• 1993: Snow fell across all of South Dakota from the 10th to the 12th with over 8 inches occurring in south-central, west-central, and the southwest. Some reports included, 13 inches at Harrington, 12 inches at Midland, 10.5 inches at Winner, 10 inches near Stephan, Ardmore, and Wagner, 8.5 inches near Lead and Milesville, and 8 inches at Mitchell and Usta.
• 1996: Across central and northeast South Dakota as well as west central Minnesota, an intense area of low pressure and an Arctic high pressure area created high winds from 35 to 50 mph with gusts to around 65 mph through the afternoon and into the late evening. These high winds combined with the falling snow and the snow already on the ground to create blizzard conditions and slick roads across northeast South Dakota and west central Minnesota. Highway 12 from Webster to Summit was closed the evening of the 10th along with Interstate-29 from Summit to Sisseton. Hundreds of travelers were stranded at Summit for several hours until conditions improved. Some wind gusts included, 61 mph at Mobridge, and 66 mph at Pierre and Aberdeen.
• 2008: Arctic air combined with blustery northwest winds of 15 to 30 mph brought extreme wind chills of 35 to 45 degrees below zero to northeast South Dakota and west central Minnesota through the morning hours.
• 1959: An F4 tornado tore directly through St. Louis at 1:40 in the morning, killing 21 people and damaging 2000 buildings.
• 1969: Fifteen inches of snow buried New York City, causing 14 fatalities. Embattled Mayor John Lindsay was accused of giving favored snow removal treatment to Manhattan at the expense of the other boroughs. On a trip to Queens to appease residents, his car got stuck in the snow and he was verbally abused by the locals. The disaster became known as the Lindsay Snowstorm.
• 1973: A major snowstorm struck the southeastern United States, producing as much as 18 inches in Georgia, and nearly two feet of snow in South Carolina.
• 1990: Severe thunderstorms produced 29 tornadoes in 29 hours across Alabama and Georgia and 245 reports of large hail or damaging winds. High winds associated with early-morning thunderstorms injured 70 people and caused more than $12 million in damage across the two states.
• 2010: A second major blizzard in less than a week struck the East Coast and Appalachians. Up to 2 feet of snow fell in Maryland, including nearly a foot in Washington, DC. Washington and Baltimore broke their records for their snowiest winter on record with the storm.
• 2011: High pressure over a deep snowpack caused a new state record low temperature to be set in Oklahoma when Nowata reported -31 degrees. Sub-zero readings extended all the way south to the Texas border.