South Dakota Moderate Special Weather Statement | Effective 08/23/2026 14:57

Headline: 
Special Weather Statement issued August 23 at 3:57PM MDT by NWS Rapid City SD
Event: 
Special Weather Statement
Urgency: 
Expected
Effective: 
August 23, 2026 - 2:57pm
Expires: 
August 23, 2026 - 3:30pm
Description: 
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.
Instruction: 
Monitor the weather situation closely and be alert for threatening weather conditions.
Area Description: 
Southern Foothills; Southern Black Hills; Custer Co Plains; Pennington Co Plains; Northern Oglala Lakota; Hermosa Foothills; Eastern Fall River
Forcast Office: 
NWS Rapid City SD
Sender: 
w-nws.webmaster@noaa.gov