1 high wind, 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 Mar 13, 9:00 PM MST, 1 hour 35 minutes earlier.
SOUTHEAST IDAHO AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO/IDAHO FALLS ID 900 PM MST TUE MAR 13 2001 SURFACE DATA INDICATES THE FRONT PASSED ONTARIO OR AT 8 PM AND SHOULD BE INTO EASTERN IDAHO AROUND MIDNIGHT OR THEREAFTER. PRECIPITATION AMOUNTS UPSTREAM HAVE GENERALLY BEEN LESS THAN .10 WITH MOST SIGNFICANT AMOUNTS EXPECTED TO STAY TO THE NORTH OF THE DIVIDE AS NEW AND PAST ETA MODEL RUN INDICATES. SYSTEM OVERALL IS A DRY ONE WITH VERY LITTLE IN THE WAY OF DEEP MOISTURE. 700 RH'S PER NEW ETA RUN REMAINS SIGNIFICANT ENOUGH ALONG THE DIVIDE...ISLAND PARK AREA AND NORTHERN PORTIONS OF THE EASTERN HIGHLANDS....TETON VALLEY. CURRENT FORECAST PACKAGE DEPICTS PRECIPITATION AMOUNTS...TIMING AND POP'S WELL. INSTABILITY WILL REMAIN AFTER THE FRONTAL PASSAGE THUS AFTERNOON SNOW SHOWERS CONTINUE TO BE A POSSIBILITY ON WEDNESDAY...ESPECIALLY OROGRAPHICALLY FAVORED AREAS TRIGGERED BY EMBEDDED SHORTWAVES WORKING ALONG THE JET. JET ORIENTATION AND DYNAMICS SEEM TO COINCIDE WITH THE PAST RUN ALTHOUGH TIMING OF THE EMBEDDED VORTICES DIFFER A BIT. BIGGEST PROBLEM TONIGHT WILL BE WHETHER TO ISSUE A WIND ADVISORY FOR UPPER PORTIONS OF THE SNAKE RIVER PLAIN. MIXING IS CERTAIN WITH CAA OVER -10C AND LAPSE RATES ABOVE 7C. NEW ETA MODEL INCREASES 700MB WINDS TO 40 TO 45KT ACROSS SNAKE VALLEY VS 30 TO 35KT PREVIOUS RUN. AVIATION MODEL SHOULD COME IN BIG AS WELL AS ETA IS KNOWN TO HAVE A FRICTIONAL BIAS. 0Z UPPER AIR ANALYSIS SHOWS 40 TO 45 KT WINDS UPSTREAM THUS 40 TO 50 MPH GUSTS ARE POSSIBLE BETWEEN 6Z TO 12Z. NEW ETA RUN ALSO INDICATES A TIGHTENING OF THE SURFACE GRADIENT ESPECIALLY ACROSS THE UPPER PORTION OF THE VALLEY AS MODELS ARE GETTING A BETTER HANDLE ON THE SURFACE LOW CURRENTLY SITUATED ACROSS SOUTHEN ALBERTA ONLY PROBLEM IN MY MIND IS THAT THE PRIMARY FRONTAL PASSAGE WILL BE AT NIGHT THUS INHIBITING SURFACE GRADIENT AFFECTS. WITH HELP OF A CASE STUDY ON NOVEMBER 4 WILL GO WITH WIND ADVISORY FOR ZONE 20 BUT LEAVE OUT ZONE 21 AND 17. STRONGEST WINDS SHOULD OCCUR AT THE MOUTHS OF THE LEMHI...PASIMERHOI AND BIG LOST RIVER VALLEYS ACROSS THE SITE TO IDAHO FALLS. BYI 38/46/26/47 120 .KSFX WSR-88D...OPERATIONAL...VCP 32. .PIH...NONE. PIH NB 036/041 018/042 027 11120
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A powerful fast moving cold front moved through southeast Idaho during the evening of March 13th. A measured wind gust of 65 mph occurred at Craters of the Moon National Monument in Butte County. No reports of damage were received.
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, March 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: 5230888.