2) drought developed with precipitation only around 50 percent of normal since December 1, 2021.
Severe (D2) drought developed with precipitation only 25 to 50 percent of normal since December 1, 2021.
Severe (D2) drought developed with precipitation only around 50 percent of normal since December 1, 2021.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in South Dakota in 2022Every state in 2022This day in weather historyWarnings in South Dakota, March 2022
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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 1010614, 1010615, 1010616, 1010618, 1010620, 1010622, 1010623, 1010625.