Heavy Snow in Helena Valley, Montana

Heavy Snow March 14, 2023 – March 15, 2023 · Helena Valley, Montana

What the National Weather Service wrote

Helena Law Enforcement reported two school bus slide offs, a semi crash that took out a fire hydrant, and multiple two-vehicle crashes. CoCoRaHS station MT-LC-14 2 NNW Helena reported 6 inches of snowfall.

The wider storm

A Pacific weather system arrived from the west and ushered in an unsettled weather pattern that persisted through mid-week. Strong wind occurred along the Rocky Mountain Front and portions of Central and Southwest Montana. Heavy snow also developed along the immediate eastern slopes of the Continental Divide and the southwestern mountains.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1084035. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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