Snowfall fell throughout the day on the 13th in Pocatello with amounts of 6 inches measured at the Pocatello Regional Airport by the National Weather Service. Six inches also were measured in Chubbuck and the city of Pocatello.
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The episode as NWS PIH wrote it up.
Snowfall fell throughout the day on the 13th in Pocatello with amounts of 6 inches measured at the Pocatello Regional Airport by the National Weather Service. Six inches also were measured in Chubbuck and the city of Pocatello.
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 13, 2:40 AM MST, 3 hours 20 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO ID 240 AM MST WED FEB 13 2008 .SHORT TERM...TODAY THROUGH FRIDAY NIGHT. LATEST SATELLITE IMAGERY SHOWING INCOMING SHORT-WAVE DIGGING STRONGLY SE INTO THE IDAHO PANHANDLE EARLY THIS MORNING WITH WRN EXTENT OF TROUGH EXTENDING TO THE OREGON COAST WHERE DECENT SUBSIDENCE/DRYING WAS NOTED IN THE WATER VAPOR CHANNEL. NAM/GFS STILL AT MINOR ODDS WITH SPEED OF PASSING UPPER TROUGH TODAY ALTHOUGH THE 06Z NAM IS BEGINNING TO LOOK MORE LIKE THE GFS WITH EACH NEW RUN. GFS HAS BEEN CONSISTENT OVER THE LAST SEVERAL RUNS DRIVING THE UPPER TROUGH INTO THE REGION THIS MORNING WITH ATTENDING PRECIPITATION SPREADING ACROSS THE CNTRL MOUNTAINS EARLY THIS MORNING THEN INTO THE SNAKE PLAINS AND SE HIGHLANDS BY 18Z AS COLD FRONT DIVES THROUGH REGION. UPPER TROUGH SLOWS AND BEGINS TO CLOSE OFF OVER SE IDAHO FROM 18-00Z THIS AFTERNOON AND THEN PER GFS DIGS SOUTH INTO NRN UTAH BY 06Z. THE FACT THAT THE MODEL HAS BEEN WANTING TO CLOSE THE CIRCULATION OFF OVER IDAHO AND YET MAINTAIN PROGRESSION OF LOW SWEEPING INTO NRN UTAH HAS BEEN SOMEWHAT BOTHERSOME AS EXPECTATION WOULD SUPPORT SLOWER MOVEMENT OF LOW. NAM PAINTING SIMILAR PICTURE HOWEVER SO WILL FLOAT ALONG WITH MODELS AND CONTINUE TO MONITOR SITUATION FOR POTENTIAL EXTENSION OF HIGHER POPS OVER THE SE HIGHLANDS INTO THE EVENING HOURS WITH HIGHER SNOWFALL TOTALS AND POTENTIAL HIGHLIGHTS WHERE WE PRESENTLY HAVE SUB-WARNING LEVEL SNOWFALL TODAY AND A GENERAL DRYING TREND ACROSS THE ENTIRE FORECAST AREA TONIGHT. SECOND ITEM OF CONCERN WOULD BE THE POTENTIAL FOR A BRIEF CONVERGENCE EVENT THIS AFTERNOON BEHIND PASSING SURFACE FRONT TRANSITIONING INTO UPSLOPE FLOW ACROSS THE SE FOOTHILLS THIS AFTERNOON. THUS HAVE CONTINUED A LIKELY MENTION OF PRECIPITATION ACROSS THE ERN FOOTHILLS THROUGH THE AFTERNOON. WAVE SHOULD BE WELL SOUTH OF THE REGION BY THURSDAY AFTERNOON AS A DRY NORTH FLOW ENVELOPS THE AREA. FLOW SHOULD BE CONDUCIVE TO CLEARING SKIES WHICH SPELLS A VERY COLD MORNING FOR THURSDAY NIGHT. THUS HAVE MAINTAINED FORECAST DRY CONDITIONS AND COLDER TEMPERATURES FOR THURSDAY NIGHT. RIDGE WEAKENS AS NEXT UPSTREAM PAC WAVE TOPS WEST COAST RIDGE FRIDAY AFTERNOON DIVING SE INTO MONTANA FRIDAY NIGHT WITH LEADING EDGE OF WEAK PRECIPITATION EVENT SKIRTING NE DIVIDE AREA. THUS HAVE INTRODUCED A SLIGHT CHANCE MENTION OF PRECIPITATION FOR NE MOUNTAINS. HUSTON .LONG TERM...SATURDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. BOTH GFS AND ECMWF DEVELOP A HIGH AMPLITUDE UPPER RIDGE OVER THE WRN US ON SUNDAY. AGREEMENT IS FAIRLY GOOD THRU MON...BUT THEN THE GFS DROPS A SMALL UPPER LOW INTO THE GREAT BASIN BY MON EVE. THE ECMWF KEEPS THE RIDGE INTACT. LOOKING AT THE GFS ENSEMBLE MEMBERS...THERE IS SOME DYSFUNCTION IN THE HOUSEHOLD. SOME MEMBERS TAKE THE SIDE OF THE ECMWF. WITH THIS MUCH UNCERTAINTY...WILL MAKE ONLY MINOR CHANGES TO THE EXTENDED. WILL RAISE TEMPS A LITTLE TO REFLECT THE WARMER EFFECTS OF THE RIDGE. BY THE END OF THE PERIOD...THE ECMWF AND GFS ARE TOTALLY OUT OF PHASE. HEDGES && .AVIATION...IFR CIGS/VIS OVER THE UPPER SNAKE RIVER PLAIN WILL CONTINUE UNTIL MID MORNING...BUT WILL BE CLEARED OUT WHEN THE COLD FRONT PASSES. SOME LIMITED CIG/VIS DUE TO SNOW WILL OCCUR WITH THE FRONT...AND CONTINUE INTO THE AFTN HRS. STRONG SW WINDS WILL ACCOMPANY THE FRONT LAT MORNING THRU AFTN...WITH IMPROVING CONDITIONS BY LATE AFTN. HEDGES && .PIH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO ID 300 AM MST WED FEB 13 2008 IDZ017>025-031-032-141315- 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- 300 AM MST WED FEB 13 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN IDAHO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A PACIFIC WEATHER DISTURBANCE WILL DIG SOUTHEAST THROUGH THE REGION TODAY GENERATING BREEZY WINDS AND SNOW. ACCUMULATIONS ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN BELOW WARNING CRITERIA WHILE WIND SPEEDS COULD POSSIBLY APPROACH THE LOWER END OF ADVISORY LEVELS IN THE SNAKE PLAIN BRIEFLY AHEAD OF THE COLD FRONT THIS MORNING. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. A RIDGE WILL REMAIN POSITIONED OVER THE COAST WITH A WEAK DISTURBANCE SKIRTING OUR NORTHEAST BORDER SATURDAY. .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.
1 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
Snowfall fell throughout the day on the 13th in Pocatello with amounts of 6 inches measured at the Pocatello Regional Airport by the National Weather Service. Six inches also were measured in Chubbuck and the city of Pocatello.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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