2022 shows sharp increase in South Dakota weather warnings

Photo by: WDAY Radio Staff
Photo by: WDAY Radio Staff

(Pierre, SD) -- The National Weather Service is showing a sharp increase in South Dakota weather warnings in 2022.

South Dakota State University state climatologist Laura Edwards posted on Twitter Thursday that the National Weather Service has posted a record number of severe thunderstorm warnings this year. The previous record was set in 2007.

Only a third as many severe thunderstorm warnings were issued in all of last year compared to 2022.