July 3, 2026

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⚠️ Severe Thunderstorm Watch – Butte, SD; Haakon, SD; Harding, SD; Lawrence, SD; Meade, SD; Pennington, SD; Perkins, SD; Ziebach, SD; Crook, WY – Thursday, July 2, 2026

Event Severe Thunderstorm Watch
Severity Severe
Urgency Future
Certainty Possible
Area Butte, SD; Haakon, SD; Harding, SD; Lawrence, SD; Meade, SD; Pennington, SD; Perkins, SD; Ziebach, SD; Crook, WY
Effective 7/2/2026, 5:06:00 PM CDT
Expires 7/3/2026, 12:00:00 AM CDT

Severe Thunderstorm Watch issued July 2 at 4:06PM MDT until July 2 at 11:00PM MDT by NWS Rapid City SD

Details

THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE HAS ISSUED SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH
441 IN EFFECT UNTIL 11 PM MDT THIS EVENING FOR THE FOLLOWING
AREAS

IN SOUTH DAKOTA THIS WATCH INCLUDES 8 COUNTIES

IN NORTHWEST SOUTH DAKOTA

BUTTE HARDING PERKINS

IN WEST CENTRAL SOUTH DAKOTA

HAAKON LAWRENCE MEADE
PENNINGTON ZIEBACH

IN WYOMING THIS WATCH INCLUDES 1 COUNTY

IN NORTHEAST WYOMING

CROOK

THIS INCLUDES THE CITIES OF BILLSBURG, BISON, BUFFALO, DEADWOOD,
DOWNTOWN BELLE FOURCHE, DUPREE, FAITH, HILL CITY, KIRLEY, LEAD,
LEMMON, MILESVILLE, MOORCROFT, PHILIP, RAPID CITY, SPEARFISH,
STURGIS, SUNDANCE, UNION CENTER, AND WALL.

THIS INCLUDES THE TRIBAL LANDS OF THE CHEYENNE RIVER RESERVATION.


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