Winter Weather — Little Belt and Highwood Mountains, Montana

2025-04-12 to 2025-04-13 · Little Belt and Highwood Mountains, Montana

Event narrative

Snotel equipment at Onion Park estimated 9 inches new snow. This was an isolated instance of snow of 9 inches.

Wider weather episode

Surface low pressure diving southeastward across North-central Montana and Central Montana resulted in strong wrap around northwesterly winds across the eastern plains April 13. The strongest gusts were across Toole co and vicinity as well as in Fergus co.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1257909. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.