1 high wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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.
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 Feb 13, 9:30 AM MST, 2 hours 30 minutes earlier.
SOUTHWEST AND NORTH CENTRAL MONTANA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREAT FALLS MT
930 AM MST WED FEB 13 2002
.SHORT TERM...MODELS LOOK OK WITH THEIR INITIALIZATIONS OF THE
SHORTWAVE THAT IS FORECAST TO MOVE SE THROUGH THE AREA TONIGHT.
LATEST ETA IS FARTHER W WITH THE VORTICITY CENTER ASSOCIATED WITH
THIS SHORTWAVE. EVEN WITH THIS CHANGE CURRENT FORECAST LOOKS IN
PRETTY GOOD SHAPE. WILL UP POP AT GTF TO LIKELY CATEGORY. WILL ALSO
MENTION SOME SNOW ACCUMULATIONS FOR THE LOWER ELEVATIONS OF CENTRAL
MT FOR TONIGHT. FOR TODAY CHINOOK ARCH COVERS MUCH OF THE PLAINS. 06Z
AVN AS WELL AS PREVIOUS AVN RUNS MOVE/MOVED THIS MOISTURE E THIS
AFTERNOON POSSIBLY DUE TO A PASSAGE OF A WEAK UPPER SHORTWAVE. WILL
MAKE SOME ADJUSTMENTS TO CLOUD FORECASTS FOR THE PLAINS FOR TODAY.
NOT SURE THAT HIGH WINDS WILL BE REACHED OVER THE ROCKY MOUNTAIN
FRONT THIS AFTERNOON. BUT NOT CONFIDENT ENOUGH THAT HIGH WINDS WILL
NOT HAPPEN TO DROP THE WARNING. BLANK
.EXTENDED...PERIOD BEGINS ON SATURDAY WITH A HIGH PRESSURE RIDGE
OVERHEAD...AND GENERALLY WARM TEMPS. SERIES OF WEAK SHORTWAVES SHOULD
MAINLY BE A CAUSE OF PRECIP IN THE MOUNTAINS. MAIN PATTERN THRU THE
PERIOD IS A SPLIT IN THE WESTERLY FLOW...KEEPING THE CWA IN A DRY
PATTERN. SOUTHWEST MT MAY BE THE EXCEPTION MON AND TUES AS THE
SOUTHERN SPLIT OF THE TROF AFFECTS THE AREA. ZELZER
.CCF NUMBERS
GTF NB 048/018 035/025 046 13062
BENNE 025/045 028/040 022/040 020/040 020 00111222211
CTB NB 046/018 035/015 044 13031
BENNE 024/042 020/036 018/035 018/035 018 00112222211
HLN EB 044/020 035/012 038 13022
BEEEE 018/038 016/035 015/037 015/037 015 00122222211
BZN BB 032/015 032/002 030 13022
BEEEE 015/030 015/030 015/030 015/030 015 00122222211
WEY BB 022/905 020/912 022 13044
BEJEE 010/028 002/025 002/025 002/025 002 00122333311
DLN BB 034/014 030/005 032 13011
BEJEE 012/035 015/034 015/034 015/034 015 00122322211
HVR NB 048/017 035/014 046 13051
BEENN 021/045 019/038 015/033 015/033 015 00111111111
LWT NB 045/020 030/015 040 13073
BEEEE 028/042 020/035 020/035 020/035 020 00111111111
.TFX...HIGH WIND WARNING ROCKY MTN FRONT WED AFTERNOON AND
EARLY EVENING (ZONES 009/048)1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A high wind event occurred over the Northern Rocky Mountain Front during the afternoon and early evening hours on the 13th. Sustained winds of 40 mph with gusts up to 47 mph were reported in Two Medicine at 1648 MST.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Montana in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Montana, February 2002
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