High Wind, Eastern Glacier
- When
- March 13, 2:54 PM MST
- Where
- Eastern Glacier forecast zone
- Measured
- 54 kt (62 mph)
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
Cut Bank ASOS.
High Wind in Montana, March 13, 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 Mar 13, 8:30 AM MST, 6 hours 24 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 13, 8:30 AM MST, 6 hours 24 minutes before
SOUTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL MONTANA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREAT FALLS MT 830 AM MST TUE MAR 13 2001 TFX RADAR ALREADY SHOWING SHOWERS OVER THE MOUNTAINS TO THE WEST AND SOUTHWEST. FORECAST HAS SHOWERS ONLY THIS AFTERNOON MOUNTAINS...SO WILL UPDATE ZONES. NEW ETA SIMILAR TO PREVIOUS PROGS WITH SHORT WAVE MOVING EAST SOUTHEAST INTO MONTANA TONIGHT. CANADIAN FRONT NOW LOOKS LIKE IT WILL BE MOVING SOUTH ONTO PLAINS ABOUT 12Z WEDNESDAY...AND THERE IS EVEN ANOTHER SHORT WAVE APPROACHING FROM THE NORTHWEST WEDNESDAY AFTERNOON. PATTERN LOOKS FAIRLY WET AND MODEL QPF...NORMALLY TOO HIGH FOR THE PLAINS...IS FORECASTING FAIR AMOUNTS. OARD EXTENDED...H5 RIDGE OVER THE AREA DAYS 3 AND 4 WILL KEEP AREA GENERALLY DRY. REX BLOCK PATTERN SETS UP DAY 4 WITH POSITIVE TILT UPPER RIDGE NOSING OVER CWA WITH CLOSED UPPER LOW SOUTH OF THE STATE. WEAK UPPER TROF MOVES ACROSS AREA DAY 5 BUT PRECIPITATION TEMPERED SOMEWHAT BY LEE SIDE TROF THAT DEVELOPS. LEE SIDE TROF STRENGTHENS DAYS 6 AND 7 FOR DRY BUT WINDY CONDITIONS. EMANUEL CCF NUMBERS GTF EO 054/027 035/022 042 08167 CTB EJ 052/025 032/016 038 08177 HLN EO 052/032 038/020 044 08155 BZN EO 046/028 037/014 040 08166 WEY EJ 045/022 030/010 034 08377 DLN EJ 048/027 036/012 044 08244 HVR EO 055/032 040/022 043 08145 LWT EO 052/028 036/018 040 08147
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
- Tornado and Hail in Florida, March 13, 2001
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- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, March 13, 2001
- High Wind in Washington, March 13, 2001
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in Maryland, March 13, 2001
- Damaging Winds in West Virginia, March 13, 2001
- Winter Weather in New York, March 13, 2001
- High Wind in Washington, March 13, 2001
- High Wind in Washington, March 13, 2001
- Winter Weather in Vermont, March 13, 2001
- High Wind in West Virginia, March 13, 2001
More
Every storm in Montana in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Montana, March 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: 5236583.