⚠️ Special Weather Statement – Rapid City; Southern Foothills; Central Black Hills; Southern Black Hills; Custer Co Plains; Northern Oglala Lakota; Hermosa Foothills; Eastern Fall River; Southern Oglala Lakota – Monday, September 7, 2026

Special Weather Statement issued September 7 at 12:28AM MDT by NWS Rapid City SD

Details

At 1228 AM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking a line of strong
thunderstorms extending from near northern Wind Cave National Park to
5 miles south of Prairie Winds Casino, or extending from 11 miles
southeast of Custer to 25 miles west of Pine Ridge, moving northeast
at 35 mph.

HAZARD…Wind gusts of 50 to 55 mph and half inch size hail.

SOURCE…Radar indicated.

IMPACT…Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.

Locations impacted include…
Hermosa, Oral, Buffalo Gap, Pringle, Fairburn, Smithwick, Red
Shirt, Prairie Winds Casino, Dry Wood Housing, Hayward, Red Shirt
Table Overlook, Intersection of Red Shirt and Cuny Table Roads, Hay
Canyon Butte, Buffalo Corrals, Wind Cave National Park, State Game
Lodge, Custer State Park, Blue Bell, Black Hills Playhouse and
Legion Lake.

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.