High Wind, North Rocky Mountain Front
- When
- December 20, 12:50 AM MST
- Where
- North Rocky Mountain Front forecast zone
- Measured
- 70 kt (81 mph)
High Wind in Montana, December 20, 1996
Heart Butte had a wind gust of 81 mph.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- 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 TFX wrote it up.
Heart Butte had a wind gust of 81 mph.
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
- Winter Storm in California, December 20 to 23, 1996
- Heavy Snow in California, December 20 to 22, 1996
- Winter Storm in Montana, December 20 to 30, 1996
- Heavy Snow in Utah, December 20 to 24, 1996
- High Wind in Colorado, December 20, 1996
- Winter Storm in Nevada, December 20 to 23, 1996
- Blizzard in North Dakota, December 20 to 21, 1996
- Heavy Snow in Idaho, December 20 to 21, 1996
- Winter Storm in Colorado, December 20 to 21, 1996
- Heavy Snow in Wyoming, December 20, 1996
- Blizzard in Minnesota, December 20 to 21, 1996
- Heavy Snow in Pennsylvania, December 20, 1996
More
Every storm in Montana in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyWarnings in Montana, December 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 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5579962.