A Pacific storm system brought heavy snow to portions of southwest Montana. Snowfall amounts in excess of 6 inches was 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.
A Pacific storm system brought heavy snow to portions of southwest Montana. Snowfall amounts in excess of 6 inches was reported.
2 winter storm. Local standard time, as filed.
Eight inches of snow fell at Lima 22SW (the Beagle Springs SNOTEL site -elevation 8850 feet). Eighteen inhes of snow was also reported at Grant 5SE and eight inches fell at Grant 18SW (the Lemhi Ridge SNOTEL site - elevation 8100 feet). Seven inches of snow fell at Ploaris 8ENE (the Mule Creek SNOTEL site - elevation 8300 feet).
Eleven inches of snow fell at Pony 6W (the Albro Lake SNOTEL site - elevation 8300 feet). Eleven inches was also reported at Cameron 15SW (the Clover Meadow SNOTEL site - elevation 8600 feet).
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Montana in 2009Every state in 2009This day in weather historyWarnings in Montana, March 2009
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: 158037, 158036.