High Wind, North Rocky Mountain Front
- When
- November 27, 9:13 AM MST
- Where
- North Rocky Mountain Front forecast zone
- Measured
- 73 kt (84 mph)
High Wind in Montana, November 27, 1996
A weather spotter at Heart Butte reported a wind gust of 84 mph. A wind gust of 61 mph was also reported at Boulder.
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.
A weather spotter at Heart Butte reported a wind gust of 84 mph. A wind gust of 61 mph was also reported at Boulder. The time of the wind gust at Boulder is estimated.
Event by event
2 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
High Wind, Cascade
- When
- November 27, 9:13 AM MST
- Where
- Cascade forecast zone
- Measured
- 53 kt (61 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
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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5580790, 5580791.