1 wildfire, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 Aug 19, 9:05 AM MST, 1 hour 55 minutes earlier.
SOUTHEAST IDAHO AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO/IDAHO FALLS ID 1005 AM MDT MON AUG 19 2002 DRY FORECAST THROUGH TONIGHT THEN MODELS BRING IN WEAK INSTABILITY ACROSS THE CENTRAL MOUNTAINS WITH SLIGHT CHC OF SHOWERS ON TUE BUT MOISTURE DEPTH WILL BE THIN. BETTER CHANCE FOR WED AS PER PREVIOUS AFD/ZFP. BREEZY FORECAST ON WED IS ON TRACK. TA .KSFX...OPERATIONAL...VCP 32. BYI 86/50/81 000 .PIH...NONE. PIH BB 085/042 082/045 082 11000
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
A wildfire near Hailey burned more than 1,600 acres. Forced evacuation of 18 campers and threatened Woodside area east of Hailey...but no homes were damaged.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Idaho in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Idaho, August 2002
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: 5314224.