Name: Heavy Snow in Idaho, March 15, 2008
Start: 2008-03-15T15:00
End: 2008-03-15T18:00
Location: Idaho

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 PIH wrote it up.

A quick snowfall at the rate of 2 to 2.5 inches per hour fell in the Pocatello and Chubbuck areas with amounts as high as 7.5 inches in the benches surrounding the city. The snow began at 3 pm and amounts of 5 inches were measured by National Weather Service personnel in the cities of Pocatello and Chubbuck by 5:30 pm. As much as 7.5 inches of snow were measured on the benches.

Event by event

1 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.

Heavy Snow, Lower Snake River Plain

When: March 15, 3:00 PM MST to 6:00 PM MST
Where: Lower Snake River Plain forecast zone
Reported by: NWS Employee

A quick snowfall at the rate of 2 to 2.5 inches per hour fell in the Pocatello and Chubbuck areas with amounts as high as 7.5 inches in the benches surrounding the city. The snow began at 3 pm and amounts of 5 inches were measured by National Weather Service personnel in the cities of Pocatello and Chubbuck by 5:30 pm. As much as 7.5 inches of snow were measured in the benches by 6 pm. Less than 10 miles west of the city, only 1.5 inches fell at the Pocatello Regional Airport.

What these are

Heavy Snow: Snowfall reaching the local warning threshold without the other hazards of a winter storm.

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

The same day elsewhere

More

Every storm in Idaho in 2008 Every state in 2008 This day in weather history Warnings in Idaho, March 2008

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 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 86434.