⚠️ Special Weather Statement – Butte; Northern Meade Co Plains; Northern Black Hills; Rapid City; Central Black Hills; Pennington Co Plains; Sturgis/Piedmont Foothills; Southern Meade Co Plains; Hermosa Foothills – Sunday, August 30, 2026

Special Weather Statement issued August 30 at 4:31PM MDT by NWS Rapid City SD

Details

At 431 PM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking strong outflow winds
extending from 12 miles southeast of Owl Butte to near Nemo, or
extending from 28 miles northeast of Sturgis to 14 miles south of
Sturgis, moving southeast at 45 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…
Rapid City, Sturgis, Rapid Valley, Ellsworth Air Force Base, Box
Elder, Black Hawk, Summerset, New Underwood, Johnson Siding, Nemo,
Hermosa, Union Center, Piedmont, Vale, Hisega, Silver City, Enning,
Elm Springs, Hereford and Caputa.

This includes Interstate 90 in South Dakota between Mile Markers 30
and 90.

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.