High Wind, North Rocky Mountain Front
- When
- December 30, 10:00 PM MST to 11:40 PM MST
- Where
- North Rocky Mountain Front forecast zone
- Measured
- 69 kt (79 mph)
High Wind in Montana, December 30, 1996
Wind gusts of 79 mph were reported during the late evening hours at both St. Mary and Ennis.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
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.
Wind gusts of 79 mph were reported during the late evening hours at both St. Mary and Ennis.
Event by event
2 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
High Wind, Madison
- When
- December 30, 10:00 PM MST to 11:40 PM MST
- Where
- Madison forecast zone
- Measured
- 69 kt (79 mph)
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
- Flood in California, December 30 to 31, 1996
- High Wind in Hawaii, December 30 to 31, 1996
- Dense Fog in Florida, December 30, 1996
- High Wind in Nevada, December 30, 1996
- Heavy Snow in Wisconsin, December 30, 1996
- Heavy Snow in Wisconsin, December 30 to 31, 1996
- Heavy Snow in Minnesota, December 30 to 31, 1996
- Heavy Snow in Michigan, December 30 to 31, 1996
- High Wind in Oregon, December 30 to 31, 1996
- Heavy Snow in Montana, December 30, 1996
- High Wind in California, December 30, 1996
- High Wind in California, December 30, 1996
More
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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: 5579966, 5579967.