Heavy Snow in Montana, March 14, 2001

Name: Heavy Snow in Montana, March 14, 2001
Start: 2001-03-14T07:00
End: 2001-03-14T16:30
Location: Montana

March 14, 2001 · NWS TFX · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 heavy snow, 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 14, 3:00 AM MST, 4 hours earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 14, 3:00 AM MST, 4 hours before

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Event by event

1 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.

Heavy Snow, Cascade

When: March 14, 7:00 AM MST to 4:30 PM MST
Where: Cascade forecast zone
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER

10 inches snowfall reported by spotter at Neihart 8 NNW.

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

Every storm in Montana in 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history Warnings 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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5236590.