High Wind, Flathead/Mission Valleys
- When
- January 12, 3:00 AM MST
- Where
- Flathead/Mission Valleys forecast zone
- Coordinates
- 47.872, -114.424 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind in Montana, January 12, 1996
High winds blew a shed onto a llama on a farm 4 miles south of Great Falls. Wind gusts of 64 mph at Cut Bank and 52 mph at Great Falls were recorded overnight.
Where it happened
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- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
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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.
High winds blew a shed onto a llama on a farm 4 miles south of Great Falls. Wind gusts of 64 mph at Cut Bank and 52 mph at Great Falls were recorded overnight.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
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
- Cold in South Carolina, January 12, 1996
- Heavy Snow in Pennsylvania, January 12, 1996
- Heavy Snow in Virginia, January 12, 1996
- Heavy Snow in Maine, January 12 to 13, 1996
- Heavy Snow in New Hampshire, January 12 to 13, 1996
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, January 12, 1996
- Heavy Snow in Maryland, January 12, 1996
- Winter Storm in Vermont, January 12 to 13, 1996
- Winter Storm in New York, January 12 to 13, 1996
- Heavy Snow in Pennsylvania, January 12 to 13, 1996
- Heavy Snow in Pennsylvania, January 12 to 13, 1996
- Heavy Snow in New York, January 12 to 13, 1996
More
Every storm in Montana in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyWarnings in Montana, January 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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5548069.