High Wind, Beaverhead
- When
- April 24, 4:00 PM MST to April 25, 4:00 PM MST
- Where
- Beaverhead forecast zone
- Measured
- 75 kt (86 mph)
- Property damage
- $1,000
High Wind in Montana, April 24 to 25, 1996
A STRONG PACIFIC FRONTAL SYSTEM MOVED RAPIDLY ACROSS NORTHEAST MONTANA. IN ITS WAKE STRONG WEST TO NORTHWEST WIND DEVELOPED.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $1,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS GGW wrote it up.
A STRONG PACIFIC FRONTAL SYSTEM MOVED RAPIDLY ACROSS NORTHEAST MONTANA. IN ITS WAKE STRONG WEST TO NORTHWEST WIND DEVELOPED. SUSTAINED WINDS OF 40 TO 50 MILES AN HOUR OCCURRED AND GUSTS TO 70 MILES AN HOUR WERE COMMON. A PEAK GUST OF 86 MILES AN HOUR WEST REPORTED SOUTHWEST OF VANDALIA.
Event by event
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- High Wind
- Sustained non-thunderstorm winds of 40 mph or more for an hour, or gusts of 58 mph or more.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- High Wind in South Dakota, April 24 to 25, 1996
- High Wind in Idaho, April 24, 1996
- Flood in Idaho, April 24 to 26, 1996
- High Wind in Utah, April 24, 1996
- High Wind in Wyoming, April 24 to 25, 1996
- High Wind in Wyoming, April 24, 1996
- High Wind in South Dakota, April 24, 1996
- High Wind in Colorado, April 24 to 25, 1996
- High Wind in Nebraska, April 24, 1996
- High Wind in Colorado, April 24 to 25, 1996
- High Wind in Montana, April 24, 1996
- Debris Flow in Oregon, April 24 to 26, 1996
More
Every storm in Montana in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyWarnings in Montana, April 1996
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5582850.