Dense Smoke, Southern Lewis and Clark
- When
- September 5, 5:00 PM MST
- Where
- Southern Lewis and Clark forecast zone
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
Dense Smoke in Montana, September 5, 2006
Dense smoke from forest fires in Idaho and Washington continued to plague the Helena Valley on the 5th. The Montana Department of Environmental Quality issued several advisories and rated Helena's air quality as "unhealthy for sensitive groups'.
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.
Dense smoke from forest fires in Idaho and Washington continued to plague the Helena Valley on the 5th. The Montana Department of Environmental Quality issued several advisories and rated Helena's air quality as "unhealthy for sensitive groups'. Schools in Helena canceled outdoor recesses and football and cross country teams curtailed practices. Air quality was also listed as poor at Missoula, Livingston, Bozeman, Darby and Mill Creek.
Event by event
1 dense smoke. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Dense Smoke
- Smoke reducing visibility to a quarter mile or less.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
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- Coastal Flood in New Jersey, September 5 to 6, 2006
- Drought in Minnesota, September 5 to 30, 2006
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- Flood in New Jersey, September 5, 2006
- Flash Flood in Virginia, September 5, 2006
- Flash Flood in North Carolina, September 5, 2006
More
Every storm in Montana in 2006Every state in 2006This day in weather historyWarnings in Montana, September 2006
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: 5528079.