⚠️ Special Weather Statement – Butte; Northern Meade Co Plains; Northern Black Hills; Rapid City; Central Black Hills; Pennington Co Plains; Haakon; Sturgis/Piedmont Foothills; Southern Meade Co Plains – Monday, July 20, 2026

Special Weather Statement issued July 19 at 11:13PM MDT by NWS Rapid City SD

Details

At 1113 PM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking a line of showers with a
few lightning strikes extending from 11 miles east of Owl Butte to
over Box Elder, or extending from 34 miles northeast of Sturgis to 8
miles east of Rapid City, moving east at 35 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…
Rapid City, Sturgis, Rapid Valley, Ellsworth Air Force Base, Box
Elder, Black Hawk, Summerset, New Underwood, Newell, Union Center,
Piedmont, Vale, Wasta, Plainview, Enning, Owanka, Elm Springs,
Hereford, Wicksville and Fairpoint.

This includes Interstate 90 in South Dakota between Mile Markers 30
and 110.

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.