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Hazardous Weather Outlook
National Weather Service Rapid City SD
1123 AM MST Fri Jan 16 2026

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Harding-Northern Perkins-Butte-Northern Meade Co Plains-Ziebach-
Northern Black Hills-Northern Foothills-Rapid City-
Southern Foothills-Central Black Hills-Southern Black Hills-
Custer Co Plains-Pennington Co Plains-Haakon-Western Fall River-
Northern Oglala Lakota-Northern Jackson-Bennett-Mellette-Todd-
Tripp-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-Wyoming Black Hills-
Weston County Plains-Newcastle-Northeastern Crook-
1123 AM MST Fri Jan 16 2026 /1223 PM CST Fri Jan 16 2026/

This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for portions of western South
Dakota and northeastern Wyoming.

.DAY ONE...This Afternoon and Tonight

Strong, damaging winds are expected today. See NPWUNR for
details. Where snow falls or is on the ground, expect blowing snow
with visibilities less than one mile at times.

The Grassland Fire Danger will be in the very high to extreme
category on the western South Dakota plains this afternoon.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Saturday through Thursday

Elevated to near-critical fire weather conditions are expected
Saturday and Sunday. Saturday will be due to breezy winds and
minimum relative humidities falling to 10 to 30 percent. Sunday,
a strong cold front will bring the possibility of wind gusts in
excess of 50 MPH.

.SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...

Spotter activation will not be needed today.

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Stay tuned to NOAA weather radio for further updates...or check
our web site at weather.gov/rapidcity

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