Thunderstorm Wind, Beaverhead
- When
- April 28, 2:44 PM MST
- Where
- Beaverhead County, Dillon Arpt
- Measured
- 55 kt (63 mph)
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
- Coordinates
- 45.250, -112.550
Dillon Airport ASOS.
Damaging Wind in Montana, April 28, 2001
1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. 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
- 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 forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Great Falls, MT wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 28, 2:00 PM MST, 44 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Apr 28, 2:00 PM MST, 44 minutes before
SOUTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL MONTANA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREAT FALLS MT 300 PM MDT SAT APR 28 2001 ATMOSPHERE UNSTABLE THIS AFTERNOON AND HEATING HAS KICKED OFF NUMEROUS THUNDERSTORMS. WILL RAISE POPS ACROSS CWA TO SCATTERED CATAGORY TONIGHT. UPPER TROF CONTINUES TO APPROACH WESTERN MONTANA AT THIS TIME. TROF AXIS SWINGS ACROSS CWA LATE TONIGHT/EARLY SUNDAY. ASSOCIATED SURFACE FRONT OVER NORTHWEST MONTANA AT THIS TIME AND SHOULD MOVE ACROSS LATE TONIGHT. FRONTAL PASSAGE LIKELY TO PRODUCE GUSTY WEST WINDS. GENERALLY WESTERLY FLOW ALOFT SUNDAY THROUGH MONDAY WITH A STRONGER VORTICITY CENTER MOVING ACROSS THE AREA MONDAY. TEMPERATURES MUCH COOLER SUNDAY BEHIND FRONTAL PASSAGE WITH THICKNESS VALUES CHANGING LITTLE MONDAY. EMANUEL EXTENDED... MEDIUM/EXTENDED MODELS PRETTY MUCH IN AGREEMENT ON GENERAL FEATURES THROUGH THURSDAY. SPLIT FLOW WITH UPPER LOW FORMING VICINITY UTAH. MRF FURTHEST NORTH WITH LOW. UPPER LOW CONTINUES TO DIG SOUTH THURSDAY INTO FRIDAY AND KEEPING MT IN GENERAL CYCLONIC FLOW ALOFT. DEFORMATION ZONE SETS UP NE TO SW MT ALONG WITH MORE UPLSOPE FLOW WEDNESDAY NIGHT INTO THURSDAY. UPPER RIDGE BEGINS TO FOLD OVER FROM PLAINS INTO MT IN RESPONSE TO LOW DIGGING E THROUGH SATURDAY FOR DECREASING POPS OVER PLAINS BUT BEING MAINTAINED OVER SW MOUNTAINS ALONG CONVERGENCE ZONE./SCHMIDT CCF NUMBERS GTF BB 040/062 038/064 038 08411 CTB BB 037/058 034/056 036 08322 HLN BB 042/062 038/062 038 08422 BZN BB 036/060 032/062 033 08422 WEY EE 030/056 025/053 026 08422 DLN BB 038/060 036/062 036 08412 HVR BB 045/065 041/063 040 08311 LWT BB 042/064 035/062 038 08411
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Avalanche in Utah, April 28, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Utah, April 28, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Colorado, April 28, 2001
- High Surf in Hawaii, April 28 to 30, 2001
- Wildfire in Pennsylvania, April 28, 2001
- Rip Current in American Samoa, April 28 to 30, 2001
- Wildfire in New Jersey, April 28 to 29, 2001
- Wildfire in New Jersey, April 28, 2001
- Hail in Oregon, April 28, 2001
- Wildfire in New Jersey, April 28, 2001
More
Every storm in Montana in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Montana, April 2001
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: 5249948.