Idaho, 2001

Flash 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.

Where it happened

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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 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.

The radar

The Pocatello radar (KSFX), 47 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:00 UTC.

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Event by event

1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.

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.

What these are

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.

The same day elsewhere

More

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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: 5257822.