Tornadoes · United States · Montana
1956 tornadoes in Montana
No tornado was recorded in Montana in 1956. The state averages 6.3 a year over the 70 years it has any in the record.
What Montana usually sees
The record has 444 tornadoes in Montana since 1950, 4 deaths. Every year in Montana.
Nearby
Every tornado in Montana since 1950Warnings in force in MontanaThe live radar over Montana
What this means
Ratings are the survey's, read off the damage rather than measured; the rating scale is above. Tornado counts rise through the record as reporting improved, so a year in the 1950s is not comparable with one today except for the strongest tornadoes, which were always noticed.
Sources
NOAA Storm Prediction Center tornado database, 1950-2025, the official record kept by NOAA's Storm Prediction Center.