1 lightning, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
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 May 29, 1:40 PM MST, 2 hours 20 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO IDAHO 240 PM MDT SUN MAY 29 2005 .DISCUSSION...LATEST RADAR LOOP SHOWING AN ARC OF STRONG THUNDERSTORMS FORMING JUST WEST OF FCST/A CLOSE TO MID LEVEL LOW. STORMS ARE MOVING VERY SLOWLY SO MAIN THREAT WILL BE HAIL/LOCALLY HEAVY RAIN AS THEY SLOWLY TRACK INTO OUR WESTERN ZONES LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. LATEST NAM MODEL TRACKS 7H LOW EAST ALONG UT/ID BORDER TONIGHT. 7H LOW SHOULD BE POSITIONED ACROSS SE CORNER OF ID BY 12Z MON. LATEST NAM KEEPS A BAND OF PRECIP ACROSS SE ZONES MOST OF TONIGHT AS THERMAL GRADIENT ALONG SFC COLD FRONT INCREASES. THUS HAVE KEPT A MENTION OF POPS MOST AREAS (HIGHEST POPS SE ZONES). BY LATE MONDAY UPPER LOW ACROSS MT WILL TAKE OVER AND KEEP ID IN COOL NW FLOW. LAPSE RATES WILL BE STEEP ON MONDAY GIVEN PROXIMITY OF COLD UPPER LOW. NAM MODEL DEVELOPS CONVECTION ACROSS THE AREA MONDAY AFTERNOON IN NW FLOW AND THIS SEEMS REASONABLE (GFS DRY). MONDAY NIGHT SHOULD BE MAINLY DRY WITH CLEARING. THIS WILL BE SHORT LIVED AS YET ANOTHER 5H TROF (POSITIVE TILT) APPROACHES AREA. THIS TROF WILL SPREAD PRECIP INTO THE CENTRAL MTNS TUESDAY NIGHT AND THEN ACROSS REMAINDER OF AREA ON WEDNESDAY. SFC COLD FRONT APPEARS TO TRACK ACROSS AREA EARLY WED. THIS WILL BE A RATHER COLD TROF WITH SEVERAL REINFORCING SHOTS. UPPER TROF SHOULD BE FAR ENOUGH SOUTH TO KEEP DIURNAL SHOWERS ACROSS AREA THROUGH FRIDAY. COLDEST AIR SHOULD ARRIVE LATE FRIDAY AS ONE FINAL SPOKE OF ENERGY ROUNDS DEEP TROF. PER GFS... TROF SHOULD MOVE EAST OF FORECAST AREA BY SAT AFTN. LOOKS LIKE A DRY AND MILD WEEKEND BUT LOW CONFIDENCE IN FORECAST ATTM. WINTHER && .AVIATION...SCATTERED AFTERNOON AND EVENING CONVECTION TODAY WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS AND SMALL HAIL. && .PIH WATCHES/WARNING/ADVISORIES...NONE. && WEATHER INFORMATION ON-LINE 24-HOURS A DAY (ALL LOWER-CASE LETTERS) WWW.WEATHER.GOV/POCATELLO
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO ID 525 AM MDT SUN MAY 29 2005 IDZ017>025-031-032-301200- LOST RIVER/PASHIMEROI-CACHE VALLEY/IDAHO PORTION- SOUTH CENTRAL HIGHLANDS-WASATCH MOUNTAINS/IDAHO PORTION- LOWER SNAKE RIVER PLAIN-SAWTOOTH MOUNTAINS-EASTERN MAGIC VALLEY- BIG AND LITTLE WOOD RIVER REGION-UPPER SNAKE RIVER PLAIN- CARIBOU HIGHLANDS-UPPER SNAKE HIGHLANDS- 525 AM MDT SUN MAY 29 2005 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN IDAHO .DAY ONE... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP OVER MOST OF SOUTHEAST IDAHO THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. THESE STORMS ARE EXPECTED TO PRODUCE BRIEF HEAVY DOWNPOURS...SMALL HAIL AND WIND GUSTS TO 30 TO 40 MPH. .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. DSH
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO/IDAHO FALLS ID
407 PM MDT SUN MAY 29 2005
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0355 PM HAIL SUBLETT 42.32N 113.13W
05/29/2005 0.25 INCH CASSIA ID TRAINED SPOTTER
SLIGHTLY LARGER THAN PEA SIZE HAIL
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MEYERPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO/IDAHO FALLS ID
426 PM MDT SUN MAY 29 2005
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0400 PM HAIL 3 SW OAKLEY 42.21N 113.92W
05/29/2005 0.75 INCH CASSIA ID PUBLIC
3/4 INCH HAIL REPORTED BY OAKLEY CANAL COMPANY
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MEYERThe Pocatello radar (KSFX), 118 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:58 UTC.
1 lightning. Local standard time, as filed.
Lightning in Burley struck an electrical light system at Overland and 14th Street causing damage.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Idaho in 2005Every state in 2005This day in weather historyWarnings in Idaho, May 2005
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: 5456567.