Idaho, 2001Flash Flood in Idaho, July 6, 2001
July 6, 2001 · NWS PIH · 1 event in 1 county or zone
1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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- 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 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 Pocatello, ID wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 6, 1:55 PM MST, 4 hours 5 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 6, 1:55 PM MST, 4 hours 5 minutes before
SOUTHEAST IDAHO AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO/IDAHO FALLS ID
255 PM MDT FRI JUL 06 2001
MONSOON MOISTURE CONTINUES ACROSS FCST/A...
CURRENT RADAR LOOP SHOWING SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS
DEVELOPING ACROSS MUCH OF SE ID THIS AFTN. STRONGEST ACTIVITY IS
LOCATED SW OF FCST/A... SO EXPECT MUCH OF FCST/A TO SEE SCATTERED
SHOWERS/TSTMS THIS EVENING. ACTIVITY THIS EVENING NOT EXPECTED TO BE
SEVERE AND SHOULD BE QUICK PULSE TSTMS PRODUCING LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN.
ANOTHER ROUND OF ACTIVITY WILL DEVELOP SATURDAY AFTN AS NEXT S/WV
SLIDES NORTH ACROSS REGION. TEMPS FOR SATURDAY A QUESTION MARK. MAV
GUIDANCE ABOUT 13 DEG COOLER THAN THE FWC. CURRENT THINKING IS THAT WE
WILL SEE MUCH MORE CLOUD COVER (THE LARGE CLOUD MASS OVER S NV ATTM)
SO EXPECTING TEMPS COOLER BUT ABOVE THE AVN GUIDANCE. ANOTHER S/WV IS
FCST TO SLIDE NORTH ACROSS W ID ON SUNDAY SO HAVE INCREASED POPS (40
POPS) ACROSS W ID SUN AFTN.
NO CHANGES TO THE EXTENDED FCST...MONSOON MOISTURE WILL CONTINUE OVER
AREA WITH SEASONABLE TEMPS. SO AFTN/EVE TSTMS EACH DAY.
WINTHER
BYI 59/84/58/88 343
.KSFX WSR-88D...OPERATIONAL...VCP 21.
PIH BB 057/085 055/088c 054 06343
.PIH...NONE.
Flash Flood, Power
- When
- July 6, 6:00 PM MST to 7:00 PM MST
- Where
- Power County, Rockland
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 42.694, -112.841 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
One inch of rain in 45 minutes caused the rock Creek to flood. No reports of damage were received.
- Flash Flood
- Flooding that begins within six hours of the rain that causes it, or of a dam or levee failure or ice jam release, often with deadly speed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
- Tornadoes in South Carolina, July 6, 200139 injured · $8.8 million · F2 · 2 events
- Heat in Missouri, July 6 to 8, 20012 deaths · 37 events
- Lightning Strike in California, July 6, 20011 injured · $840,000 · 1 event
- Flash Flood in California, July 6, 2001$1.2 million · 1 event
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, July 6, 2001$250,000 · 65 kt wind · 1 event
- Damaging Wind in California, July 6, 2001$200,000 · 60 kt wind · 1 event
- Damaging Wind in Florida, July 6, 2001$150,000 · 1 event
- Lightning Strike in California, July 6, 2001$25,000 · 1 event
- Flood in California, July 6, 2001$25,000 · 1 event
- Flood in California, July 6, 2001$20,000 · 1 event
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, July 6, 2001$20,000 · 60 kt wind · 1 event
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Mississippi, July 6, 2001$15,000 · 0.75 in hail · 2 events
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: 5257822.