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  "url": "https://605buzz.com/articles/alert-d6b75e3218ef9caedc42a431d6d821800127bf43-001-1",
  "title": "Red Flag Warning issued Sept. 7, 2026 by NWS Rapid City SD",
  "dek": "Red Flag Warning issued September 7 at 6:55PM MDT until September 7 at 7:00PM MDT by NWS Rapid City SD. Areas named: Fall River County Area; Northern Campbell; Southern Campbell; Crook County Plains; Weston County Plains. Whether this alert is still in effect is shown on the page, computed from its stated expiry when you load it.",
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  "publishedAt": "2026-09-08T12:01:56.518Z",
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  "bodyMd": "**NWS Rapid City SD issued a Red Flag Warning** on Sept. 7, 2026, 6:55 p.m. MDT / 7:55 p.m. CDT, according to the National Weather Service's public alert record.\n\nThe alert states an effective time of Sept. 7, 2026, 6:55 p.m. MDT / 7:55 p.m. CDT, an onset of Sept. 7, 2026, 6:55 p.m. MDT / 7:55 p.m. CDT, and an expiry of Sept. 7, 2026, 8 p.m. MDT / 9 p.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 Sept. 7, 2026, 7 p.m. MDT / 8 p.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so 605Buzz computes it from the expiry above each time the page is loaded rather than storing an answer that would go out of date without anyone noticing.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 \"Prepare\".\n\nThe alert names these areas: Fall River County Area; Northern Campbell; Southern Campbell; Crook County Plains; Weston County Plains. The National Weather Service zone codes are SDZ322, WYZ314, WYZ315, WYZ316 and WYZ317.\n\nThe issuing office's own summary line, as written on Sept. 7, 2026, 6:55 p.m. MDT / 7:55 p.m. CDT:\n\n> RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 7 PM MDT THIS EVENING\n\nThe full text of the alert as issued on Sept. 7, 2026, 6:55 p.m. MDT / 7:55 p.m. CDT, reproduced without changes:\n\n> Winds are decreasing while relative humidity will continue to\n> increase above critical levels. Hence, the Red Flag Warning will be\n> allowed to expire. Overnight humidities will recover to 50 to 60\n> percent.\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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