1 wildfire, 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 Aug 9, 8:06 PM MST, 3 hours 54 minutes earlier.
SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHEAST MONTANA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BILLINGS MT
906 PM MDT SAT AUG 9 2003
.SHORT TERM...VALID FOR SUN AND MON...
SATELLITE AND RADAR IMAGERY SHOWING MAIN AREA OF THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS
POWDER RIVER AND CARTER COUNTIES. ACTIVITY THAT MOVED INTO PARK AND
STILLWATER COUNTIES EARLIER THIS EVENING HAS FOR THE MOST PART
DISSIPATED. HOWEVER...A FEW THUNDERSTORMS CONTINUE ACROSS THOSE AREAS.
EVEN THOUGH ACTIVITY IS WINDING DOWN...WILL STILL LEAVE THUNDERSTORM
CHANCES IN GRIDS AS ANOTHER WEAK WAVE LOOKS TO MOVE OVER THE AREA LATER
THIS EVENING. CLOUDS AND CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY ARE ON THE DECREASE
ACROSS SOUTHWEST MONTANA WITH CLEAR SKIES ACROSS IDAHO AND WESTERN
WYOMING. EXPECT SKIES TO BEGIN TO CLEAR FROM WEST TO EAST AFTER MIDNIGHT
BUT REMAIN PARTLY CLOUDY OUT EAST. EVENING TEMPERATURES MOSTLY IN THE
80S WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE LIVINGSTON AREA WHERE SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS HAVE ALLOWED READINGS TO DROP INTO THE UPPER 60S. WILL
STILL CONTINUE THE FIRE WEATHER WATCH ACROSS THE SOUTHWEST ZONES UNTIL
MIDNIGHT. OVERNIGHT FORECAST LOOKS TO BE IN GOOD SHAPE. THEREFORE...NO
UPDATES ARE PLANNED AT THIS TIME. HOOLEY
.LONG TERM...VALID FOR TUE...WED...THU...FRI...SAT...
MEDIUM RANGE MODELS CONSISTENT WITH KEEPING UPPER LOW ALONG THE WEST
COAST THROUGH WEDNESDAY. THIS WOULD SUPPORT STRONG THERMAL RIDGE
CONTINUING ACROSS MONTANA TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY...WHICH IS BEING
PROGGED. THUS WILL RAISE HIGH TEMPS AT LEAST 5 DEGREES IN ALL BUT FAR
WEST TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY INTO THE MID AND UPPER 90S. WITH PATTERN
SIMILAR TO PAST FEW DAYS AT LEAST SOME CONVECTION A GOOD BET AND WILL
ADD POPS IN THE WEST BOTH DAYS. BEYOND WEDNESDAY LOW PROGGED TO COME
ONSHORE AND LIFT NORTHEAST...BREAKING DOWN UPPER RIDGE. ASSOCIATED
FRONTAL PASSAGE LOOKS DRY BUT WINDY...AND WILL HAVE TO BE MONITORED FOR
FIRE WEATHER CONCERNS. COOLING TREND THROUGH DAYS 5 THROUGH 7 LOOK ON
TRACK AS RIDGE BREAKS DOWN. JZ
SUN MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT
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BIL 066/097 067/101 066/098 067/096 066/091 063/089 063/088
20/G 32/T 20/G 00/G 00/G 00/B 00/B
LVM 054/094 055/096 051/090 054/088 053/086 051/085 051/084
22/T 32/T 32/T 23/T 30/B 00/U 00/U
HDN 064/099 065/102 064/100 065/099 064/092 061/090 061/089
30/G 22/T 20/G 00/G 00/G 00/G 00/B
MLS 067/098 067/101 065/099 066/099 065/092 061/090 061/089
30/G 20/G 20/G 00/G 00/G 00/G 00/B
4BQ 066/098 066/101 064/098 064/098 063/092 059/090 060/089
30/G 20/G 20/G 00/G 00/G 00/G 00/B
BHK 061/094 062/096 062/096 064/096 062/089 058/087 059/086
30/G 20/G 20/G 00/G 00/B 00/B 00/B
SHR 061/098 062/100 063/097 063/097 062/091 058/089 059/088
30/G 22/T 22/T 20/G 00/G 00/B 00/B
.BYZ...
MT...FIRE WEATHER WATCH THROUGH MIDNIGHT TONIGHT FOR FIRE WEATHER
ZONES 123 THROUGH 126.
WY...NONE.MTZ028>042-056>058-WYZ098-099-101100- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BILLINGS MT 1023 PM SAT AUG 9 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTH CENTRAL...SOUTHEAST MONTANA AND NORTH CENTRAL WYOMING. .DAY ONE... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAY TWO THROUGH SEVEN... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
Rough Draw ComplexCause: Lightning StrikeBegin Date: August 10, 2003End Date: September 5, 2003Acres Burned: 3000Structural Loss: 0
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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