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High Wind Warning 4, NWS Rapid City, SD

February 16, 20266 counties in South Dakota; Campbell County, Weston County, Wyoming

NWS Rapid City, SD issued this high wind warning at Feb 16, 2026, 4:47 PM MST for 6 counties in South Dakota; Campbell County, Weston County, Wyoming. It took effect at Feb 17, 2026, 9:00 AM MST. It was in force for 13 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued
Feb 16, 2026, 4:47 PM MST (23:47 UTC)
In effect from
Feb 17, 2026, 9:00 AM MST
Expired
Feb 17, 2026, 10:29 PM MST
In force
13 hr
Issued by
NWS Rapid City, SD

Counties Butte County, SD, Custer County, SD, Fall River County, SD, Harding County, SD, Meade County, SD, Perkins County, SD, Campbell County, WY, Weston County, WY

The radar

The Rapid City radar (KUDX), 75 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:46 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

The nearest sounding before it

Riverton, WY (KRIW), launched 12:00Z, 11.8 hours before the alert went out and 410 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-pSkew-T log-p diagram, Riverton, WY at 12:00Z on 2026-02-16Temperature and dew point through the depth of the atmosphere, with the mixed-layer parcel. CAPE 0 joules per kilogram.LCL10008507005003002001001 km2 km3 km6 km9 km12 km-30°-20°-10°0°10°20°30°40°
Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.
HodographHodograph, Riverton, WY at 12:00Z on 2026-02-16The wind through the lowest 10 kilometers. Zero to 1 km storm-relative helicity -4 square meters per square second.1939587897117136156Sfc1 km3 km6 km9 kmRMLM
The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.
Mixed-layer CAPE
0 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN
No buoyant parcel
Mixed-layer LCL
2365 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear
88 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity
-4 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity
104 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter
0.0
Supercell composite
0.0

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Rapid City, SD issued on the same UTC day.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Feb 15, 9:24 PM MSTHigh Wind WatchUNRCuster, Fall River, Oglala Lakota19 hr
Feb 15, 9:30 PM MSTFire Weather WatchUNRBennett, Custer, Fall River, Haakon, Jackson, Meade and 5 more14 hr
Feb 16, 11:41 AM MSTRed Flag WarningUNRBennett, Butte, Custer, Fall River, Haakon, Jackson and 7 more30 hr
Feb 16, 4:47 PM MSTWind AdvisoryUNRCuster, Lawrence24 hr

Nearby

High Wind Warnings in South Dakota, 2026High Wind Warnings in Wyoming, 2026Every high wind warning in 2026

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.