Dense Fog, Southern Rocky Mountain Front
- When
- March 2, 4:55 PM MST to 7:25 PM MST
- Where
- Southern Rocky Mountain Front forecast zone
- Reported by
- AWOS
KCII Chouteau Airport observed fog with quarter mile visibility.
Dense Fog in Montana, March 2 to 3, 2022
Moist easterly flow along and north of a stationary frontal boundary brought areas of dense fog to central and north-central MT. Visibility dropped to and below a quarter mile over this area on the evening of Wednesday March 2nd, with the fog persisting through the next morning.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 4
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 TFX wrote it up.
Moist easterly flow along and north of a stationary frontal boundary brought areas of dense fog to central and north-central MT. Visibility dropped to and below a quarter mile over this area on the evening of Wednesday March 2nd, with the fog persisting through the next morning.
Event by event
4 dense fog. Local standard time, as filed.
Dense Fog, Cascade
- When
- March 2, 7:53 PM MST to March 3, 10:42 AM MST
- Where
- Cascade forecast zone
- Reported by
- ASOS
KGTF observes fog with quarter mile visibility.
Dense Fog, Southern Lewis and Clark
- When
- March 2, 11:55 PM MST to March 3, 10:25 AM MST
- Where
- Southern Lewis and Clark forecast zone
- Reported by
- AWOS
KCII Chouteau Airport observed fog with quarter mile visibility.
Dense Fog, Southern Lewis and Clark
- When
- March 3, 7:16 AM MST to 9:53 AM MST
- Where
- Southern Lewis and Clark forecast zone
- Reported by
- ASOS
KHLN observes fog with quarter mile visibility.
What these are
- Dense Fog
- Fog reducing visibility to a quarter mile or less, filed where it caused accidents or disruption.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
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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: 1012100, 1012097, 1012101, 1012098.