NWS Rapid City SDSV.W 0349August 30, 2026
Severe Thunderstorm Warning: Harding and Perkins, SD
The National Weather Service office in Rapid City issued a severe thunderstorm warning for Harding and Perkins in South Dakota, which was in force until 4:45 p.m. local time on August 30. It was the 349th severe thunderstorm warning the NWS office in Rapid City issued in 2026. South Dakota had 213 severe thunderstorm warnings in August 2026, against 127 in an average August of 2008-2025 (South Dakota's severe thunderstorm warnings by year).
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The notice
- Issued by
- National Weather Service, Rapid City SD
- Area
- Harding and Perkins
- State
- South Dakota
- Level
- Warning
- Issued
- 3:43 p.m. MDT, August 30, 2026
- Expires
- 4:45 p.m. MDT, August 30, 2026
- CAP severity, certainty, urgency
- Severe, Observed, Immediate
- VTEC event
- KUNR SV.W 0349
- Official source
- National Weather Service: the notice at its source
Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Dakota since 2008Every warning type in South Dakota
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The notice as issued
SVRUNR The National Weather Service in Rapid City has issued a * Severe Thunderstorm Warning for... Northeastern Harding County in northwestern South Dakota... Northwestern Perkins County in northwestern South Dakota... * Until 445 PM MDT. * At 343 PM MDT, a severe thunderstorm was located 6 miles southeast of South Cave Hills, or 10 miles northeast of Buffalo, moving northeast at 45 mph. HAZARD...70 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. SOURCE...Radar indicated. IMPACT...Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect considerable tree damage. Wind damage is also likely to mobile homes, roofs, and outbuildings. * Locations impacted include... Buffalo, Ludlow, Ralph, Lodgepole, Ladner, northwestern Slim Buttes, North Cave Hills, South Cave Hills, Lake Gardner and Table Mountain.
What the agency told people to do
Anyone outdoors should move to shelter inside a well-built structure and stay away from windows. This storm is capable of producing widespread damaging winds.
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The record around this notice
- Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in South Dakota since 2008629 a year
- Every warning type in South Dakota
- Severe Thunderstorm Warning: what it means, and the states that get the most20,005 a year
- NWS notices, August 20264,574 in the month
- The latest from the National Weather Service
- Warning, watch or advisory: the three NWS levels