⚠️ Special Weather Statement – Butte; Northern Black Hills; Northern Foothills; Sturgis/Piedmont Foothills; Southern Meade Co Plains – Tuesday, August 11, 2026

Special Weather Statement issued August 11 at 7:00PM MDT by NWS Rapid City SD

Details

At 700 PM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking a line of strong outflow
winds extending from 6 miles southeast of Vale to near Beulah, or
extending from 14 miles northeast of Sturgis to 10 miles southwest of
Belle Fourche, moving south at 35 mph.

HAZARD…Wind gusts of 50 to 55 mph.

SOURCE…Radar indicated.

IMPACT…Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects.

Locations impacted include…
Spearfish, Sturgis, southern Belle Fourche, Lead, northern
Ellsworth Air Force Base, Summerset, Black Hawk, Deadwood,
Whitewood, Nemo, Piedmont, Saint Onge, Vale, Central City, Galena,
Brownsville, Tilford, Cheyenne Crossing and Apple Springs.

This includes Interstate 90 in South Dakota between Mile Markers 1
and 52.

Instructions

Monitor the weather situation closely and be alert for threatening
weather conditions.

This alert was automatically posted by SkyGuard, MWSC’s severe weather alerting system. Source: National Weather Service.