Thunderstorm Wind, Lemhi
- When
- August 4, 4:29 PM MST
- Where
- Lemhi County, 5 mi NE of Leadore
- Measured
- 58 kt (67 mph)
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 44.733, -113.283
Damaging Wind in Idaho, August 4, 2001
Severe thunderstorm moved through eastern Lemhi County.
Where it happened
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- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
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.
What happened
The episode as NWS MSO wrote it up.
Severe thunderstorm moved through eastern Lemhi County.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Missoula, MT wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 4, 1:46 PM MST, 2 hours 43 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 4, 1:46 PM MST, 2 hours 43 minutes before
WESTERN MONTANA AND NORTH CENTRAL IDAHO FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MISSOULA MT 246 PM MDT SAT AUG 4 2001 .SHORT TERM...THUNDERSTORMS ARE DEVELOPING ACROSS THE SOUTHERN SECTIONS OF THE CWA THIS AFTERNOON. WITH SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPING IN THE SOUTHEASTERN SECTION OF THE CWA. ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE DEVELOPING ACROSS THE REST OF THE CWA. THE PACIFIC TROUGH WILL MOVE ACROSS THE AREA TONIGHT...PRODUCING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS. AFTER THE TROUGH PASSES THROUGH THE AREA LATER TONIGHT...THE RIDGE WILL BEGIN TO REBUILD WITH A WARMING AND DRYING TREND. KOLATA .EXTENDED...NO SIGNIFICANT CHANGES THROUGH DAY6 AS MEDIUM RANGE CONTINUES TO SHOW HIGHER HEIGHTS ON TUESDAY...FOLLOWED BY WESTERN CANADA TROUGH AXIS SLOWLY SINKING SOUTHWARD. HIGH PRESSURE CENTER OVER WY WILL BRING SOME MOISTURE ACROSS THE SOUTHERN ZONES BY MIDWEEK FOR A THREAT OF CONVECTION. TROUGH AXIS SLIDES ACROSS SOUTHERnN CANADA WITH WEST TO NORTHWEST FLOW ALOFT OVER THE CWA LATE IN THE WEEK. TEMPERATURES SHOULD MODERATE WITH RELATIVELY DRY WEATHER TO END THE WEEK. BOLDT .MSO...SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH UNTIL 7 PM MDT FOR MTZ007
The radar
The Pocatello radar (KSFX), 187 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:27 UTC.
Event by event
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Heat in Minnesota, August 4 to 8, 2001
- Tropical Storm in Florida, August 4 to 6, 2001
- Flash Flood in North Carolina, August 4, 2001
- Tropical Storm in Florida, August 4 to 6, 2001
- Flash Flood in Kentucky, August 4, 2001
- Flash Flood in Kentucky, August 4, 2001
- Flash Flood in Kentucky, August 4, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Pennsylvania, August 4, 2001
- Damaging Wind in New Jersey, August 4, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Oklahoma, August 4, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Arkansas, August 4, 2001
- Tropical Storm in Alabama, August 4 to 5, 2001
More
Every storm in Idaho in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Idaho, August 2001
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 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5261813.