Name: Hail in Idaho, May 11, 2005
Start: 2005-05-11T13:45
End: 2005-05-11T13:53
Location: Idaho

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 May 11, 1:45 AM MST, 12 hours earlier.

Area forecast discussion, May 11, 1:45 AM MST, 12 hours before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO IDAHO
245 AM MDT WED MAY 11 2005

.DISCUSSION...TODAY THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT...LATEST WATER VAPOR
IMAGERY SHOWS THE CLOSED UPPER LEVEL LOW OVER SALT LAKE CITY THIS
MORNING WITH WRAP AROUND/EASTERLY FLOW BRINGING IN WIDESPREAD LIGHT
TO MODERATE RAIN FROM WY INTO EASTERN IDAHO.  ETA 12 MODEL OF CHOICE
WITH THE REST OF THE MODEL SUITE ALL IN GOOD AGREEMENT IN SLOWLY
MOVING THIS LOW NE TODAY AND INTO SW WYOMING BY 00Z THU.  700MB LOW
CIRCULATION SITS OVER THE SNAKE PLAIN THROUGHOUT THE DAY.  CURRENT
MSAS HAS A SFC TROUGH EXTENDING FROM AFTON WY NW TO IDAHO FALLS.
THIS SHOWS UP WELL IN THE WIND FIELD WITH NE WINDS IN IDAHO FALLS
AND SW WINDS IN POKY.  THIS SFC TROUGH/CONVERGENCE AREA WILL WOBBLE
AND VERY SLOWLY SAG SOUTH THROUGH TONIGHT BEFORE IT WASHES OUT ON
THURSDAY.  THIS COMBINED WITH THE MID AND UPPER AIR PATTERN WILL
RESULT IN JUST A VERY WET/COOL DAY.  PRECIP WILL BECOME SCATTERED
LATER TONIGHT WITH ONE LAST ROUND OF SHOWERS COMING IN THURSDAY
AFT/EVE ON THE BACK SIDE OF THE UPPER LOW...WHICH FAVORS THE SNAKE
PLAIN AND EASTERN HIGHLANDS.  ALL PRECIP ENDS THURSDAY NIGHT AS A
500MB RIDGE APPROACHES FROM THE WEST AND THE UPPER LOW DEPARTS.
FRIDAY WILL SEE PLENTY OF SUNSHINE WITH MUCH WARMER TEMPS...JUST
ABOUT SEASONAL FOR THIS TIME OF YEAR WITH HIGHS IN THE MID TO UPPER
60S.  DRY WEATHER CONTINUES INTO FRIDAY NIGHT.  SIMOSKO

IN THE EXTENDED FOR SATURDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY...ECMWF/GFSLR/UKMET
SHOW TRANSIENT UPPER RIDGE OVER AREA SATURDAY FOR WARM AND DRY
CONDITIONS. NEXT PACIFIC TROUGH EXPECTED TO BREAK INLAND SOMETIME
SUNDAY WITH AN ACTIVE WEST FLOW PERSISTING THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF
THE FORECAST PERIOD (WEDNESDAY) AND A CONTINUATION OF CHANCE POPS
AND SEASONABLE TEMPERATURES. HUSTON

&&

.PIH WATCHES/WARNING/ADVISORIES...NONE.
&&

WEATHER INFORMATION ON-LINE 24-HOURS A DAY
(ALL LOWER-CASE LETTERS)

WWW.WEATHER.GOV/POCATELLO

Hazardous weather outlook, May 11, 4:00 AM MST, 9 hours 45 minutes before

HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO ID
500 AM MDT WED MAY 11 2005

IDZ017>025-031-032-121200-
EASTERN MAGIC VALLEY-SAWTOOTH MOUNTAINS-
UPPER SNAKE HIGHLANDS-UPPER SNAKE RIVER PLAIN-
LOWER SNAKE RIVER PLAIN-SOUTH CENTRAL HIGHLANDS-
CARIBOU HIGHLANDS-CACHE VALLEY/IDAHO PORTION-
WASATCH MOUNTAINS/IDAHO PORTION-
BIG AND LITTLE WOOD RIVER REGION-LOST RIVER/PAHSIMEROI-
500 AM MDT WED MAY 11 2005

THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN IDAHO

.DAY ONE...
NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

.DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...
NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.

SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...
WE ASK ALL TRAINED SPOTTERS TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS.
THIS WOULD INCLUDE ALL HAIL...WIND...AND HEAVY RAIN AND SNOW
REPORTS.  THIS INFORMATION SHOULD BE CALLED INTO THE LOCAL NATIONAL
WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN POCATELLO USING THE 1-800 SEVERE WEATHER
HOTLINE...OR OTHER STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES.

WEATHER INFORMATION ON-LINE 24-HOURS A DAY
(ALL LOWER-CASE LETTERS)

WWW.WEATHER.GOV/POCATELLO

In the hours before

Local storm report, May 11, 12:19 PM MST, 1 hour 26 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO/IDAHO FALLS ID
119 PM MDT WED MAY 11 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0118 PM     HAIL             3 NE BLACKFOOT          43.22N 112.30W
05/11/2005  0.75 INCH        BINGHAM            ID   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

PANGEL

Local storm report, May 11, 12:32 PM MST, 1 hour 13 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO/IDAHO FALLS ID
132 PM MDT WED MAY 11 2005

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0131 PM     HAIL             MORELAND                43.22N 112.45W
05/11/2005  0.75 INCH        BINGHAM            ID   TRAINED SPOTTER

&&

PANGEL

The radar

The Pocatello radar (KSFX), 23 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:46 UTC.

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Event by event

1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.

Hail, Bingham

When: May 11, 1:45 PM MST to 1:53 PM MST
Where: Bingham County, Moreland
Measured: 1 in hail
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER
Coordinates: 43.217, -112.450

What these are

Hail: Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.

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The same day elsewhere

More

Every storm in Idaho in 2005 Every state in 2005 This day in weather history Warnings in Idaho, May 2005

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: 5456499.