Tornado, Big Horn
- When
- June 22, 1:35 PM MST to 1:55 PM MST
- Where
- Big Horn County, Hardin to 1 mi N of Hardin
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 4 mi
- Path width
- 5 yd
- Coordinates
- 45.750, -107.600
Tornado in Montana, June 22, 1996
An F1 tornado caused building and power line damage. The tornado tracked from 1 mile north of Hardin to 5 miles north of Hardin in Big Horn County of South Central Montana.
Where it happened
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- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
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 BYZ wrote it up.
An F1 tornado caused building and power line damage. The tornado tracked from 1 mile north of Hardin to 5 miles north of Hardin in Big Horn County of South Central Montana. Damage Costs unknown.
The radar
The Billings radar (KBLX), 79 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:26 UTC.
Event by event
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Flash Flood in Kentucky, June 22 to 23, 1996
- Heat in South Carolina, June 22, 1996
- Heat in Missouri, June 22, 1996
- Damaging Wind in New Jersey, June 22, 1996
- Tornadoes in Pennsylvania, June 22, 1996
- Flood in Nebraska, June 22 to 23, 1996
- Tornado in Michigan, June 22, 1996
- Flash Flood in Michigan, June 22, 1996
- Flash Flood in Michigan, June 22, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Mississippi, June 22, 1996
- Damaging Wind in New York, June 22, 1996
- Tornado in New York, June 22, 1996
More
Every storm in Montana in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Montana, 1996Warnings in Montana, June 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: 5552623.