Surface low pressure moving across southern Canada contributed to strong winds developing along the Rocky Mountain Front. Wind gusts in excess of 60 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.
Surface low pressure moving across southern Canada contributed to strong winds developing along the Rocky Mountain Front. Wind gusts in excess of 60 mph were reported.
2 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A wind gust to 80 mph was reported at Bynum 13W. Also, a gust to 66 mph was reported at Dupuyer 9WSW.
A wind gust to 70 mph was reported at Browning 6WNW. Also, a gust to 72 mph was reported at Heart Butte.
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