Tornado destroys MetraPark arena, Heights stores! BILLINGS, MONTANA

[Rare Feathers Farm]

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Actually yes. To be honest, they generally have more tornadoes in the flat eastern part of the state than elsewhere in the state, but billings can (obviously) and does get them as well. I grew up in Glendive, MT which is 30 minutes from the Montana/North Dakota border and about 3 hours east of Billings and we had tornadoes every summer. In fact, one year my grandmother watched a tornado go between her apartment building and the next one (and she watched this from her apartment, which was on the second level!)

so yeah, Montana can definitly have tornadoes!

Personally, I figure its because you've got all the rockies to the west and the south west, and the plains area to the east, and it creates a nice area for tornadoes to breed because you generally have differing weather systems colliding right in that area pretty much all summer

Interesting! I lived there for 4.5 years and we never had a tornado. I do remember once being somewhere near Great Falls or Big Fork and hearing a tornado warning from the workers in the Dairy Queen we were in...but that was when I was in elementary school....

 

[herfrds]

There was a tornado that passed over Billings when I was kid years ago. It didn't touch down.
I remember when they built the Metra

The tornado was 2-3 miles from my grandmothers place.
She says there is alot of limbs and leaves on the ground and there is a hole in her rain gutter from a piece of hail.

Roundup is 50 miles north of Billings. Was there one year during an electrical storm. Motel I was in was hit by lighting.

 

[enola]

My son had hail damage to his car, some dents and 2 broken windows. But, he and the baby (and the cat) are fine. Thank God, praying for all the people that were not so lucky.....