Severe Weather Awareness Week Ends With Focus On Dangerous Summer Heat

Severe Weather Awareness Week Ends With Focus On Dangerous Summer Heat

PIERRE — The National Weather Service is closing South Dakota’s severe weather awareness with a focus today on extreme summertime heat. Kelly Serr at the National Weather Service office in Aberdeen says dangerous heat conditions are alerted similar to dangerous thunderstorms…

Severe weather awareness week featured five days focusing on various issues with severe weather including flooding, tornadoes, hail, damaging wind and lightning.  South Dakota’s severe weather season begins in late April and ends in late August.  South Dakota averages 36 tornadoes a year.  More information on severe weather safety can be found on the National Weather Service website.