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Special Weather Statement issued Oct. 12, 2026 by NWS Rapid City SD
Special Weather Statement issued October 12 at 6:00AM MDT by NWS Rapid City SD. Areas named: Harding; Butte; Northern Meade Co Plains; Northern Foothills; Rapid City; Pennington Co Plains; Sturgis/Piedmont Foothills; Southern Meade Co Plains; Southern Perkins; Western Crook; Wyoming Black Hills; Northeastern Crook.
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NWS Rapid City SD issued a Special Weather Statement on Oct. 12, 2026, 6 a.m. MDT / 7 a.m. CDT, according to the National Weather Service's public alert record.
The alert states an effective time of Oct. 12, 2026, 6 a.m. MDT / 7 a.m. CDT, an onset of Oct. 12, 2026, 6 a.m. MDT / 7 a.m. CDT, and an expiry of Oct. 12, 2026, 8 a.m. MDT / 9 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.
Whether 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so 605Buzz computes it from the expiry above each time the page is loaded rather than storing an answer that would go out of date without anyone noticing.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.
The 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.
The recommended response type on the message is "Execute".
The alert names these areas: Harding; Butte; Northern Meade Co Plains; Northern Foothills; Rapid City; Pennington Co Plains; Sturgis/Piedmont Foothills; Southern Meade Co Plains; Southern Perkins; Western Crook; Wyoming Black Hills; Northeastern Crook. The National Weather Service zone codes are SDZ001, SDZ012, SDZ013, SDZ025, SDZ026, SDZ031, SDZ072, SDZ073, SDZ078, WYZ056, WYZ057 and WYZ060.
The issuing office's own summary line, as written on Oct. 12, 2026, 6 a.m. MDT / 7 a.m. CDT:
AREAS OF DENSE FOG THIS MORNING
The full text of the alert as issued on Oct. 12, 2026, 6 a.m. MDT / 7 a.m. CDT, reproduced without changes:
Areas of dense fog can be expected this morning. Motorists should expect rapidly changing visibility, down to near zero at times. Remember to use your low beam headlights in fog, slow down, and provide plenty of braking distance between yourself and any vehicles in front of you.
The message carries no separate protective-action text.
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