Montana

Storm History: Carbon County, Montana

475 episodes, 736 events since 1957

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Carbon County, Montana: floods, hail, damaging wind, tornadoes, winter storms, heat and the rest, with the most serious on record. Events filed by forecast zone count for every county the zone covers.

The record

Events
736
Deaths
14
Injuries
6
Damage
$2.2 million
Episodes
475

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.

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Every year

From 1996 the record holds 48 kinds of event with each office’s narrative; before that, tornadoes, hail and thunderstorm wind only, and before 1955 tornadoes alone.

By kind of event

Counted under the kind that heads each episode.

Kind of eventEventsDeathsInjuriesDamage
Winter Storm33010
Hail11500
Heavy Snow9700
High Wind6200
Flash Flood3200
Thunderstorm Wind2000$51,000
Blizzard1900
Tornado1300$14,000
Flood1010$1.6 million
Wildfire1011$525,000
Avalanche993
Heavy Rain700
Drought600
Winter Weather512
Lightning110

The deadliest

The costliest

Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.

The largest hail

The largest stone in each episode, which may have fallen in a neighboring county of the same episode.

The strongest tornadoes

Every tornado in Carbon County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Carbon CountyEvery warning in Carbon County since 1986Every county in Montana

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 2026-09-24.