Top 10: The Biggest 1-Day Snow Totals in South Dakota

Some winters we hardly get any snow, other years we could absolutely get dumped on.

Sure, we've had some impressive storms already this year, but let's look back at the top 10 one-day totals in South Dakota as compiled by NOAA's National Centers for Environmental Information.

#10. Mar 4, 1985
- Grant County: 27 inches
#9. Apr 12, 1991 (tie)
- Ziebach County: 28 inches
#9. Apr 18, 1995 (tie)
- Tripp County: 28 inches
#9. Mar 14, 1973 (tie)
- Meade County: 28 inches
#9. Oct 5, 2013 (tie)
- Fall River County: 28 inches
#5. Mar 4, 1966
- Edmunds County: 29 inches
#4. May 2, 2008
- Butte County: 30 inches
#3. Oct 5, 2013
- Pennington County: 35 inches
#2. Jan 5, 1949
- Jackson County: 48 inches
#1. Mar 14, 1973
- Lawrence County: 52 inches

Just for fun, the largest 3-day total in South Dakota was again set in Lawrence County (Lead, SD) in February of 1998 where a whopping 74.1" of snow fell in just 72 hours!