Drought ended during November as a snowier than average October allowed conditions to improve.
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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 GGW wrote it up.
Drought ended during November as a snowier than average October allowed conditions to improve.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
4 drought. Local standard time, as filed.
Ongoing drought conditions, D2-Severe, continued over the southeastern third of Northern Phillips County, before improving to D1-Moderate by the second week of November.
Ongoing drought conditions, D2-Severe, continued across the southwestern one quarter of Northern Valley County, which improved to D1-Moderate by the second week of November.
To start November, ongoing drought conditions, D2-Severe, continued across the|northeastern half of the county. By the second week of November, this area improved to D1-Moderate drought, while the southwestern third of the county remained in D0-Abnormally Dry conditions.
To start November, the northwestern two thirds of Central and Southern Valley County|remained in D2-Severe drought. During the first week of November, the west central part of Central and Southern Valley County improved to D1-Moderate, while the northwestern quarter remained in D2-Severe. On the second week, the northwestern three quarters of Central and Southern Valley County improved to D1-Moderate drought.
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, November 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: 1143451, 1143452, 1143453, 1143455.