Heavy Snow in Idaho, November 18 to 19, 1997

Name: Heavy Snow in Idaho, November 18 to 19, 1997
Start: 1997-11-18T18:00
End: 1997-11-19T09:00
Location: Idaho

November 18 to 19, 1997 · NWS BOI · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 heavy snow, as filed by the National Weather Service.

The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 1

Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.

Event by event

1 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.

Heavy Snow, Custer/Nw Butte/Nw Blaine

When: November 18, 6:00 PM MST to November 19, 9:00 AM MST
Where: Custer/Nw Butte/Nw Blaine forecast zone

A storm dumped 8 inches of snow at Hailey and Ketchum during the night of 11/18-11/19. Three to six inches of snow was reported throughout the central mountains of Idaho from this storm.

What these are

Heavy Snow: Snowfall reaching the local warning threshold without the other hazards of a winter storm.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Idaho in 1997 Every state in 1997 This day in weather history Warnings in Idaho, November 1997

Sources

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5619575.