A late winter storm brought 9 to 14 inches to various SNOTL sites in the Central Mountains.
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.
A late winter storm brought 9 to 14 inches to various SNOTL sites in the Central Mountains.
2 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
Eleven inches of snow fell at the Smiley Mountain SNOTEL. Fourteen inches of snow fell at the Bear Canyon SNOTEL, and 13 inches fell at the Mill Creek Summit SNOTEL.
Fourteen inches of snow fell at the Vienna Mine SNOTEL and 12 inches of snow fell at the Lost Wood Divide SNOTEL.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Idaho in 2009Every state in 2009This day in weather historyWarnings in Idaho, March 2009
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: 162138, 162139.