Heavy Snow in Big Horn, Montana

Heavy Snow April 9, 2001 · Big Horn, Montana

$1.2M

Damage as recorded

What the National Weather Service wrote

Heavy, wet snow with 4 to 5 foot drifts in the Decker and Kirby area along highway 314.

The wider storm

An early spring snowstorm blasted parts of South Central and Southeast Montana on April 8th and April 9th. Southern Big Horn County was the hardest hit. An estimated 600 power poles were knocked down from heavy, wet snow, ice, and wind. Thousands of people were without power for up to 7 days. The hardest hit area was along Route 314 in the Kirby/Decker area...as well as...in the western end of the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5239388. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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