Heavy Rain in Powell County, Montana

Heavy Rain July 14, 2014 · Powell County, Montana

Where the report was made, with tornadoes recorded within 15 miles over the years.

What the National Weather Service wrote

The mesonet station EW4329 located 1 mile west-northwest of Elliston reported 0.74 of rain in one hour while the mesonet station TT234 located 7.7 miles north of Ovando reported 0.50 of heavy rain in an hour.

The wider storm

A upper level low centered over west-central Washington State at 6 am MDT on July 14 slowly moved eastward across western Montana by 6 am on July 15 and then moved east to central Montana later that evening. Due to the above normal amounts of atmospheric moisture with origins from the sub-tropics, the thunderstorms produced very heavy rainfall in a short amount of time.

Began near Ovando (47.1300, -113.1500).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 530676. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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