A mid November winter storm off the Pacific brought 6 to 12 inches of snow to the Central Mountains as well as 6 to 24 inches to the Idaho Wasatch. Up to a foot also was recorded in the Cache Valley.
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 mid November winter storm off the Pacific brought 6 to 12 inches of snow to the Central Mountains as well as 6 to 24 inches to the Idaho Wasatch. Up to a foot also was recorded in the Cache Valley.
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 16, 1:56 PM MST, 10 hours 4 minutes earlier.
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</html>4 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
Twelve inches of snow fell at Dollarhide with 9 inches at Galena and 11 inches at Vienna Mine.
Six inches of snow fell at Bear Canyon with 7 inches at Smiley Mountain and 10 inches at Mill Creek Summit.
Spotters reported a foot of snow in the Preston and Weston areas in the Cache Valley.
Spotters reported 16 inches of snow in St Charles and 9 inches in Montpelier. SNOTEL amounts were 8 inches at Slug Creek, 23 inches at Franklin Basin, and 11 inches at Emigrant Summit.
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 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 354157, 354158, 354160, 354168.