⚠️ Special Weather Statement – Southern Foothills; Southern Black Hills; Custer Co Plains; Pennington Co Plains; Western Fall River; Northern Oglala Lakota; Hermosa Foothills; Eastern Fall River; Southern Oglala Lakota – Monday, July 20, 2026

Special Weather Statement issued July 19 at 11:38PM MDT by NWS Rapid City SD

Details

At 1138 PM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking a line of showers with a
few lightning strikes extending from over Railroad Buttes to 8 miles
north of Rumford, or extending from 22 miles southeast of Rapid City
to 7 miles southeast of Edgemont, moving southeast at 30 mph.

HAZARD…Wind gusts up to 40 mph.

SOURCE…Radar indicated.

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

Locations impacted include…
Hot Springs, Oral, Buffalo Gap, Oelrichs, Fairburn, Scenic,
Smithwick, Provo, Red Shirt, Prairie Winds Casino, Dry Wood
Housing, Folsom, Farmingdale, Rumford, Intersection of Red Shirt
and Cuny Table Roads, Red Shirt Table Overlook, Hay Canyon Butte,
Maverick Junction, Buffalo Corrals and Wind Cave National Park.

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.