Interstate 15 closed between Idaho Falls and Roberts and mileposts 119 to 135 due to strong winds. The winds caused visibilities to drop to zero.
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.
Interstate 15 closed between Idaho Falls and Roberts and mileposts 119 to 135 due to strong winds. The winds caused visibilities to drop to zero. The interstate closed at 11:27 AM.
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 Nov 13, 2:27 PM MST, 21 hours earlier.
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</html>1 dust storm. Local standard time, as filed.
Interstate 15 closed between Idaho Falls and Roberts and mileposts 119 to 135 due to strong winds. The winds caused visibilities to drop to zero. The interstate closed at 11:27 AM.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Idaho in 2011Every state in 2011This day in weather historyWarnings in Idaho, November 2011
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: 354178.