Low surface pressure moving across southern Alberta contributed to strong winds along the Northern Rocky Mountain Front. Wind gusts to 58 mph were reported.
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 episode as NWS TFX wrote it up.
Low surface pressure moving across southern Alberta contributed to strong winds along the Northern Rocky Mountain Front. Wind gusts to 58 mph were reported.
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A wind gust to 58 mph was reported at the Two Medicine DOT site.
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