Eight to 16 inches of snow fell in the Idaho Wasatch and 6 to 10 inches of snow fell in the Upper Snake River Plain. Several Idaho Falls area schools were closed on April 6th including Idaho Falls district 91, Bonneville district 93, Shelley district 60, and Ririe district 252.
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.
Eight to 16 inches of snow fell in the Idaho Wasatch and 6 to 10 inches of snow fell in the Upper Snake River Plain. Several Idaho Falls area schools were closed on April 6th including Idaho Falls district 91, Bonneville district 93, Shelley district 60, and Ririe district 252.
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 Apr 5, 2:31 AM MST, 1 hour 29 minutes earlier.
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</html>2 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
An early spring storm brought heavy wet snowfall to the Idaho Wasatch. 16 inches of snow fell at the Slug Creek SNOTEL and the Franklin Basin SNOTEL. Spotters reported 10 inches at Bern, 9 inches at Montpelier, and 8 inches at Georgetown.
An early spring storm dropped heavy snowfall in the Upper Snake River Plain. 6 to 8 inches was reported by spotters in Rigby. 6 inches fell in Idaho Falls and 5 inches was reported in Shelley. The following school districts were closed on April 6th: Idaho Falls district 91, Bonneville district 93, Jefferson district 251, Shelley district 90, and Ririe district 252.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Idaho in 2010Every state in 2010This day in weather historyWarnings in Idaho, April 2010
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: 225287, 225288.