Thunderstorm Wind, Teton
- When
- June 23, 6:40 PM MST
- Where
- Teton County, Choteau
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph) estimated gust
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 47.817, -112.183
Damaging Wind in Montana, June 23, 2004
A severe thunderstorm produced a wind gust of 60 mph at Choteau.
Where it happened
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- Wind
- Hail
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- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
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 happened
The episode as NWS TFX wrote it up.
A severe thunderstorm produced a wind gust of 60 mph at Choteau.
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 Jun 23, 1:37 PM MST, 5 hours 3 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 23, 1:37 PM MST, 5 hours 3 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREAT FALLS MONTANA
237 PM MDT WED JUN 23 2004
.DISCUSSION...
TONIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY...LITTLE CHANGE EXPECTED TO THE LONG WAVE
PATTERN THROUGH FRIDAY. A POLAR VORTEX TO THE WEST OF JAMES BAY AND
AN AMPLIFIED RIDGE ALONG THE WEST COAST WILL KEEP THE FORECAST AREA
IN A NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT. LATE IN THE PERIOD...A CLOSED LOW WILL
SLOWLY APPROACH THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST COAST. THE APPROACHING LOW WILL
PINCH OFF THE HIGHER HEIGHTS OVER BRITISH COLUMBIA...EFFECTIVELY
REDUCING THE NORTHWEST FLOW. MAIN SYNOPTIC SCALE FEATURES OF CONCERN
WILL CONTINUE TO BE ANY SHORT WAVE ENERGY IN THE FLOW AND THE
POSITION OF THE SURFACE BOUNDARY. THINK THE BOUNDARY WILL TEND TO
SAG SOUTH AND WEST WITH TIME...SO HAVE FOLLOWED THE SAME TREND WITH
THE HIGHEST POPS. MOST ORGANIZED CONVECTION WILL OCCUR THIS EVENING
OVER CENTRAL MONTANA...WITH INSTABILITY AND WIND FIELDS STILL
FAVORING ISOLATED SEVERE. THUNDERSTORMS WILL THEN BE LESS ORGANIZED
STARTING TOMORROW...AND CONTINUING INTO SATURDAY. HAVE GENERALLY KEPT
THE HIGHEST POPS DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING...MAINLY DUE TO
DIURNAL CONVECTION TRENDS. TEMPERATURES THROUGH THE PERIOD WILL BE
NEAR NORMAL. SCHAUMANN
SATURDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY...MEDIUM RANGE MODELS SHOWING GOOD
CONSISTENCY AMONGST THEMSELVES SO NO SIGNIFICANT CHANGES MADE TO
FORECAST. AREA WILL BE BETWEEN A CLOSED UPPER LOW OVER THE PACIFIC
NORTHWEST AND DEEP UPPER TROF OVER THE NORTHEAST US. RESULT WILL BE
AN UPPER RIDGE OVER MONTANA WHICH WILL PROVIDE DRY AND WARM
CONDITIONS. UPPER RIDGE AXIS WILL BEGIN TO SHIFT EAST MONDAY WITH
RESULTING FLOW ALOFT BECOMING INCREASINGLY SOUTHWEST...THEN ZONAL
TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY. NOT MUCH MOISTURE INDICATED BY MODELS AT THIS
TIME SO WILL MAINTAIN A DRY FORECAST. TEMPERATURES WILL REMAIN
SLIGHTLY ABOVE SEASONAL AVERAGES.
&&
.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
GTF BB 050/075 047/076 048 05331
BBUBU 077/049 079/049 081/049 081/050 079 21100000000
CTB BB 048/070 045/074 047 05321
BBUBU 073/048 078/048 078/048 078/049 076 11100000000
HLN BB 056/080 052/077 052 05232
BBUUU 081/053 082/054 084/054 084/055 082 2221-00000-
BZN BB 048/078 046/074 047 05232
BBBBB 077/048 077/049 079/049 079/050 077 2121--00000
WEY BB 038/071 036/066 036 05122
BBBBB 071/038 074/038 076/038 076/039 074 241200-0--0
DLN BB 049/079 047/076 048 05-22
BBUUU 079/047 079/047 081/047 081/048 079 241200-01--
HVR BB 049/072 045/076 049 05320
BBBBB 077/050 080/050 082/050 082/051 080 00000000000
LWT BB 049/069 044/070 046 05331
BBBBB 073/048 078/048 081/049 081/050 079 00000000000
&&
.TFX WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
NONE.
