Heavy snow fell in extreme eastern Idaho. Heaviest amounts were 20 inches at the White Elephant SNOTEL and 12 inches at the Franklin Basin SNOTEL.
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 episode as NWS PIH wrote it up.
Heavy snow fell in extreme eastern Idaho. Heaviest amounts were 20 inches at the White Elephant SNOTEL and 12 inches at the Franklin Basin SNOTEL.
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 Feb 26, 3:45 AM MST, 15 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO ID 345 AM MST MON FEB 26 2007 .SHORT TERM...LATEST SATELLITE IMAGERY SHOWING TRAILING SHORT-WAVE ENERGY WORKING THROUGH SE IDAHO EARLY THIS MORNING WITH ATTENDING BANDS OF PRECIPITATION CONTINUING OVER THE ERN HIGHLANDS. GENERAL TREND IS FOR DIMINISHING PRECIPITATION AS FLOW BEGINS TO AMPLIFY SLIGHTLY TODAY IN ADVANCE OF NEXT PAC SHORT-WAVE SYSTEM WHICH IS CURRENTLY DIGGING INTO BASE OF UPPER LOW POSITIONED OFF THE NW COAST. THUS WILL ALLOW CURRENT WARNING FOR MTN ZONES 18/31 AND 23/25 TO EXPIRE WITH MORNING PACKAGE. AFOREMENTIONED SHORT-WAVE EJECTS FROM PAC LOW THIS EVENING LIFTING ACROSS FORECAST AREA LATE TONIGHT/TUESDAY MORNING THEN INTO WYOMING BY TUESDAY AFTERNOON. FAST MOVING SYSTEM WOULD GENERALLY PRECLUDE WARNING SNOWFALL HOWEVER CENTRAL MOUNTAINS BUMPING UP CLOSE TO WARNING AMOUNTS WHILE NRN PORTION OF WASATCH MOUNTAINS WEST OF BEAR LAKE WILL LIKELY SEE WARNING AMOUNTS IN MOIST UNSTABLE SW FLOW. THUS HAVE ISSUED A WINTER STORM WATCH FOR ZONE 25 LATE TONIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY WHILE HOLDING OFF ON CNTRL MOUNTAINS. DAY SHIFT WILL HAVE TO MONITOR THIS POTENTIAL HIGHLIGHT IN THE CNTRL MOUNTAINS. REMAINDER OF PAC NW LOW MIGRATES INLAND TUESDAY NIGHT CARVING OUT A BROAD UPPER TROUGH OVER THE REGION WEDNESDAY AND WEDNESDAY NIGHT. THUS HAVE CONTINUED MAINLY CHANCE MENTION OF PRECIPITATION THROUGH REMAINDER OF PERIOD UNDER CONVECTIVE SHOWER PATTERN. TEMPS REMAIN SEASONABLE THROUGH TUESDAY BEFORE FALLING TUESDAY NIGHT THROUGH WEDNESDAY NIGHT. CLOUDS AND COVERAGE OF PRECIPITATION WILL HAVE A STRONG DETERMINATION ON HOW COLD TEMPS GET...PLAYING IT TOWARD THE COOLER SIDE FOR NOW. HUSTON .LONG TERM...THURSDAY THROUGH MONDAY... A RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE WILL BEGIN TO BUILD ACROSS THE EASTERN PACIFIC EARLY IN THE PERIOD...WHILE EASTERN IDAHO WILL REMAIN UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF A TROUGH OF LOW PRESSURE ALONG AND JUST EAST OF THE NORTHERN ROCKIES. A SERIES OF AT LEAST TWO DISTURBANCES IS EXPECTED TO MIGRATE THROUGH THE REGION DURING THE THURSDAY THROUGH EARLY SATURDAY PERIOD LEADING TO THE THREAT OF PRECIPITATION. THESE DISTURBANCES WILL COME FROM AN INCREASINGLY MORE NORTHWEST DIRECTION...THUS WINDS WILL BE THE MOST EVIDENT WEATHER FOR SNAKE PLAIN LOCATIONS...WITH PRECIPITATION FAVORING THE CENTRAL AND EASTERN HIGHLAND AREAS. LONG RANGE MODELS ARE NOW INDICATING DECENT COLLABORATION THAT THE RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE WILL SLIDE EASTWARD OVER THE REGION FOR THE MID TO LATE WEEKEND AND EARLY NEXT WEEK. THIS WILL LEAD TO A PERIOD OF DRYING AND WARMING...THUS HAVE TRENDED THE FORECAST IN THAT DIRECTION SUNDAY AND MONDAY. CANTIN && .AVIATION...ABUNDANT MOISTURE CONTINUES TO STREAM WEST TO EAST OVER THE REGION. A COLD FRONT...RESPONSIBLE FOR SHOWER ACTIVITY EARLIER...HAS NOW MOVE EASTWARD INTO WYOMING. AN AREA OF MVFR/IFR CONDITIONS REMAIN BEHIND THE FRONT IN THE UPPER VALLEY BETWEEN KPIH AND KIDA...AS WELL AS IN AREAS EAST OF KIDA ALONG TWEB ROUTE 343. THESE CONDITIONS WILL PERSIST...AT LEAST IN PART...THROUGH 18Z WITH AREAS NORTH AND EAST OF KIDA FAVORED. OTHERWISE...VFR CONDITIONS WITH PLENTY OF MID AND HIGH LEVEL CLOUDS ARE ANTICIPATED. CANTIN && .PIH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... WINTER STORM WATCH FOR ZONE 25 LATE TONIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY AFTERNOON. SEE STATEMENTS FOR FURTHER DETAILS. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO ID 430 AM MST SUN FEB 25 2007 IDZ017>025-031-032-261245- 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- 430 AM MST SUN FEB 25 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN IDAHO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A WINTER STORM WARNING CONTINUES FOR THE CENTRAL IDAHO MOUNTAINS AND SOUTHEAST HIGHLANDS TODAY AND TONIGHT WITH STORM TOTAL SNOWFALL OF 7 TO 11 INCHES ANTICIPATED. A SNOW ADVISORY HAS ALSO BEEN ISSUED FOR THE EASTERN MAGIC VALLEY NORTH OF SHOSHONE THROUGH MIDNIGHT TONIGHT WHERE STORM TOTAL SNOWFALL OF 3 TO 5 INCHES IS EXPECTED ACROSS THE FOOTHILLS LEADING INTO THE CENTRAL MOUNTAINS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SUNDAY AN ACTIVE WINTER WEATHER PATTERN WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE PERIOD. THE POTENTIAL FOR YET ANOTHER HEAVY SNOW EVENT LOOMS ACROSS THE CENTRAL MOUNTAINS FOR TUESDAY. NO HIGHLIGHTS HAVE BEEN ISSUED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WE ASK TRAINED SPOTTERS AND CITIZENS TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS WHEN IT IS SAFE TO DO SO. THESE CONDITIONS MAY INCLUDE HAIL...TORNADOES...STRONG WIND...DUST STORMS...SNOWFALL... EXTREME COLD TEMPERATURES...FREEZING RAIN OR HEAVY RAIN...DENSE FOG...AND FLOODING OR ICE JAMS. INFORMATION ABOUT THESE HAZARDOUS CONDITIONS SHOULD BE CALLED INTO YOUR NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN POCATELLO USING THE 1-800 SEVERE WEATHER HOTLINE...OR 208-233-0834.
2 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
Twenty inches of snow fell at the White Elephant SNOTEL site eight miles northwest of Island Park.
Twelve inches of snow fell at the Franklin Basin SNOTEL site 14 miles east of Preston.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Idaho in 2007Every state in 2007This day in weather historyWarnings in Idaho, February 2007
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: 13995, 13996.