August 31, 2026

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⚠️ Severe Thunderstorm Warning – Butte, SD; Harding, SD; Meade, SD; Perkins, SD; Ziebach, SD – Sunday, August 30, 2026

Event Severe Thunderstorm Warning
Severity Severe
Urgency Immediate
Certainty Observed
Area Butte, SD; Harding, SD; Meade, SD; Perkins, SD; Ziebach, SD
Effective 8/30/2026, 5:24:00 PM CDT
Expires 8/30/2026, 6:30:00 PM CDT

Severe Thunderstorm Warning issued August 30 at 4:24PM MDT until August 30 at 5:30PM MDT by NWS Rapid City SD

Details

SVRUNR

The National Weather Service in Rapid City has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for…
Eastern Butte County in northwestern South Dakota…
Southeastern Harding County in northwestern South Dakota…
Perkins County in northwestern South Dakota…
Northeastern Meade County in west central South Dakota…
Northwestern Ziebach County in west central South Dakota…

* Until 530 PM MDT.

* At 424 PM MDT, severe thunderstorms were located along a line from
over Prairie City to 11 miles east of Owl Butte, or along a line
from 37 miles east of Buffalo to 33 miles northeast of Sturgis,
moving east at 45 mph.

HAZARD…60 mph wind gusts and small hail.

SOURCE…Automated observations.

IMPACT…Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.

* Locations impacted include…
Newell, Bison, Reva, Meadow, Chance, Sorum, Maurine, Date, Zeona,
Mud Butte, Opal, Prairie City, Stoneville, Fairpoint, Red Owl,
Usta, Hoover, Marcus, Sheep Buttes and Owen Lake.

Instructions

Seek shelter inside a well-built structure and stay away from
windows. These storms have produced damaging winds.


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