High Wind in Montana, November 26, 2017

Name: High Wind in Montana, November 26, 2017
Start: 2017-11-26T19:15
End: 2017-11-26T20:30
Location: Montana

November 26, 2017 · NWS BYZ · 1 event in 1 county or zone

Tight pressure gradients across the area resulted in very high wind gusts.

The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 1

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.

What happened

The episode as NWS BYZ wrote it up.

Tight pressure gradients across the area resulted in very high wind gusts.

What forecasters said that day

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 Billings, MT wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Nov 26, 2:53 PM MST, 4 hours 22 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 26, 2:53 PM MST, 4 hours 22 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Nov 26, 9:28 AM MST, 9 hours 47 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Nov 26, 5:10 PM MST, 2 hours 5 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BILLINGS MT
510 PM MST SUN NOV 26 2017

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1000 AM     NON-TSTM WND GST 2 WSW LIVINGSTON        45.65N 110.60W
11/26/2017  M55.00  MPH      PARK               MT   DEPT OF HIGHWAYS

1007 AM     NON-TSTM WND GST 12 SE EMIGRANT          45.27N 110.54W
11/26/2017  M52.00  MPH      PARK               MT   MESONET

1014 AM     NON-TSTM WND GST 3 WSW NYE               45.41N 109.87W
11/26/2017  M51.00  MPH      STILLWATER         MT   MESONET

0212 PM     NON-TSTM WND GST 17 NE WILSALL           46.16N 110.38W
11/26/2017  M51.00  MPH      PARK               MT   MESONET

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TRC

Event by event

1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.

High Wind, Southern Wheatland

When: November 26, 7:15 PM MST to 8:30 PM MST
Where: Southern Wheatland forecast zone
Measured: 68 kt (78 mph) measured gust
Reported by: AWOS

Wind gusts ranged from 64 to 78 mph across the area.

What these are

High Wind: Sustained non-thunderstorm winds of 40 mph or more for an hour, or gusts of 58 mph or more.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Montana in 2017 Every state in 2017 This day in weather history Warnings in Montana, November 2017

Sources

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: 723514.