Thunderstorm Wind, Gallatin
- When
- June 2, 1:10 PM MST
- Where
- Gallatin County, Bozeman
- Measured
- 61 kt (70 mph)
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 45.683, -111.033
Actual spotter location is Bozeman 20 N.
Damaging Wind in Montana, June 2, 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 Jun 2, 8:45 AM MST, 4 hours 25 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 2, 8:45 AM MST, 4 hours 25 minutes before
SOUTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL MONTANA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREAT FALLS MT 945 AM MDT SAT JUN 2 2001 ...UPDATES PLANNED FOR ZONES AND STATE... A LOT OF WEATHER TO CONTEND WITH THIS MORNING. RADAR INDICATING SOME SHOWERS OVER THE FAR NRN ZONES BUT THEY SHOULD BE MOVING OUT OF AREA BY NOON. LATEST ETA/NGM FORECAST A SHORTWAVE TO MOVE THROUGH SW MT THIS AFTERNOON. WILL RAISE POPS A TAD AT BZN SO AS TO BE ABLE TO WORD THE FORECAST AS SHOWERS/THUNDERSTORMS LIKELY. LATEST SPC OUTLOOK HAS FERGUS COUNTY UNDER A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. WILL MENTION A POSSIBILITY OF HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS FOR A PORTION OF SW AND CENTRAL MT INTO EARLY THIS EVENING. FORECAST FREEZING LEVELS GET LOW ENOUGH SUN THAT WILL NEED TO MENTION POSSIBILITY OF SNOW FOR AT LEAST THE HIGHER MOUNTAINS. WILL LOWER FORECAST HIGHS TODAY A LITTLE AT GTF AND HLN AND RAISE THEM SOME FOR LWT ZONE GROUPING. LOOKING AHEAD TO SUN LATEST ETA/NGM DEVELOP A CLOSED UPPER LOW OVER WY WITH FLOW ALOFT BACKING TO SE OVER THE PLAINS OF THE FORECAST AREA. AT THE SURFACE MODELS HAVE AN INVERTED SURFACE TROUGH FROM SE MT TO N CENTRAL MT. THIS POSITION IS FARTHER W THAN RUNS FROM LAST NIGHT. LATEST ETA/NGM DEVELOP SIGNIFICANT 12HR QPF VALUES OF NEAR AN INCH AND A HALF NEAR AND E OF THE SURFACE TROUGH AXIS FOR THE PERIOD 12Z SUN TO 00Z MON. BIG DIFFERENCES EXIST WITH THE POSITION OF THE UPPER LOW BY MON AFTERNOON AS THE LATEST ETA HAS THE UPPER LOW OVER SW SD WHILE THE 06Z AVN RUN HAD THE UPPER LOW OVER N CENTRAL MT. WILL BE INTERESTING TO SEE WHAT THE LATEST AVN DOES. BLANK EXTENDED...MRF AND EUROPEAN MEDIUM RANGE MODELS AGAIN IN GENERAL AGREEMENT. WILL CONTINUE WITH SOME LINGERING SHOWERS DAY 3 AS CLOSED UPPER LOW REMAINS OVER EASTERN MONTANA. DAYS 4 AND 5 APPEAR DRY AS LOW AMPLITUDE H5 RIDGE MOVES OVER THE AREA. SOUTHWEST FLOW ALOFT INCREASES A BIT DAYS 6 AND 7 AND WILL LEAVE MENTION OF ISOLATED SHOWERS. EMANUEL CCF NUMBERS GTF WW 073/036 060/034 062 08333 CTB WW 068/035 056/030 058 08222 HLN TT 070/042 060/036 062 08433 BZN TT 072/040 058/032 060 08555 WEY TT 065/032 054/026 056 08656 DLN TW 072/035 056/030 060 08423 HVR TT 072/042 062/035 062 08353 LWT TT 064/040 056/035 060 08565
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
- Tornado in Kentucky, June 2, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Florida, June 2, 2001
- Tornado in Tennessee, June 2, 2001
- Lightning Strikes in Florida, June 2 to 4, 2001
- Tornado in Ohio, June 2, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in West Virginia, June 2, 2001
- Hail in Mississippi, June 2, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Maryland, June 2, 2001
- Hail in Colorado, June 2 to 4, 2001
- Hail in Michigan, June 2, 2001
- Flooding in Missouri, June 2 to 12, 2001
- High Wind in Colorado, June 2, 2001
More
Every storm in Montana in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Montana, June 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: 5228859.