4 heavy snow, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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.
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 Jun 3, 1:55 AM MST, 4 hours 5 minutes earlier.
SOUTHEAST IDAHO AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO/IDAHO FALLS ID 255 AM MDT SUN JUN 03 2001 STRONG 140KT H3 JET ON UP STREAM SIDE OF NEGATIVE TILT TROUGH SLIDING INTO OREGON AND NEVADA THIS MORNING. ABUNDANCE OF COLD AIR WITH THIS TROUGH GIVING MODELS SOME TROUBLE. MODELS HAVE HIGH LIKELY POPS...HOWEVER SOME MEASURABLE RAIN REPORTED ON WEST SIDE OF STATE THIS MORNING. OVER ALL HAVE TWO PROBLEMS FOR FORECAST. FIRST IS SHOWERS...PV LOBE MOVING INTO CENTRAL MOUNTAINS THIS MORNING SHOULD PROGRESS TO EAST SIDE OF STATE SHORTLY AFTER SUNRISE. CAN NOT RULE OUT THUNDERSTORMS BUT IF THEY DO FORM SHOULD BE LOW TOP AND MAINLY THIS MORNING SINCE CAPE AND SHEAR DECREASES THIS AFTERNOON WITH STRONG COLD ADVECTION AND INCREASING SURFACE WINDS MAY BE TOO STRONG FOR GOOD UPDRAFT DEVELOPMENT. SO WILL CONTINUE TREND OF PREVIOUS FORECAST AND KEEP LIKELY POPS ALTHOUGH PRECIPITATION SHOULD BE LIGHT. SHOWERS SHOULD TAPPER OFF BY AFTERNOON...THEN WINDS DOMINATE. SURFACE LOW DEEPENS IN WYOMING WITH STRONG WEST TO EAST GRADIENT IN THE UPPER SNAKE RIVER VALLEY. WILL ISSUE WIND ADVISORY FOR ZONES 17/20/21. WINDS SHOULD FAVOR ZONES 17 AND 21 BY LATE AFTERNOON WITH UPPER FLOW BECOMING NORTHERLY. OVERNIGHT THE PROBLEM IS WRAP AROUND MOISTURE OVER ZONES 19 AND 32 AND POSSIBLY 20 THAT LINGERS INTO MONDAY. THINK MODELS ARE OVER DOING PRECIP WITH COLD AIR BUT WILL CONTINUE TO MENTION A CHANCE OF SHOWERS JUST THE SAME. AIR IS COLD ENOUGH TO BRING SNOW LEVEL TO ABOUT 5500 FEET BY MONDAY MORNING...NO ACCUMULATION AS GROUND VERY WARM BUT COULD SEE SOME MIXED OVER HIGHER TERRAIN. IN THE EXTENDED...BLOCKING HIGH OVER CENTRAL CANADA LIMITS EASTWARD PROGRESSION OF NEXT TROUGH. SOME SHOWERS MAY DEVELOP ALONG WASHINGTON AND OREGON COAST TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY BUT FOR NOW WILL LEAVE SOUTHEAST IDAHO DRY. SURVICK BYI 60/39/64 511 .KSFX WSR-88D...OPERATIONAL...VCP 21. .PIH...WIND ADVISORY HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST IDAHO. PLEASE REFER TO BOINPWPIH FOR THE LATEST INFORMATION. PIH NB 059/040 060/043 066 08631
4 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
A late spring storm brought heavy snowfall to elevations above 6,000 feet in the central mountains. Amounts ranged from 6 inches at Federal Hill in Fremont County to 10.5 inches at Galena Summit in Custer County at an elevation of 7,441 feet. .
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, June 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: 5248175, 5248176, 5248177, 5248178.