High Wind, Eastern Glacier
- When
- November 20, 11:40 AM MST
- Where
- Eastern Glacier forecast zone
- Measured
- 45 kt (52 mph)
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
Sustained wind speed of 35 kt (measured) reported as well by Cut Bank ASOS.
High Wind in Montana, November 20, 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 Nov 20, 8:55 AM MST, 2 hours 45 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 20, 8:55 AM MST, 2 hours 45 minutes before
SOUTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL MONTANA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREAT FALLS MT 855 AM MST TUE NOV 20 2001 .SHORT TERM...HIGH WIND WARNING FOR ZONES 9...10...AND 48 CONTINUES...WITH ZONE 46 ADDED. HIGH WIND WATCH FOR LATE THIS MORNING AND AFTERNOON FOR ZONES 11...44...45...46...47...AND 49 CANCELED. WINDS STILL APPEAR QUITE STRONG ALOFT AND WITH A FAST MOVING SHORT WAVE EXPECT THE WARNING CRITERIA TO BE MET. NOT CONFIDENT ABOUT THE WATCH ZONES HOWEVER AND WOULD NOT BE SURPRISED IF THE SUSTAINED WINDS ARE MORE OF A PROBLEM INSTEAD OF THE GUSTS. WILL UPDATE ZONES AND STATE FORECASTS TO REFLECT CHANGES. WILL LEAVE REMAINDER OF FORECAST AS IS FOR NOW. ZELZER. .EXTENDED...EXTENDED MODELS IN FAIR AGREEMENT WITH ALL CARVING LARGE LOW PRESSURE TROUGH OUT OVER WESTERN CONUS DURING THE WEEKEND. THIS WOULD PUSH THE STORM TRACK WELL TO THE SOUTH OF MT WHILE GRADUALLY PULLING IN COOLER AIR. THERE ARE A FEW DISTURBANCES THAT WILL BRUSH THE REGION FOR A SLIGHT CHANCE OF PRECIPITATION...MAINLY SOUTHWEST AND OVER THE MOUNTAINS. THIS PATTERN IS THEN EXPECTED TO PERSIST THROUGH MUCH OF NEXT WEEK. CCF NUMBERS GTF NE 057/038 048/032 042 03001 EEEEE 028/042 026/040 025/035 020/033 018 11111222221 CTB NN 055/033 044/028 038 03001 EEEEE 026/040 020/035 020/030 017/030 017 11111222222 HLN EE 050/030 045/026 040 03002 EEEEE 030/042 025/040 022/038 020/035 017 13112222222 BZN EE 048/027 043/022 039 03012 EEEEE 025/038 020/036 018/032 015/030 012 13112222222 WEY EE 042/025 035/015 035 03013 EEEEE 020/032 015/027 010/025 008/022 008 14223333333 DLN EE 046/028 042/024 038 03012 EEEEE 022/038 020/034 016/032 014/029 012 13112222222 HVR NE 058/030 048/026 042 03001 EEEEE 028/042 020/035 020/032 015/030 012 11112222222 LWT NE 057/035 045/027 040 03001 EEEEE 024/043 022/037 018/034 016/031 014 11111222222 .TFX...HIGH WIND WARNING FOR TODAY FOR ZONES 009 010 046 048
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
More
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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: 5273152.