Montana, 2025Winter Storm in Montana, December 18 to 19, 2025
December 18 to 19, 2025 · NWS BYZ · 1 event in 1 county or zone
The Absaroka/Beartooth Mountains experienced heavy snow up to at least a foot.
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- 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.
The Absaroka/Beartooth Mountains experienced heavy snow up to at least a foot.
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 Dec 18, 9:08 AM MST, 52 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Dec 18, 9:08 AM MST, 52 minutes before
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</html>Winter Storm, Absaroka / Beartooth Mountains
- When
- December 18, 10:00 AM MST to December 19, 11:00 AM MST
- Where
- Absaroka / Beartooth Mountains forecast zone
- Reported by
- SNOTEL
- Coordinates
- 45.550, -109.722 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
One inch of swe reported at Fisher Creek and White Mill, calculated to around a foot of snow.
- Winter Storm
- A storm that brought snow, sleet or freezing rain at warning levels, usually over several hours or days.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
- High Wind in Kansas, December 18, 20251 death · 67 kt wind · 13 events
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in Alabama, December 18, 2025$127,000 · 61 kt wind · 70 events
- High Wind in Wyoming, December 18 to 20, 2025$555,000 · 76 kt wind · 15 events
- Blizzard and High Wind in Iowa, December 18, 20257 injured · 55 kt wind · 17 events
- Damaging Winds and High Wind in Tennessee, December 18 to 19, 2025$124,000 · 68 kt wind · 13 events
- Damaging Winds in Tennessee, December 18, 2025$112,000 · 70 kt wind · 11 events
- Flooding and Heavy Rain in California, December 18 to 23, 2025$30,000 · 30 events
- Damaging Winds in Tennessee, December 18, 2025$31,000 · 58 kt wind · 23 events
- Damaging Wind in Indiana, December 18, 2025$50,000 · 52 kt wind · 1 event
- Damaging Winds in Kentucky, December 18 to 19, 20251 injured · $24,000 · 50 kt wind · 4 events
- Blizzard and High Wind in North Dakota, December 18, 20252 injured · 55 kt wind · 12 events
- High Wind and Strong Wind in New York, December 18 to 20, 202556 kt wind · 27 events
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: 1308148.