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⚠️ Severe Thunderstorm Warning – Oglala Lakota, SD – Tuesday, August 11, 2026

Event Severe Thunderstorm Warning
Severity Severe
Urgency Immediate
Certainty Observed
Area Oglala Lakota, SD
Effective 8/11/2026, 6:29:00 PM CDT
Expires 8/11/2026, 7:30:00 PM CDT

Severe Thunderstorm Warning issued August 11 at 5:29PM MDT until August 11 at 6:30PM MDT by NWS Rapid City SD

Details

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The National Weather Service in Rapid City has issued a

* Severe Thunderstorm Warning for…
Southwestern Oglala Lakota County in southwestern South Dakota…

* Until 630 PM MDT.

* At 529 PM MDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 5 miles west of
Dry Wood Housing, or 26 miles northwest of Pine Ridge, moving
southeast at 40 mph.

THIS IS A DESTRUCTIVE STORM FOR OGLALA, PINE RIDGE.

HAZARD…Baseball size hail and 60 mph wind gusts.

SOURCE…Radar indicated.

IMPACT…People and animals outdoors will be severely injured.
Expect shattered windows, extensive damage to roofs,
siding, and vehicles.

* Locations impacted include…
Pine Ridge, Oglala, Number 4, South Lakeside, Loneman, Calico, Dry
Wood Housing, Wolf Creek Housing, Slim Buttes Housing and
southwestern Pine Ridge Reservation.

Instructions

Seek shelter now inside an interior room on the lowest floor of a
well-built structure. This storm is capable of producing destructive
hail and damaging winds.

This storm has a history or producing large damaging hail.


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