1 wildfire, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 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 Billings, MT wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 23, 7:24 PM MST, 4 hours 37 minutes earlier.
SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST MONTANA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BILLINGS MT
824 PM MDT THU AUG 23 2001
.FRI AND SAT...
COLD FRONT IS STILL WEST OF THE FORECAST AREA. FRONT SHOULD MOVE
THROUGH THE LIVINGSTON AREA BY 04Z AND BILLINGS SHORTLY AFTER
MIDNIGHT. THE FRONT WILL REACH MILES CITY BY 12Z. STRONG SOUTHEAST FLOW
OF AIR OVER THE EXTREME SOUTHEAST IS CONTINUING TO KEEP DEW POINT
TEMPERATURES IN THE UPPER 50S. HIGH DEW POINT TEMPERATURES ALONG WITH A
WEAK SURFACE TROF MOVING ACROSS EASTERN MONTANA...COULD BRING ISOLATED
THUNDERSTORMS THIS EVENING. CURRENT FORECAST PACKAGE LOOKS GOOD. WILL
MAKE SOME MINOR ADJUSTMENTS TO THE FAR WESTERN ZONES MENTIONING SMOKE
DUE TO THE FIRE NEAR LIVINGSTON. RICHMOND
.SUN...MON...TUE...WED...THU...
MEDIUM RANGE MODELS AGREE AN UPPER LEVEL RIDGE WILL SLOWLY STRENGTHEN
OVER THE DESERT SOUTHWEST SUNDAY AND MONDAY. 500 MILLIBAR HEIGHTS ARE
FORECAST TO INCREASE TO 588 DECAMETERS OVER SOUTHERN MONTANA DURING THIS
TIME. THIS TRANSLATES TO HOT AND DRY WEATHER. HOT WEATHER LIKELY TO
CONTINUE INTO TUESDAY AS WELL BEFORE A SLOW MOVING COLD FRONT SAGS IN
FROM THE NORTHWEST AND ENTERS THE WEATHER PICTURE WEDNESDAY AND
THURSDAY. COLD FRONT MAY INITIATE STORMS LATE IN THE WEEK. SINCE IT/S AT
THE FAR END OF THE WEATHER PICTURE AND RECENT MODEL CONTINUITY HAS BEEN
FAIRLY POOR...WILL WORD IT MAINLY DRY FOR NOW. WILL ADJUST TEMPERATURES
UPWARDS SUNDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. R CANEPA
FRI SAT SUN MON TUE WED THU
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BIL 058/088 054/087 055/088 057/095 057/095 054/087 051/086
20/B 00/B 11/B 11/B 11/B 22/B 22/B
LVM 050/084 047/086 053/089 054/093 054/092 050/086 050/085
20/B 00/B 11/B 11/B 11/B 22/B 22/B
HDN 055/090 051/089 054/090 057/096 057/096 053/087 053/084
20/B 00/B 11/B 11/B 11/B 22/B 22/B
MLS 063/090 057/089 056/090 057/095 057/095 056/089 052/084
20/B 00/B 11/B 11/B 11/B 22/B 22/B
4BQ 061/089 056/089 053/090 056/094 056/095 054/089 054/085
20/B 00/B 11/B 11/B 11/B 22/B 22/B
BHK 060/086 055/086 054/090 056/095 056/094 053/088 053/085
22/T 00/B 11/B 11/B 11/B 22/B 22/B
SHR 056/086 052/086 051/089 055/096 055/095 051/088 048/085
20/B 00/B 11/B 11/B 11/B 22/B 22/BThe national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
Little Joe Fire--Gallatin National ForestDate Started: August 24, 2001Cause of Ignition: LightningLocation: 20 miles east of Gardiner, MontanaSize: 860 acresContained: September 3rd, 2001Cost: $3 million
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Montana in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Montana, August 2001
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: 5264472.