Hurricane-force wind knocked out windows and electricity, topped a 40-foot spruce tree onto a visitor center and inconvenienced Black Friday shoppers in northwest Wyoming.
Winds reached 82 mph in Cody and 117 mph in Clark, an unincorporated community of 300 about 40 miles east of Yellowstone National Park.
No damage was reported in Clark, which in certain weather conditions is known to get blasted by extremely strong wind out of the nearby Absaroka Mountains.
In Cody, gusts the day after Thanksgiving toppled a 40-foot Colorado spruce onto a visitor center. Electricity cut out for a few hours in a neighborhood of about 100 homes....