High Wind, Eastern Lemhi County
- When
- March 13, 8:28 PM MST
- Where
- Eastern Lemhi County forecast zone
- Measured
- 55 kt (63 mph)
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
- Coordinates
- 44.943, -113.933 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High Wind in Idaho, March 13, 2001
Fast moving cold front produced strong winds near convective showers. RAWS stations Kriley Creek reported 63 MPH wind gust, and Skull Gulch reported 69 MPH wind gust.
Where it happened
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The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
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 happened
The episode as NWS MSO wrote it up.
Fast moving cold front produced strong winds near convective showers. RAWS stations Kriley Creek reported 63 MPH wind gust, and Skull Gulch reported 69 MPH wind gust.
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 Missoula, MT wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Mar 13, 2:45 PM MST, 5 hours 43 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Mar 13, 2:45 PM MST, 5 hours 43 minutes before
WESTERN MONTANA AND NORTH CENTRAL IDAHO FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MISSOULA MT 245 PM MST TUE MAR 13 2001 SHORT TERM...MAIN PROBLEM OR QUESTION OF THIS FORECAST PACKAGE IS WHAT TO ISSUE IN THE CLEARWATER MOUNTAINS. MODELS IN ALIGN WITH BRINGING BULLSEYE QPF FOR 12-24 HOURS OVER NORTH CENTRAL IDAHO WITH QPFS RANGING FROM .45 TO .80 OF AN INCH OF PCPN. THIS SHOULD BE ENOUGH TO WARRANT A SNOW ADVISORY FOR TONIGHT AND WED FOR AROUND 3-5 INCHES IN THE MOUNTAINS ABOVE 5500 FEET. MODELS CUT BACK ON 700 MB WEST WINDS TO 30 TO 45 KTS FROM 50-55KTS IN PREVIOUS RUNS. WINDS WILL STILL BE STRONG ENOUGH FOR SOME GUSTS...HENCE WILL PUT OUT A SNOW AND BLOWING SNOW ADVISORY FOR ID ZONES 5-6. CDFNT MOVES THROUGH THIS EVE AND TONIGHT OVER MONTANA...COOLING TEMPS AND BRINGING SNOW LEVELS TO VALLEY FLOOR LATE THIS EVE TOWARD MIDNIGHT. NOT MUCH IN THE WAY OF ACCUMULATION IN THE VALLEYS AS PCPN WILL BECOME MORE SHOWERY AFTER MIDNIGHT AND POST FRONTAL PASSAGE...AND WITH THE BEST DYNAMICS OVER CNTRL IDAHO. TEMPS COOL 5-10 DEGREES WED/WED NIGHT. EXTENDED...MODELS IN FAIR AGREEMENT TODAY...WITH SPLITTING SYSTEM ON FRIDAY TAKING BRUNT OF ENERGY TOWARD SOUTHERN ROCKIES. WEAK SECONDARY WAVE IN NORTHERN BRANCH SLIDES ACROSS THE AREA SATURDAY...THEN LOW AMPLITUDE RIDGE BEGINS TO BUILD OVER NORTHWEST SUNDAY. RIDGE IS FLATTENED QUICKLY BY SERIES OF PACIFIC SHORTWAVES EARLY NEXT WEEK...WITH MRF SHOWING STRONGER TROUGH ON TUESDAY. HARD TO FIND A TOTALLY DRY DAY...BUT WILL BACK OFF A LITTLE ON PRECIP CHANCES FRI THROUGH SUN. SULLIVAN
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
2 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
High Wind, Western Lemhi County
- When
- March 13, 9:09 PM MST
- Where
- Western Lemhi County forecast zone
- Measured
- 60 kt (69 mph)
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
- Coordinates
- 44.943, -113.933 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
What these are
- High Wind
- Sustained non-thunderstorm winds of 40 mph or more for an hour, or gusts of 58 mph or more.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornado and Hail in Florida, March 13, 2001
- Tornado in Florida, March 13, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Virginia, March 13, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Ohio, March 13, 2001
- High Wind in Washington, March 13, 2001
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in Maryland, March 13, 2001
- Damaging Winds in West Virginia, March 13, 2001
- Winter Weather in New York, March 13, 2001
- High Wind in Washington, March 13, 2001
- High Wind in Washington, March 13, 2001
- Winter Weather in Vermont, March 13, 2001
- High Wind in West Virginia, March 13, 2001
More
Every storm in Idaho in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Idaho, March 2001
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: 5233597, 5233598.