Montana

Storm History: Musselshell County, Montana

316 episodes, 494 events since 1955

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Musselshell 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
494
Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Damage
$6.2 million
Episodes
316

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
Hail19500
Flash Flood7300$200,000
High Wind7000
Winter Storm4500
Heavy Snow3500
Tornado2600$32,000
Thunderstorm Wind1800$10,000
Flood1400$6.0 million
Blizzard800
Wildfire600
Cold/Wind Chill100
Ice Storm100
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill100
Drought100

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 Musselshell County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Musselshell CountyEvery warning in Musselshell 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.