High Wind, North Rocky Mountain Front
- When
- May 14, 7:36 PM MST to 7:37 PM MST
- Where
- North Rocky Mountain Front forecast zone
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph)
High Wind in Montana, May 14, 1996
A thunderstorm wind gust at 52 kts occurred at Mizpah in Custer County of Southeast Montana. No known damages occurred.
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.
A thunderstorm wind gust at 52 kts occurred at Mizpah in Custer County of Southeast Montana. No known damages occurred.
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
- Lightning Strike in Nebraska, May 14, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Texas, May 14, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Texas, May 14, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Idaho, May 14, 1996
- Drought in Arkansas, May 14 to 31, 1996
- Flooding in Kentucky, May 14 to 20, 1996
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Montana, May 14, 1996
- Heat in Alaska, May 14, 1996
- Heat in Alaska, May 14, 1996
- Flood in Missouri, May 14 to 15, 1996
- Hail in Oklahoma, May 14, 1996
- Hail in Oklahoma, May 14, 1996
More
Every storm in Montana in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyWarnings in Montana, May 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: 5543493.