A moist warm front moved just south of Southeast Oregon and Southwest Idaho spreading up to seventeen inches of new snow in the Boise mountains and up to nine inches in the Owyhee mountains. Valley locations received from two to six inches.
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The episode as NWS BOI wrote it up.
A moist warm front moved just south of Southeast Oregon and Southwest Idaho spreading up to seventeen inches of new snow in the Boise mountains and up to nine inches in the Owyhee mountains. Valley locations received from two to six inches.
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 Boise, ID wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jan 7, 3:47 PM MST, 9 hours 13 minutes earlier.
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</html>HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BOISE ID 536 AM MST MON JAN 7 2008 ORZ061>064-081245- HARNEY COUNTY-BAKER COUNTY-MALHEUR COUNTY- LOWER TREASURE VALLEY OR- 536 AM MST MON JAN 7 2008 /436 AM PST MON JAN 7 2008/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHEAST OREGON AND SOUTHEAST OREGON. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A SWIFT MOVING WEATHER SYSTEM WILL SPREAD 1 TO 3 INCHES OF SNOW OVER THE REGION THIS MORNING WITH AREAS OF GUSTY WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY HEAVY SNOW AND GUSTY WINDS WILL DEVELOP TUESDAY MORNING. SNOW ACCUMULATIONS OF 2 TO 4 INCHES IN THE VALLEYS AND 6 TO 10 INCHES IN THE MOUNTAINS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT ANY SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS THROUGH ESTABLISHED REPORTING PROCEDURES. IDZ011>015-029-081245- WEST CENTRAL MOUNTAINS-LOWER TREASURE VALLEY ID-BOISE MOUNTAINS- UPPER TREASURE VALLEY-SOUTHWEST HIGHLANDS-OWYHEE MOUNTAINS- 536 AM MST MON JAN 7 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHWEST IDAHO AND WEST CENTRAL IDAHO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A SWIFT MOVING WEATHER SYSTEM WILL SPREAD 1 TO 3 INCHES OF SNOW OVER THE REGION THIS MORNING WITH AREAS OF GUSTY WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY HEAVY SNOW AND GUSTY WINDS WILL DEVELOP TUESDAY MORNING. SNOW ACCUMULATIONS OF 2 TO 4 INCHES IN THE VALLEYS AND 8 TO 12 INCHES IN THE MOUNTAINS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT ANY SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS THROUGH ESTABLISHED REPORTING PROCEDURES. IDZ016-028-030-081245- WESTERN MAGIC VALLEY-CAMAS PRAIRIE-SOUTHERN TWIN FALLS COUNTY- 536 AM MST MON JAN 7 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL IDAHO AND SOUTHWEST IDAHO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A SWIFT MOVING STORM SYSTEM WILL SPREAD AN INCH OR TWO OF SNOW OVER THE AREA THIS MORNING WITH AREAS OF GUSTY WINDS. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY HEAVY SNOW AND GUSTY WINDS WILL DEVELOP TUESDAY MORNING. SNOW ACCUMULATIONS OF 2 TO 4 INCHES IN THE VALLEYS AND 6 TO 10 INCHES IN THE MOUNTAINS ARE POSSIBLE WITH THIS STORM. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT ANY SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS THROUGH ESTABLISHED REPORTING PROCEDURES.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
6 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
A trained spotter and cooperative observer at Cascade reported twelve inches of new snow. A cooperative observer at McCall reported six and one half inches of snow and New Meadows ranger station had six inches.
A media meteorologist in Meridian reported six inches of new snow during a twenty four hour period and locally heavy snow of 4 to 5 inches from southeast Boise to Mountain Home during a twelve hour period from 7 AM to 7 PM.
Several reports of four inches and locally six to seven inches of new snow in Nampa and Caldwell were relayed by local television stations. Eight inch drifts were also reported near Notus.
Six to nine inches of new snow were reported at South Mountain and Mud Flat SNOTELs respectively.
Trained spotters around the area reported nine to seventeen inches of snow during a 24 hour period but most of the heavy snow fell from about 10 am to 7 pm.
KMVT in Twin Falls reported five inches of new snow. The sheriff's office in Jerome and cooperative observers in Castleford and Buhl reported six inches.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Idaho in 2008Every state in 2008This day in weather historyWarnings in Idaho, January 2008
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: 77787, 77603, 77604, 77605, 77607, 77606.