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  "title": "Freeze Warning issued Oct. 16, 2026 by NWS Rapid City SD",
  "dek": "Freeze Warning issued October 16 at 4:06AM CDT until October 16 at 10:00AM CDT by NWS Rapid City SD. Areas named: Harding; Northern Perkins; Butte; Northern Meade Co Plains; Ziebach; Northern Foothills; Rapid City; Southern Foothills; Custer Co Plains; Pennington Co Plains; Haakon; Western Fall River; Northern Oglala Lakota; Northern Jackson; Bennett; Sturgis/Piedmont Foothills; Southern Meade Co Plains; Hermosa Foothills; Eastern Fall River; Southern Oglala Lakota; Southern Jackson; Southern Perkins; Northern Campbell; Southern Campbell; Western Crook; Weston County Plains; Newcastle; Northeastern Crook.",
  "vertical": "public-safety",
  "publishedAt": "2026-10-16T12:01:55.523Z",
  "updatedAt": "2026-10-17T12:01:05.605Z",
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  "bodyMd": "**NWS Rapid City SD issued a Freeze Warning** on Oct. 16, 2026, 3:06 a.m. MDT / 4:06 a.m. CDT, according to the National Weather Service's public alert record.\n\nThe alert states an effective time of Oct. 16, 2026, 3:06 a.m. MDT / 4:06 a.m. CDT, an onset of Oct. 16, 2026, 3:06 a.m. MDT / 4:06 a.m. CDT, and an expiry of Oct. 16, 2026, 9 a.m. MDT / 10 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\nThe alert separately states that the hazard itself ends at Oct. 16, 2026, 9 a.m. MDT / 10 a.m. CDT. That is a different field from the message's expiry above and the two can differ.\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so 605Buzz computes it from the expiry above each time the page is loaded rather than storing an answer that would go out of date without anyone noticing.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 \"Severe\", certainty \"Likely\" 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: Harding; Northern Perkins; Butte; Northern Meade Co Plains; Ziebach; Northern Foothills; Rapid City; Southern Foothills; Custer Co Plains; Pennington Co Plains; Haakon; Western Fall River; Northern Oglala Lakota; Northern Jackson; Bennett; Sturgis/Piedmont Foothills; Southern Meade Co Plains; Hermosa Foothills; Eastern Fall River; Southern Oglala Lakota; Southern Jackson; Southern Perkins; Northern Campbell; Southern Campbell; Western Crook; Weston County Plains; Newcastle; Northeastern Crook. The National Weather Service zone codes are SDZ001, SDZ002, SDZ012, SDZ013, SDZ014, SDZ025, SDZ026, SDZ027, SDZ030, SDZ031, SDZ032, SDZ041, SDZ042, SDZ043, SDZ044, SDZ072, SDZ073, SDZ074, SDZ075, SDZ076, SDZ077, SDZ078, WYZ054, WYZ055, WYZ056, WYZ058, WYZ059 and WYZ060.\n\nThe issuing office's own summary line, as written on Oct. 16, 2026, 3:06 a.m. MDT / 4:06 a.m. CDT:\n\n> FREEZE WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 9 AM MDT THIS MORNING\n\nThe full text of the alert as issued on Oct. 16, 2026, 3:06 a.m. MDT / 4:06 a.m. CDT, reproduced without changes:\n\n> \\* WHAT...Sub-freezing temperatures as low as 26.\n>\n> \\* WHERE...Portions of northwestern and southwestern South Dakota and\n> northeast Wyoming.\n>\n> \\* WHEN...Until 9 AM MDT this morning.\n>\n> \\* IMPACTS...Frost and freeze conditions could kill crops, other\n> sensitive vegetation and possibly damage unprotected outdoor\n> plumbing.\n\nThe protective-action text the issuing office attached, reproduced without changes:\n\n> Take steps now to protect tender plants from the cold.\n\nThe National Weather Service superseded this message at Oct. 16, 2026, 9:07 a.m. MDT / 10:07 a.m. CDT with a later one. This article records the message as issued.\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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