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Overview

A winter storm brought widespread snow across the region from Friday morning November 28th to late Saturday night November 29th, 2025. Light snow spread in through the day Friday from the west. A lull in snow overnight brought a light coating of freezing drizzle, and snow reinvigorated Saturday and Saturday night with flurries continuing into Sunday. Post-Thanksgiving travel was impacted greatest on Saturday with the poorest conditions developing with patchy blowing and drifting snow Saturday night as winds gusted in the 20s and 30s.

This storm brought the heaviest snow totals to northwest Iowa, peaking at 9+ inches. Further west in central South Dakota, snowfall totals were only a few inches.

Map of snowfall reports from November 28-30, 2025. A broad 3-7 inches occurred across most of southeast South Dakota, northeast Nebraska and southwest Minnesota. Higher totals from 7 to 11 inches were reported across northwest Iowa, and along/east of Highway 60 in southern Minnesota.
Map of snowfall reports from November 28-30, 2025. 

Snow/Ice

Map of snowfall reports from November 28-30, 2025. A broad 3-7 inches occurred across most of southeast South Dakota, northeast Nebraska and southwest Minnesota. Higher totals from 7 to 11 inches were reported across northwest Iowa, and along/east of Highway 60 in southern Minnesota.


Public Information Statement
National Weather Service Sioux Falls SD
238 PM CST Sun Nov 30 2025

...STORM TOTAL SNOWFALL REPORTS, ENDING SUNDAY NOVEMBER 30TH, 2025...

Location                     Amount    Time/Date       Provider             

...Iowa...            

...Clay County...
2 SE Spencer                 9.0 in    0220 PM 11/29   Public               

...Dickinson County...           
3 SSE Lake Park              8.2 in    0700 AM 11/30   CO-OP Observer       

...Ida County...
Battle Creek                 9.0 in    0830 AM 11/30   Public               
1 WSW Ida Grove              9.0 in    0845 AM 11/30   Trained Spotter      

...OBrien County...
Sheldon                      8.5 in    0550 PM 11/29   Public               

...Plymouth County...
Le Mars                      6.3 in    1100 AM 11/30   Public               
Remsen                       5.8 in    1115 AM 11/30   COOP                

...Sioux County...
Orange City                  6.7 in    0700 AM 11/30   CO-OP Observer       
Hawarden                     5.5 in    1200 PM 11/30   Public               

...Woodbury County...
Sergeant Bluff               7.0 in    0600 AM 11/30   Official NWS Obs     
3.4 N Hornick                7.0 in    0700 AM 11/30   COOP                 

...Minnesota...

...Cottonwood County...
2.6 NW Windom                9.0 in    0800 AM 11/30   COOP                      

...Lincoln County...
Hendricks 8.0 SE             3.6 in    0700 AM 11/30   COCORAHS             

...Lyon County...
Marshall                     5.0 in    0800 AM 11/30   COOP                 
5 S Cottonwood               4.7 in    0821 AM 11/30   COCORAHS             
Milroy 4.1 SSW               4.0 in    0700 AM 11/30   COCORAHS             

...Murray County...
Slayton 0.8 SSW              6.2 in    0700 AM 11/30   COCORAHS             

...Nobles County...
Worthington 2 NNE            6.0 in    0700 AM 11/30   COOP                 

...Pipestone County...
Edgerton 0.2 WSW             4.0 in    0700 AM 11/30   COCORAHS             

...Rock County...
Hills 0.2 NW                 6.5 in    0700 AM 11/30   COCORAHS             

...South Dakota...

...Aurora County...
Stickney 3.8 SW              5.0 in    0700 AM 11/30   COCORAHS             

...Beadle County...
2 S Huron                    5.2 in    0600 AM 11/30   Official NWS Obs     

...Bon Homme County...
Tyndall                      4.6 in    0700 AM 11/30   COOP                 

...Brookings County...
Volga                        5.0 in    0651 AM 11/30   Trained Spotter       
2 NE Brookings               3.4 in    0800 AM 11/30   CO-OP Observer       
Astoria 2.2 SSE              3.0 in    0700 AM 11/30   COCORAHS             

...Brule County...
Pukwana 1.9 S                6.3 in    0700 AM 11/30   COCORAHS             
Chamberlain 7.5 SSW          5.0 in    0700 AM 11/30   COCORAHS             

...Charles Mix County...
Academy 2 NE                 4.9 in    0900 AM 11/30   CO-OP Observer                 

...Clay County...
Vermillion 1 SSE             6.7 in    1245 PM 11/30   CO-OP Observer

...Davison County...
1 SE Mitchell                3.6 in    1054 PM 11/29   CO-OP Observer       

...Douglas County...
Dimock 10.2 W                3.1 in    0700 AM 11/30   COCORAHS             

...Gregory County...
5 SSW Herrick                4.0 in    0700 AM 11/30   Cocorahs             
Dallas 8.8 S                 4.0 in    0700 AM 11/30   COCORAHS             

...Hutchinson County...
Emery 10.8 S                 3.3 in    0600 AM 11/30   COCORAHS             

...Jerauld County...
Wessington Springs           5.8 in    1113 PM 11/29   Emergency Mngr       

...Kingsbury County...
De Smet 0.2 SSE              4.0 in    0700 AM 11/30   COCORAHS             

...Lincoln County...
Canton                       9.5 in    0700 AM 11/30   COOP                 
Harrisburg 0.8 NNE           5.4 in    0700 AM 11/30   COCORAHS             

...McCook County...
Parker 7.2 N                 6.0 in    0700 AM 11/30   COCORAHS             
Montrose 5.8 NW              4.5 in    0700 AM 11/30   COCORAHS             

...Miner County...
Howard                       6.1 in    0903 AM 11/30   COOP                 

...Minnehaha County...
4 WNW Rowena                 5.8 in    0634 PM 11/29   NWS Employee         
Renner 4.1 NW                5.0 in    0700 AM 11/30   COCORAHS             
3 N Sioux Falls              4.8 in    0600 AM 11/30   Official NWS Obs     

...Moody County...
Colman 10.6 N                3.5 in    0700 AM 11/30   COCORAHS             

...Sanborn County...
Letcher 0.5 E                7.0 in    0700 AM 11/30   COCORAHS             

...Union County...               
Jefferson 2.1 WNW            5.2 in    0700 AM 11/30   COCORAHS             

...Yankton County...
Yankton 1.0 ESE              7.0 in    0800 AM 11/30   COCORAHS             

Observations are collected from a variety of sources with varying
equipment and exposures. We thank all volunteer weather observers 
for their dedication. Not all data listed are considered official.

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Radar

 

Video of base radar reflectivity for entire snow storm from November 28 to 29, 2025
Base radar reflectivity loop from 2:00 AM Friday November 28th to 10:30 PM Saturday November 29th, 2025

Additional Information

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