Special Weather Statement issued October 17 at 1:00PM MDT by NWS Great Falls MT
Official severe-weather alerts, warning areas, and disaster updates.
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Gusty to locally strong winds will continue through the rest of the evening across the Northern Plains with gusts up to 50 mph possible. Localized reductions in visibility as a result of blowing dust are possible. Slow down and be prepared for rapid changes in visibility along area roads.
- Event time
- Source last updated
- Current version retrieved
- Provider
- NWS — active weather alerts (Storm)
- Location
- MT, US
- Severity
- Moderate
- area
- Hill County; Northern Blaine County; Eastern Pondera and Eastern Teton; Western and Central Chouteau County; Bears Paw Mountains and Southern Blaine; Cascade County below 5000ft
- event
- Special Weather Statement
- onset
- 2026-10-17T13:00:00-06:00
- states
- ["MT"]
- urgency
- Expected
- certainty
- Observed
- effective
- 2026-10-17T13:00:00-06:00
- message id
- urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.1fb35e7da526eea0fae8ebead8452d398ebe90df.001.1
- references
- []
- message type
- Alert
- location basis
- Approximate: centers of the NWS zones listed in the alert
- freshness minutes
- 60
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