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  "url": "https://605buzz.com/articles/alert-743143ef07854026ff04bc0aee99bd0ebf29d0d4-001-1",
  "title": "Special Weather Statement issued Aug. 27, 2026 by NWS Sioux Falls SD",
  "dek": "Special Weather Statement issued August 27 at 5:31AM CDT by NWS Sioux Falls SD. Areas named: Lyon; Sioux; O'Brien; Plymouth; Cherokee; Woodbury; Ida; Lincoln; Pipestone; Rock; Dixon; Dakota; Beadle; Kingsbury; Brookings; Sanborn; Miner; Lake; Moody; Davison; Hanson; McCook; Minnehaha; Hutchinson; Turner; Lincoln; Yankton; Clay; Union. Whether this alert is still in effect is shown on the page, computed from its stated expiry when you load it.",
  "vertical": "public-safety",
  "publishedAt": "2026-09-02T03:46:15.200Z",
  "updatedAt": "2026-09-07T23:36:26.031Z",
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  "bodyMd": "**NWS Sioux Falls SD issued a Special Weather Statement** on Aug. 27, 2026, 4:31 a.m. MDT / 5:31 a.m. CDT, according to the National Weather Service's public alert record.\n\nThe alert states an effective time of Aug. 27, 2026, 4:31 a.m. MDT / 5:31 a.m. CDT, an onset of Aug. 27, 2026, 4:31 a.m. MDT / 5:31 a.m. CDT, and an expiry of Aug. 27, 2026, 7:45 a.m. MDT / 8:45 a.m. CDT. South Dakota spans two time zones and this alert may reach both, so each instant is shown in Mountain and then Central time; the office's own published offset is preserved in the machine-readable record.\n\nWhether this alert is currently in effect is not stated in this text, deliberately: it depends on the time you are reading, so 605Buzz computes it from the expiry above each time the page is loaded rather than storing an answer that would go out of date without anyone noticing. The status shown at the top of this page is the computed one.\n\nThe issuing office classified this message as severity \"Moderate\", certainty \"Observed\" and urgency \"Expected\". Those are the National Weather Service's own categories, reproduced exactly; 605Buzz does not re-rank them or translate them into a scale of its own.\n\nThe recommended response type on the message is \"Execute\".\n\nThe alert names these areas: Lyon; Sioux; O'Brien; Plymouth; Cherokee; Woodbury; Ida; Lincoln; Pipestone; Rock; Dixon; Dakota; Beadle; Kingsbury; Brookings; Sanborn; Miner; Lake; Moody; Davison; Hanson; McCook; Minnehaha; Hutchinson; Turner; Lincoln; Yankton; Clay; Union. The National Weather Service zone codes are IAZ001, IAZ012, IAZ013, IAZ020, IAZ021, IAZ031, IAZ032, MNZ071, MNZ097, MNZ098, NEZ013, NEZ014, SDZ038, SDZ039, SDZ040, SDZ053, SDZ054, SDZ055, SDZ056, SDZ059, SDZ060, SDZ061, SDZ062, SDZ065, SDZ066, SDZ067, SDZ069, SDZ070 and SDZ071.\n\nThe issuing office's own summary line, as written on Aug. 27, 2026, 4:31 a.m. MDT / 5:31 a.m. CDT:\n\n> AREAS OF FOG ACROSS EARLY THIS MORNING\n\nThe full text of the alert as issued on Aug. 27, 2026, 4:31 a.m. MDT / 5:31 a.m. CDT, reproduced without changes:\n\n> Areas of fog, occasionally reducing visibility to less than a\n> half mile, have developed from the James River Valley, east into\n> portions of northwest Iowa and far southwest Minnesota early this\n> morning.\n>\n> Travelers should be prepared for rapidly deteriorating or\n> changing visibility, and use extra caution at intersections,\n> railroad crossings, and school bus stops. The fog is expected to\n> improve by 8 to 9 AM.\n\nThe message carries no separate protective-action text.\n\nThis alert is a work of the United States federal government — the National Weather Service, part of NOAA — and is in the **public domain**; no copyright is claimed on it and none is asserted here. 605Buzz reproduces the record and does not add meteorological judgement. For live conditions and alerts, go to the [National Weather Service](https://www.weather.gov/).\n\n605Buzz publishes alerts the National Weather Service gave a window of two hours or longer, and checks once a day. Short-notice warnings — including tornado and severe thunderstorm warnings, which the service typically issues for under an hour — are NOT carried here, so their absence from this site says nothing about whether one was issued. For those, and for live conditions, go to the [National Weather Service](https://www.weather.gov/).",
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