Montana

Storm History: Lewis and Clark County, Montana

338 episodes, 670 events since 1953

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Lewis and Clark 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
670
Deaths
0
Injuries
14
Damage
$6.9 million
Episodes
338

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
High Wind16600
Hail11703$2,000
Thunderstorm Wind8500$21,000
Winter Storm5500
Heavy Snow5400
Tornado3800$7,000
Flash Flood3800$775,000
Blizzard3300$1.0 million
Flood2900$100,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill2800
Wildfire1904$5.0 million
Lightning207
Winter Weather200
Funnel Cloud100
Dust Devil100$1,000
Heavy Rain100
Ice Storm100

The deadliest

None recorded.

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 Lewis and Clark County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Lewis and Clark CountyEvery warning in Lewis and Clark 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.