| Event | Freeze Warning |
| Severity | Severe |
| Urgency | Expected |
| Certainty | Likely |
| Area | Harding; Northern Perkins; Butte; Northern Meade Co Plains; Ziebach; Northern Foothills; Rapid City; Southern Foothills; Custer Co Plains; Pennington Co Plains; Haakon; Western Fall River; Northern Oglala Lakota; Northern Jackson; Bennett; Sturgis/Piedmont Foothills; Southern Meade Co Plains; Hermosa Foothills; Eastern Fall River; Southern Oglala Lakota; Southern Jackson; Southern Perkins; Northern Campbell; Southern Campbell; Western Crook; Weston County Plains; Newcastle; Northeastern Crook |
| Effective | 10/16/2026, 4:06:00 AM CDT |
| Expires | 10/16/2026, 10:00:00 AM CDT |
Freeze Warning issued October 16 at 4:06AM CDT until October 16 at 10:00AM CDT by NWS Rapid City SD
Details
* WHAT…Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 26.
* WHERE…Portions of northwestern and southwestern South Dakota and
northeast Wyoming.
* WHEN…Until 9 AM MDT this morning.
* IMPACTS…Frost and freeze conditions could kill crops, other
sensitive vegetation and possibly damage unprotected outdoor
plumbing.
Instructions
Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold.
This alert was automatically posted by SkyGuard, MWSC’s severe weather alerting system. Source: National Weather Service.
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