Extreme Cold in Idaho, January 12, 2007

Name: Extreme Cold in Idaho, January 12, 2007
Start: 2007-01-12T06:00
End: 2007-01-12T15:00
Location: Idaho

January 12, 2007 · NWS MSO · 1 event in 1 county or zone

On January 12, bitterly cold temperatures accompanied by wind forced the closure of Leadore Schools in eastern Lemhi County.

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 happened

The episode as NWS MSO wrote it up.

On January 12, bitterly cold temperatures accompanied by wind forced the closure of Leadore Schools in eastern Lemhi County.

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 Jan 11, 2:22 PM MST, 15 hours 38 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 11, 2:22 PM MST, 15 hours 38 minutes before

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The radar

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Event by event

1 extreme cold/wind chill. Local standard time, as filed.

Extreme Cold/Wind Chill, Eastern Lemhi County

When: January 12, 6:00 AM MST to 3:00 PM MST
Where: Eastern Lemhi County forecast zone
Reported by: Newspaper
Coordinates: 44.943, -113.933 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)

A 31 degrees below zero reading in combination of some wind, closed schools in the Leadore area. Other low temperatures were 24 degrees below zero at Lemhi and 33 degrees below at Stanley. An ice jam on the Salmon River began to grow and extended from near North Fork to eight miles north of Salmon.

What these are

Extreme Cold/Wind Chill: Temperatures or wind chills at or below the local warning criteria, or cold that caused deaths.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

Every storm in Idaho in 2007 Every state in 2007 This day in weather history Warnings in Idaho, January 2007

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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 13284.