Toston Residents Receive Emergency Alert For Tornado
Author: mt43news staff reporter
Toston Residents Receive Emergency Alert for Tornado
MT43 News Staff Reporter
Toston resident Jerry Norsby said he received an emergency alert on his cellphone about a possible tornado a week ago. “I never get alerts on my phone, but here it was – tornado touchdown warning for 19 miles NE of Toston. I sure didn’t understand why we would get warnings for the Grassy Mountain area on the way to White Sulphur Springs, but there it was on my phone. I never did see anything,” he said.
Curtis Grevenitz, chief meteorologist for KTVH television in Helena, said the alert was right on. In his evening report this week, he had received a photo of a tornado near Sandhill Lane. The tornado was clocked at somewhere between EF0 and EF1 with winds between 65 and 85 mph. “The photo shows the funnel. Had it touched down, it could have done damage,” he explained.
East Helena had two more sightings on State Highway 518 between East Helena and Montana City.
Grevenitz continued that while Montana has tornado sightings, there are hardly any injuries to people or property because they happen in such open areas. Since 1950, Helena has had 3 tornado sightings, and this year, two more were photographed.
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Image 1 Caption: Sighting of the tornado looking out toward Sandhill
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