Heavy Snow, Sweet Grass
- When
- April 18, 3:50 PM MST
- Where
- Sweet Grass forecast zone
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
5 inches of snow in Big Timber
Heavy Snow in Montana, April 18, 2002
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.
Event by event
1 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
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
- High Wind in Nebraska, April 18, 2002
- Tornadoes and Flooding in Wisconsin, April 18 to 19, 2002
- Tornadoes and Hail in Iowa, April 18, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, April 18, 2002
- High Wind in Iowa, April 18, 2002
- Flash Flood and Damaging Winds in Maryland, April 18, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Michigan, April 18, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Michigan, April 18, 2002
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strikes in Virginia, April 18, 2002
- High Wind in Nebraska, April 18, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Wisconsin, April 18, 2002
- Tornado and Hail in Kansas, April 18 to 19, 2002
More
Every storm in Montana in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Montana, April 2002
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: 5285235.