A snowmobiler died near Palisades Peak in Neely's Cove in Bonneville County due to an avalanche.
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 snowmobiler died near Palisades Peak in Neely's Cove in Bonneville County due to an avalanche.
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 Dec 26, 8:38 AM MST, 5 hours 22 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO ID 838 AM MST THU DEC 26 2013 .UPDATE...SAT IMAGERY SHOWS HIGH CLOUDS STREAMING AROUND THE PERIPHERY OF THE RIDGE AND MAINLY IMPACTING AREAS ALONG THE MONTANA AND WYOMING BORDERS. SURFACE BASED INVERSIONS REMAIN THE CONCERN IN THE SHORT TERM. AREA WEBCAMS SHOW AND SFC OBSERVATIONS INDICATE FOG IMPACTING THE CACHE VALLEY REGION THIS MORNING BUT LAYER APPEARS EXTREMELY SHALLOW SO BURN OFF SHOULDNT BE A PROBLEM BY MID DAY. MODELS KEEP BOUNDARY LAYER MOIST BUT EARLY LOOK AT NEW GUIDANCE INDICATES MAIN IMPACT OVERNIGHT WILL BE STRATUS AND NOT FOG. CURRENT FORECAST PACKAGE IN GOOD SHAPE SO ANTICIPATE NO UPDATES THIS MORNING. DMH && .PREV DISCUSSION... /ISSUED 249 AM MST THU DEC 26 2013/ SHORT TERM...TODAY THROUGH SUNDAY. UPPER RIDGE AMPLIFYING OVER THE PACIFIC COAST THIS MORNING SHOULD LEAD TO A DRY NORTHWESTERLY FLOW OVER EAST IDAHO TODAY. FOG/STRATUS PERSISTED OVER THE UPPER SNAKE PLAIN FOR MUCH OF CHRISTMAS DAY BEFORE RETREATING JUST BEFORE SUNSET. WEBCAMS THIS MORNING SHOW SOME PATCHES OF FOG DRIFTING IN AND OUT OF VIEW...SO WE KNOW IT IS THERE. HAVE KEPT PATCHY FOG IN THE FORECAST THIS MORNING AND TOMORROW MORNING. UPPER RIDGE SHIFTS EASTWARD FRIDAY NIGHT AS A TROUGH APPROACHES THE PAC NW. AREA COULD RECEIVE ITS NEXT ROUND OF PRECIP SATURDAY MORNING...BUT MAINLY IN THE HIGH COUNTRY. QPF FIELD GENERATED BY THE MODELS IS PRETTY WEAK WITH THIS SYSTEM. HINSBERGER LONG TERM...SUNDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. THE ECMWF RUN FROM 26/00Z INCREASED THE AMPLITUDE OF THE HIGH PRESSURE RIDGE NEAR 130W ENOUGH THAT THE MINOR DISTURBANCE COMING OVER THE TOP ON SUNDAY BARELY NIPS THE AREA AROUND ISLAND PARK. THE MODEL IS ALSO SLOWER WITH THE LOW OVER HUDSON BAY. DIFFICULT TO SAY IF THERE IS A DEFINITE TREND IN THE MODEL...BUT IT APPEARS THERE IS A SLOWING OF EMBEDDED DISTURBANCES MONDAY AND TUESDAY TIME FRAME THAT CROSS THE GULF OF ALASKA. THE GFS NOW BRINGS MORE MOISTURE ACROSS THE CENTRAL MOUNTAINS AND EASTERN HIGHLANDS...PARTICULARLY MONDAY NIGHT AND TUESDAY AND AT A FASTER PACE. NO SIGNIFICANT CHANGES WERE MADE TO THE FORECAST AT THIS TIME. RS AVIATION...SCATTERED MIDDLE AND UPPER LEVEL CLOUDS THIS MORNING MAY BE WORKING AGAINST DEVELOPMENT OF FOG AT TAF SITES. FRIDAY MORNING COULD BE DIFFERENT AS CLOUD COVER WILL BE LESS AND NAM12 MODEL FAVORS AN INCREASE IN BOUNDARY LAYER HUMIDITY AT KIDA AND TO A LESSER EXTENT KPIH. RS && .PIH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NONE. &&
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO ID 411 AM MST THU DEC 26 2013 IDZ017>025-031-032-271115- EASTERN MAGIC VALLEY-SAWTOOTH MOUNTAINS-UPPER SNAKE HIGHLANDS- UPPER SNAKE RIVER PLAIN-LOWER SNAKE RIVER PLAIN- SOUTH CENTRAL HIGHLANDS-CARIBOU HIGHLANDS- CACHE VALLEY/IDAHO PORTION-WASATCH MOUNTAINS/IDAHO PORTION- BIG AND LITTLE WOOD RIVER REGION-LOST RIVER/PAHSIMEROI- 411 AM MST THU DEC 26 2013 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR EASTERN IDAHO. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WE ASK TRAINED SPOTTERS AND CITIZENS TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS WHEN IT IS SAFE TO DO SO. THESE CONDITIONS MAY INCLUDE HAIL...TORNADOES...STRONG WIND...DUST STORMS...SNOWFALL... EXTREME COLD TEMPERATURES...FREEZING RAIN OR HEAVY RAIN...DENSE FOG...AND FLOODING OR ICE JAMS. INFORMATION ABOUT THESE HAZARDOUS CONDITIONS SHOULD BE CALLED INTO YOUR NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE OFFICE IN POCATELLO USING THE 1-800 SEVERE WEATHER HOTLINE...OR 208-233-0834.
1 avalanche. Local standard time, as filed.
A snowmobiler died near Palisades Peak in Neely's Cove in Bonneville County due to an avalanche.
As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.
| Event | Date | Age | Sex | Where | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avalanche, Caribou Highlands | 2013-12-26 | 39 | Male | Outside/Open Areas | Direct |
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