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Tornado in Phillips County, Montana

Tornado May 16, 2024 · Phillips County, Montana

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Not rated

0.5 mi

Path length

20 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 20 yards (0.01 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

Not rated. NOAA lists no rating for this tornado. Ratings come from surveying damage, and the National Weather Service now records “EFU” (unknown) when a tornado hit nothing a survey team could rate.

What the National Weather Service wrote

The public sent a video of a short lived landspout tornado. Path dimensions and times are estimated.

The wider storm

A disturbance generated a few afternoon and evening strong to severe thunderstorms.

One storm produced a brief landspout tornado, another produced a funnel cloud.

Began near Whitewater (48.9400, -107.3500).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1171030. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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