Montana

Storm History: Sweet Grass County, Montana

502 episodes, 899 events since 1955

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Sweet Grass 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
899
Deaths
11
Injuries
3
Damage
$4.5 million
Episodes
502

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 Storm33110
High Wind25100
Hail10900
Heavy Snow6100
Flash Flood4200
Blizzard2400
Thunderstorm Wind2300$500,000
Tornado1800$30
Wildfire1200
Avalanche1093
Flood500$4.0 million
Heavy Rain500
Drought500
Winter Weather310

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 Sweet Grass County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Sweet Grass CountyEvery warning in Sweet Grass 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.