⚠️ Special Weather Statement – Southern Foothills; Southern Black Hills; Custer Co Plains; Pennington Co Plains; Northern Oglala Lakota; Hermosa Foothills; Eastern Fall River – Sunday, August 23, 2026

Special Weather Statement issued August 23 at 3:57PM MDT by NWS Rapid City SD

Details

At 357 PM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking an area of strong
thunderstorms and wind gusts ahead of the storms extending from near
Folsom to over Wind Cave National Park, or extending from 28 miles
southeast of Rapid City to 9 miles north of Hot Springs, moving
southeast at 25 mph.

HAZARD…Wind gusts up to 50 mph and penny 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…
Hot Springs, Oral, Buffalo Gap, Fairburn, Smithwick, Red Shirt,
Folsom, Red Shirt Table Overlook, Intersection of Red Shirt and
Cuny Table Roads, Buffalo Corrals, Wind Cave National Park,
Maverick Junction, Railroad Buttes, southeastern Custer State Park,
northern Angostura Reservoir and southwestern Badlands National
Park.

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.