High Wind, Butte / Pintlar Region
- When
- September 25, 7:45 AM MST
- Where
- Butte / Pintlar Region forecast zone
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph)
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 46.306, -113.025 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind in Montana, September 25, 1999
Metal roof torn off trailer home in Butte from strong winds. One power line was downed due to tree falling on it.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 2 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
- 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 MSO wrote it up.
Metal roof torn off trailer home in Butte from strong winds. One power line was downed due to tree falling on it. Portions of roofing from a double wide mobile home in Whitepine, Sanders County was torn off from strong winds. Roofing landed on two trucks parked next to the mobilehome, crushing them. Wind, broken tree limbs and downed power lines knocked out power to approximately 515 customers in western Montana. In Plains, shingles were ripped from the roof on a home on Airport Road. Fallen trees downed power lines and fences in the Plains area.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
2 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
High Wind, Lower Clark Fork Region
- When
- September 25, 1:30 PM MST to 2:00 PM MST
- Where
- Lower Clark Fork Region forecast zone
- Measured
- 50 kt (58 mph)
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 47.286, -114.685 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
What these are
- High Wind
- Sustained non-thunderstorm winds of 40 mph or more for an hour, or gusts of 58 mph or more.
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The same day elsewhere
- High Wind in Oregon, September 25, 1999
- Lightning Strike in New York, September 25, 1999
- Wildfire and Dust Storm in Washington, September 25, 1999
- Lightning Strike in Texas, September 25, 1999
- Flash Flood and Flood in Florida, September 25 to 26, 1999
- High Wind in Idaho, September 25, 1999
- High Wind in Idaho, September 25, 1999
- Lightning Strike in Oklahoma, September 25, 1999
- High Wind in Wyoming, September 25, 1999
- Wildfire in Oregon, September 25 to 29, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Wind in South Dakota, September 25, 1999
- High Wind in South Dakota, September 25, 1999
More
Every storm in Montana in 1999Every state in 1999This day in weather historyWarnings in Montana, September 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 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5717667, 5717668.