A cold front moving into an area of extreme heat, generated a line of thunderstorms with strong damaging winds.
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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.
A cold front moving into an area of extreme heat, generated a line of thunderstorms with strong damaging winds.
The Glasgow radar (KGGW), 57 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:37 UTC.
2 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
The Saco S. Montana mesonet site measured a 58 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
The Saco US-2 DOT site (MTSCO) measured a 69 mph thunderstorm wind gust.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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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 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 1190546, 1190538.