A strong westerly flow aloft resulted in high winds along the Rocky Mountain Front. Wind gusts in excess of 70 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.
A strong westerly flow aloft resulted in high winds along the Rocky Mountain Front. Wind gusts in excess of 70 mph were reported.
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A wind gust to 79 mph was reported at Saint Mary 13W (the Logan Pass Visitor Center in Glacier National Park). Gusts to 80 mph were also reported.
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