Funnel Cloud, Carter
- When
- May 21, 12:15 PM MST
- Where
- Carter County, 8 mi W of Ridgeway
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 45.517, -104.536 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Public report of four funnel clouds.
Hail in Montana, May 21, 1999
3 funnel cloud, 2 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 3 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
- 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
- 5
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.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
3 funnel cloud, 2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Funnel Cloud, Carter
- When
- May 21, 12:23 PM MST
- Where
- Carter County, 10 mi NW of Alzada
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 45.517, -104.536 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Funnel Cloud, Carter
- When
- May 21, 12:25 PM MST
- Where
- Carter County, Ekalaka
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 45.517, -104.536 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Hail, Carbon
- When
- May 21, 1:55 PM MST
- Where
- Carbon County, 4 mi N of Red Lodge
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 45.230, -109.250
Golf ball size hail was reported by Carbon County Sheriff's dispatch.
Hail, Yellowstone
- When
- May 21, 2:43 PM MST
- Where
- Yellowstone County, Pompeys Pillar
- Measured
- 0.88 in hail
- Reported by
- OTHER FEDERAL AGENCY
- Coordinates
- 46.000, -107.950
What these are
- Funnel Cloud
- A rotating column of cloud extending from a thunderstorm that did not reach the ground.
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Flooding in Iowa, May 21 to 25, 1999
- Tornado in Florida, May 21, 1999
- Hail in Nebraska, May 21, 1999
- Lightning Strike in Florida, May 21, 1999
- Hail in Florida, May 21, 1999
- Wildfire in Florida, May 21 to 25, 1999
- Hail in Nebraska, May 21, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Mississippi, May 21, 1999
- Lightning Strike in Florida, May 21, 1999
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Oklahoma, May 21, 1999
- Flash Flood and Hail in New Mexico, May 21, 1999
- Wildfire in Florida, May 21 to 23, 1999
More
Every storm in Montana in 1999Every state in 1999This day in weather historyWarnings in Montana, May 1999
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: 5694538, 5694539, 5694540, 5694541, 5694542.