High Wind, Cascade
- When
- January 5, 2:15 AM MST
- Where
- Cascade forecast zone
- Measured
- 55 kt (63 mph)
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
53kt Malmstrom AFB ASOS 1158 MST.
High Wind in Montana, January 5, 2001
1 high wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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 Jan 5, 2:15 AM MST, 0 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jan 5, 2:15 AM MST, 0 minutes before
SOUTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL MONTANA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREAT FALLS MT 300 AM MST FRI JAN 5 2001 MODELS IN GOOD AGREEMENT MOVING SEVERAL SHORTWAVES OVER CWA TODAY AND THIS EVENING. 700 MB FL0W...SHORTWAVE AND DOWNSLOPE GRADS WILL COMBINE TO BRING HIGH WINDS TO EAST SLOPES TODAY. WILL KEEP PREVIOUSLY ISSUED HIGH WIND WARNING FOR TODAY...AND WILL EXTEND IT TO KEEP WINDS BLOWING INTO THE EVENING HOURS SINCE SECOND SHORTWAVE TIGHTENS UP 700 MB GRADIENT SIGNIFICANTLY THIS EVENING. ALTHOUGH FLOW DOES BECOME MORE NWLY AFTER 00Z...BELIEVE THAT DOWNWARD COMPONENT BEHIND THIS SHORTWAVE AND STRONG UPPER LEVEL JET STREAK WILL KEEP WINDS ABOVE WARNING CRITERIA THROUGH 06Z. HIGH TEMPS WILL BE NEAR RECORD LEVELS MANY LOCATIONS TODAY...FOLLOWED BY A COOLING TREND FOR SATURDAY AS THICKNESSES DROP BEHIND TODAY/S SYSTEM. DECENT MID-LEVEL MOISTURE ADVECTION TODAY WILL BRING CLOUDY SKIES TO PLAINS AND VALLEYS...AND OROGRAPHIC SNOWS TO ROCKY MTNS. ABUNDANT LOW LEVEL MOISTURE MOVES INTO SWRN ZONES TONIGHT FOR CONTINUING CLOUDS AND SOME SHOWERS. MODELS INDICATE THAT MOISTURE OVER PLAINS SHOULD CLEAR OUT BY TONIGHT...BUT EXPECT THAT RIDGE BUILDING OVER PAC NW WILL BE DIRTY AND WILL NOT RULE OUT CHINOOK ARCH FORMATION. EXTENDED...MEDIUM RANGE MODELS APPEAR TO HAVE FAIRLY GOOD RUN TO RUN CONSISTENCY...AND ACCEPTABLE AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE DIFFERENT MODELS. UPPER LEVEL RIDGE REMAINS OVER NRN ROCKIES THRU THE WEEKEND...THEN SHIFTS EASTWARD BY LATE MONDAY AS A SERIES OF SHORTWAVES BEGIN TO DIG INTO THE EASTERN PACIFIC. NEWEST MRF IS A BIT FASTER BRINGING AN UPPER LEVEL TROUGH INTO CWA BY THURSDAY. CURRENT FORECAST ALREADY ADDRESSES COOLER TEMPS AND INCREASING CHANCE OF SHOWERS BY THIS TIME...SO WILL NOT MAKE ANY CHANGES TO GOING PACKAGE. MPJ GTF NN 055/030 043/028 050 140000 CTB NN 050/027 040/024 047 140000 HLN NB 050/028 042/018 036 141100 BZN EB 047/022 037/012 040 J141110 WEY EB 035/010 027/005 030 142210 DLN EB 045/022 035/015 037 141100 HVR NN 052/030 042/021 039 141000 LWT NN 052/027 040/022 048 140000
Event by event
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- High Wind
- Sustained non-thunderstorm winds of 40 mph or more for an hour, or gusts of 58 mph or more.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Extreme Cold in Florida, January 5, 2001
- Frost and Freeze in Florida, January 5, 2001
- Heavy Snow in Michigan, January 5, 2001
- Heavy Snow in Ohio, January 5, 2001
- Heavy Snow in Pennsylvania, January 5, 2001
- Heavy Snow in New Jersey, January 5, 2001
- Winter Weather in Maryland, January 5, 2001
- Blizzard and Extreme Cold in Alaska, January 5 to 8, 2001
- Heavy Snow in Pennsylvania, January 5, 2001
- Winter Weather in Virginia, January 5, 2001
- Heavy Snow in New Hampshire, January 5 to 6, 2001
- Winter Weather in West Virginia, January 5, 2001
More
Every storm in Montana in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Montana, January 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: 5228865.