24 hour snowfall totals from winter storm that impacted the Clearwater Mountains were: In Clearwater County, Cool Creek 15 inches, Hemlock Butte 16 inches, and Elk Butte 12 inches; in Idaho County, Mountain Meadows 8 inches, and Savage Pass 15 inches.
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The episode as NWS MSO wrote it up.
24 hour snowfall totals from winter storm that impacted the Clearwater Mountains were: In Clearwater County, Cool Creek 15 inches, Hemlock Butte 16 inches, and Elk Butte 12 inches; in Idaho County, Mountain Meadows 8 inches, and Savage Pass 15 inches.
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 Feb 4, 2:50 AM MST, 3 hours 10 minutes earlier.
WESTERN MONTANA AND NORTH CENTRAL IDAHO FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MISSOULA MT 250 AM MST SUN FEB 4 2001 WINTER STORM WARNING ABOVE 5000 FEET TODAY AND TONIGHT ID ZONES 5-6-8 AND MT ZONES 1-2-4-6-43. WINTER STORM WATCH MT ZONE 7 THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. POTENT SYSTEM APPROACHING PAC NW COAST THIS MORNING WITH PRECIP INTO EAST WA/OR...CLOSE TO MESO ETA TIMING. WILL SEE PRECIP SPREAD INTO NC ID NEXT FEW HOURS...WEST MT MID TO LATE MORNING. SYSTEM TAPPING GOOD MOISTURE SOURCE OFF UPPER LOW NEAR 30N/150W WITH PRECIP H20 VALUES NEAR 1 INCH OFFSHORE. MODEL QPF FORECASTS CONTINUE TO SUPPORT WARNING AMOUNTS FOR HIGHER ELEVATIONS THROUGH TONIGHT. VALLEY PRECIP IN THE FORM OF RAIN FOR NC ID VALLEYS WHERE TEMPS CURRENTLY IN LOW/ MID 30S...MT VALLEYS DIFFERENT STORY AS CLEAR SKIES OVERNIGHT ALLOWED TEMPS TO DROP INTO TEENS/20S. EXPECT TO START AS SNOW THEN MIX FAIRLY QUICK WITH STRONG WINDS ALOFT AND SHALLOW INVERSIONS WHICH HAVE NOT HAD MUCH TIME TO ESTABLISH. BUT...STRONG WESTERLY FLOW TODAY WILL PROVIDE DOWNSLOPE EFFECT FOR VALLEYS AND KEEP SIGNIFICANT PRECIP AMOUNTS IN CHECK. WILL HAVE TO WATCH FOR POSSIBILITY OF BRIEF PERIOD OF FZRA DEPENDING ON HOW SOON MIXING OCCURS. MAIN SHORTWAVE AND JET SAG ACROSS FORECAST AREA TONIGHT TO KEEP PRECIP GOING. THIS ALSO PROVIDES BEST SHOT FOR SOUTHWEST MT ZONES...BUT AT THIS TIME NOT CONFIDENT IN WARNING AMOUNTS. 120KT JET CORE AND 700 MB WINDS OF 50-60 KTS TONIGHT FOR STRONG WINDS IN THE HIGHER ELEVATIONS. COLD ADVECTION WILL TRANSITION PRECIP BACK INTO SNOW FOR ALL EXCEPT VERY LOWEST ELEVATIONS OVERNIGHT. SNOW SHOWERS CONTINUE MONDAY UNDER CYCLONIC NORTHWEST FLOW WITH ANOTHER SHORTWAVE ROTATING THROUGH. EXTENDED...PREDOMINATE FEATURE MOST OF THE WEEK WILL BE NORTH NORTHWEST FLOW...WITH MAIN IMPACT BEING COLDER TEMPS. MODELS BRING SERIES OF SHORTWAVES THROUGH WITH NEW MRF BRINGING MORE SIGNIFICANT WAVE TOWARD THE AREA +AT END OF PERIOD. NO SIGNIFICANT CHANGES. SULLIVAN
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Idaho in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Idaho, February 2001
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: 5230143, 5230144.