Heavy Snow, Big Horn
- When
- April 9, 2:00 PM MST
- Where
- Big Horn forecast zone
- Property damage
- $1.2 million
- Reported by
- DEPT OF HIGHWAYS
Heavy, wet snow with 4 to 5 foot drifts in the Decker and Kirby area along highway 314.
Heavy Snow in Montana, April 9, 2001
An early spring snowstorm blasted parts of South Central and Southeast Montana on April 8th and April 9th. Southern Big Horn County was the hardest hit.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $1.2 million
- 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.
An early spring snowstorm blasted parts of South Central and Southeast Montana on April 8th and April 9th. Southern Big Horn County was the hardest hit. An estimated 600 power poles were knocked down from heavy, wet snow, ice, and wind. Thousands of people were without power for up to 7 days. The hardest hit area was along Route 314 in the Kirby/Decker area...as well as...in the western end of the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation.
Event by event
1 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Heavy Snow
- Snowfall reaching the local warning threshold without the other hazards of a winter storm.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, April 9, 2001
- Tornado and Hail in Ohio, April 9, 2001
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Missouri, April 9 to 10, 2001
- Damaging Wind in California, April 9, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Indiana, April 9 to 10, 2001
- Flash Flood and Flood in Pennsylvania, April 9, 2001
- Hail in Michigan, April 9, 2001
- Tornado and Hail in Illinois, April 9 to 10, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Pennsylvania, April 9, 2001
- Tornadoes and Hail in Pennsylvania, April 9, 2001
- Heavy Rain in New York, April 9 to 10, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Indiana, April 9 to 10, 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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5239388.