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

Special Weather Statement issued August 30 at 3:54PM MDT by NWS Rapid City SD

Details

At 354 PM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking thunderstorm outflow winds
extending from 6 miles west of Newell Lake to near Spearfish, or
extending from 20 miles northeast of Belle Fourche to near Spearfish,
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…
Spearfish, Sturgis, southeastern Belle Fourche, Deadwood,
Whitewood, Newell, Nisland, Saint Onge, Vale, Fruitdale, Galena,
Bear Butte State Park, Arpan, Fort Meade, Belle Fourche Reservoir,
Newell Lake, Owl Butte, Apple Springs, northern Spearfish Canyon
and Crow Peak.

This includes Interstate 90 in South Dakota between Mile Markers 6
and 38.

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.