1 high wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 Billings, MT wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at May 14, 8:15 AM MST, 2 hours 45 minutes earlier.
SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST MONTANA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BILLINGS MT
915 AM MDT TUE MAY 14 2002
.SHORT TERM...VALID FOR TDY...WED...THU...
MINOR UPDATES ON THE WAY TO ZFP BUT NOT AFP. FRONT MOVING THROUGH
WESTERN ZONES THIS MORNING AND SHOULD REACH THE BILLINGS AREA AROUND
NOON...AND EASTERN ZONES THIS AFTERNOON. CHANCE FOR AFTERNOON
THUNDERSTORMS AND GUSTY WINDS FORECAST STILL LOOKS ON TRACK SO
ADJUSTMENTS TO POPS AND WINDS NOT NECESSARY ATTM. CLOUD COVER IN
BILLINGS KEEPING TEMPS LOWER THAN EXPECTED...AND WILL STRUGGLE TO REACH
CURRENT FORECAST HIGHS SO WILL LOWER TEMPS A FEW DEGREES THERE AND
FRESHEN WORDING IN THE ZONES. MACZKO
.LONG TERM...VALID FOR FRI...SAT...SUN...MON...
MODELS ARE STILL CONSISTENT IN DROPPING CLOSED UPPER LOW SOUTH ALONG THE
BRITISH COLUMBIA COAST ON FRIDAY. THIS WILL AMPLIFY A RIDGE OF HIGH
PRESSURE OVER THE FORECAST AREA THURSDAY NIGHT AND FRIDAY KEEPING
THE AREA IN A COOL AND STABLE NORTH FLOW OF AIR ALOFT. HIGH PRESSURE
RIDGE SHIFTS EASTWARD LATE FRIDAY ALLOWING A SOUTHWEST FLOW OF AIR ALOFT
TO SETUP OVER THE AREA. SEVERAL SHORT WAVES WILL BE MOVING THROUGH THIS
FLOW AND ISOLATED PRECIPITATION WILL BE POSSIBLE FRIDAY NIGHT AND
SATURDAY. MRF/ECMWF ARE IN GOOD AGREEMENT IN MOVING UPPER LEVEL LOW
PRESSURE SYSTEM SOUTH TO NEAR 40N 130W BY MONDAY. THIS WILL CONTINUE TO
BRING A MOIST AND UNSTABLE SOUTHWEST FLOW ALOFT TO SC/SE MT SUNDAY
THROUGH MONDAY. TEMPERATURES THROUGH THE PERIOD WILL REMAIN AT OR
SLIGHTLY ABOVE NORMAL. RICHMOND
TDY WED THU FRI SAT SUN MON
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BIL 074 040/062 038/062 043/066 044/068 049/074 046/074
4/T 40/E 02/W 00/B 22/B 33/T 33/T
LVM 068 034/059 034/059 040/063 042/067 047/070 043/070
4/T 40/E 22/W 00/B 22/B 33/T 33/T
HDN 076 039/063 037/063 042/065 043/070 044/073 044/076
4/T 40/E 02/W 00/B 22/B 33/T 33/T
MLS 082 042/062 038/062 047/065 049/069 052/072 047/072
3/T 40/E 02/W 00/B 22/B 33/T 33/T
4BQ 082 042/062 038/062 047/066 048/068 048/073 047/073
3/T 40/E 02/W 00/B 22/B 33/T 33/T
BHK 081 040/061 037/061 045/065 046/065 052/071 049/071
3/T 40/E 02/W 00/B 22/B 33/T 33/T
SHR 079 035/062 035/062 042/064 043/067 052/073 047/073
3/T 40/E 22/W 00/B 22/B 33/T 33/T
.BYZ...NONE.The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Winds in excess of 60 mph 6 miles southwest of Molt
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