A second strong Pacific storm system of the week caused another bout of heavy snow with more 1 to 2 foot amounts recorded at SNOTEL sites.
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 second strong Pacific storm system of the week caused another bout of heavy snow with more 1 to 2 foot amounts recorded at SNOTEL sites.
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 Jan 20, 1:17 PM MST, 3 hours 43 minutes earlier.
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A strong Pacific storm brought heavy snow to the Sawtooth region. 22 inches fell at Banner Summit with 12 inches at Mill Creek Summit, and 14 inches at Stickney Mill.
Eleven inches of snow fell at Black Bear with 10 inches at Crab Creek and 11 inches at Island Park.
Nineteen inches of snow fell at Bostetter Ranger Station.
Eleven inches of snow fell at Pine Creek Pass with 11 inches at Somsen Ranch and 19 inches at Wildhorse Divide.
Sixteen inches of snow fell at Emigrant Summit with 17 inches at Slug Creek Divide.
Spotters reported 10 inches of snow at Hailey and 11 inches at Bellevue. SNOTEL sites were: 15 inches at Chocolate Gulch, 19 inches at Garfield Ranger Station, 14 inches at Galena Summit, 19 inches at Hyndman, and 12 inches at Vienna Mine.
Eighteen inches of snow fell at Meadow Lake with 10 inches at Morgan Creek.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Idaho in 2012Every state in 2012This day in weather historyWarnings in Idaho, January 2012
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: 361788, 361797, 361808, 361845, 361851, 361853, 361857.