Snowfall over Central Montana was mostly advisory level but also had a few locations with warning criteria. Impacts from the event included numerous vehicles sliding off roads throughout the area.
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.
Snowfall over Central Montana was mostly advisory level but also had a few locations with warning criteria. Impacts from the event included numerous vehicles sliding off roads throughout the area.
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Great Falls, MT wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Feb 9, 2:42 PM MST, 1 hour 48 minutes earlier.
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Heavy snow of 12 inches in 14 hours was reported at Great Divide Ski area 1 mile WNW of Marysville, MT. Elevation 7000 ft.
Heavy snow of 8 inches in 12 hours was reported at Showdown Ski area 7 miles SSE of Neihart, MT. Elevation 7300 ft.
Heavy snow of 9 inches in 12 hours was reported at Lick Creek SNOTEL 13 miles ESE of Gallatin Gateway, MT. Elevation 6860 ft.
Heavy snow of 13 inches in 12 hours was reported at Shower Falls SNOTEL 18 miles SE of Gallatin Gateway, MT. Elevation 8100 ft.
Heavy snow of 11 inches in 12 hours was reported at Tizer Basin SNOTEL 10 miles SE of Clancy, MT. Elevation 6840 ft.
Heavy snow of 9 inches in 12 hours was reported at Rocker Peak SNOTEL. Elevation 8000 ft.
Heavy snow of 9 inches in 12 hours was reported at Lower Twin SNOTEL 10 miles WNW of McAllister, MT. Elevation 7900 ft.
Heavy snow of 11 inches in 12 hours was reported at Onion Park SNOTEL 6 miles WSW of Neihart, MT. Elevation 7410 ft.
Heavy snow of 9 inches in 12 hours was reported at Stringer Creek SNOTEL 8 miles W of Neihart, MT. Elevation 7410 ft.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Montana in 2013Every state in 2013This day in weather historyWarnings in Montana, February 2013
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: 437538, 437537, 437539, 437540, 437542, 437543, 437544, 437541, 437545.