&&Hazardous weather outlook, Jun 23, 3:30 PM MST, 3 hours 10 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREAT FALLS MT 430 PM MDT WED JUN 23 2004 MTZ009>013-044>051-054-241130- BLAINE-CASCADE-CHOUTEAU-EASTERN GLACIER-EASTERN PONDERA- EASTERN TETON-FERGUS-HILL-JUDITH BASIN-LIBERTY-MEAGHER-NORTHERN ROCKY MOUNTAIN FRONT-SOUTHERN ROCKY MOUNTAIN FRONT-TOOLE- 430 PM MDT WED JUN 23 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR NORTH CENTRAL MONTANA .DAY ONE...TODAY ISOLATED SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE LATE THIS AFTERNOON THROUGH TONIGHT. THE PRIMARY RISK FROM ANY SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE LARGE HAIL AND GUSTY WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES. MTZ008-014-015-052-053-055-241130- BEAVERHEAD-BROADWATER-CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN LEWIS AND CLARK-GALLATIN- JEFFERSON-MADISON- 430 PM MDT WED JUN 23 2004 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHWEST MONTANA .DAY ONE...TODAY THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES.
In the hours before
Local storm report, Jun 23, 3:59 PM MST, 2 hours 41 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREAT FALLS MT
459 PM MDT WED JUN 23 2004
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0430 PM HAIL 10 W BABB 48.86N 113.66W
06/23/2004 1.50 INCH GLACIER MT PUBLIC
HAIL FELL NEAR PARK ENTRANCE TO MANY GLACIER PARK.
0455 PM HAIL ST MARY 48.74N 113.43W
06/23/2004 0.75 INCH GLACIER MT TRAINED SPOTTER
&&
BRUSDALocal storm report, Jun 23, 5:57 PM MST, 43 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREAT FALLS MT
657 PM MDT WED JUN 23 2004
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0649 PM HAIL SIMMS 47.49N 111.93W
06/23/2004 0.50 INCH CASCADE MT TRAINED SPOTTER
&&
BRUSDALocal storm report, Jun 23, 5:58 PM MST, 42 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREAT FALLS MT
658 PM MDT WED JUN 23 2004
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0645 PM HAIL SIMMS 47.49N 111.93W
06/23/2004 0.25 INCH CASCADE MT TRAINED SPOTTER
&&
BRUSDALocal storm report, Jun 23, 6:08 PM MST, 32 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREAT FALLS MT
708 PM MDT WED JUN 23 2004
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0622 PM TSTM WND GST CUT BANK 48.63N 112.33W
06/23/2004 38 MPH GLACIER MT OFFICIAL NWS OBS
&&
BRUSDALocal storm report, Jun 23, 6:14 PM MST, 26 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREAT FALLS MT
714 PM MDT WED JUN 23 2004
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0650 PM HAIL SIMMS 47.49N 111.93W
06/23/2004 0.75 INCH CASCADE MT TRAINED SPOTTER
0.40 INCHES OF PRECIP AS THE STORM MOVED THROUGH. WINDS
ESTIMATED BETWEEN 40 AND 50 MPH.
&&
BRUSDALocal storm report, Jun 23, 6:37 PM MST, 3 minutes before
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE GREAT FALLS MT
737 PM MDT WED JUN 23 2004
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION...ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0735 PM TSTM WND GST CHOTEAU 47.81N 112.18W
06/23/2004 65 MPH TETON MT TRAINED SPOTTER
&&
BRUSDAThe radar
The Great Falls radar (KTFX), 72 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:42 UTC.
Event by event
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
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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: 5407338.