A potent 500 mb trough kicked a cold front across the region. Two wind gusts reached high wind criteria in eastern Glacier County.
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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 potent 500 mb trough kicked a cold front across the region. Two wind gusts reached high wind criteria in eastern Glacier County. Otherwise, no gusts exceeded high wind criteria across the region.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
An Ambient weather sensor at LJ Johnson farms measured a 78 mph gust.
Asos station KCTB Cut Bank Airport measured a 59 mph gust.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Montana in 2023Every state in 2023This day in weather historyWarnings in Montana, April 2023
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: 1093946, 1093947.