A moist Pacific storm system pushing into the region off of the Pacific brought heavy snow across the Northern Panhandle valleys and mountains. Strong low level warm air advection limited heavy snowfall above 3,000 feet in elevation.
Every event with a place to put it; 2 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
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 OTX wrote it up.
A moist Pacific storm system pushing into the region off of the Pacific brought heavy snow across the Northern Panhandle valleys and mountains. Strong low level warm air advection limited heavy snowfall above 3,000 feet in elevation.
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 Spokane, WA wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jan 8, 2:34 PM PST, 26 minutes earlier.
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</html>HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOKANE WA 642 AM PST WED JAN 8 2014 IDZ001-004-WAZ031-037-038-042-091500- NORTHERN PANHANDLE-CENTRAL PANHANDLE MOUNTAINS- NORTHEAST BLUE MOUNTAINS-NORTHEAST MOUNTAINS-OKANOGAN HIGHLANDS- EAST SLOPES NORTHERN CASCADES- 642 AM PST WED JAN 8 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH IDAHO... NORTH CENTRAL WASHINGTON...NORTHEAST WASHINGTON AND SOUTHEAST WASHINGTON. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT MODERATE TO HEAVY SNOW ACCUMULATIONS ARE EXPECTED LATE THIS AFTERNOON INTO TONIGHT. SNOW LEVELS WILL RANGE FROM 4000 FEET IN SOUTHEAST WASHINGTON TO THE VALLEY FLOORS IN THE CASCADES... NORTHEAST WASHINGTON...AND THE FAR NORTH IDAHO PANHANDLE. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY SNOW WILL LINGER OVER THE IDAHO PANHANDLE INTO THURSDAY. ANOTHER POWERFUL WINTER STORM WILL BRING ANOTHER ROUND OF SNOW BEGINNING FRIDAY NIGHT...FOLLOWED BY WINDY CONDITIONS SATURDAY. WIND GUSTS EXCEEDING 30 MPH WILL BE COMMON THROUGHOUT THE IDAHO PANHANDLE...NORTHEAST WASHINGTON...THE CASCADES...AND THE EAST SLOPES OF THE CASCADES. MOUNTAIN RIDGES AND OTHER EXPOSED AREAS MAY EXPERIENCE WIND GUSTS OVER 50 MPH ON SATURDAY AND SATURDAY EVENING. IDZ002-003-026-027-WAZ032>036-041-043-044-091500- COEUR D'ALENE AREA-IDAHO PALOUSE-LEWISTON AREA- LEWIS AND SOUTHERN NEZ PERCE COUNTIES- LOWER GARFIELD AND ASOTIN COUNTIES-WASHINGTON PALOUSE- MOSES LAKE AREA-UPPER COLUMBIA BASIN-SPOKANE AREA-WENATCHEE AREA- OKANOGAN VALLEY-WATERVILLE PLATEAU- 642 AM PST WED JAN 8 2014 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTH IDAHO... NORTH CENTRAL IDAHO...CENTRAL WASHINGTON...EAST CENTRAL WASHINGTON...NORTH CENTRAL WASHINGTON...NORTHEAST WASHINGTON AND SOUTHEAST WASHINGTON. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT LIGHT SNOW AND ICE ACCUMULATIONS WILL BE POSSIBLE TODAY AND THIS EVENING OVER THE UPPER COLUMBIA BASIN...WATERVILLE PLATEAU...AND WENATCHEE AREA. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY A POWERFUL STORM SYSTEM WILL PRODUCE RAIN AND STRONG WINDS ON SATURDAY. WIND GUSTS OF 50 MPH OR MORE WILL BE POSSIBLE SATURDAY AND SATURDAY EVENING OVER THE PALOUSE...COLUMBIA BASIN...WEST PLAINS...WATERVILLE PLATEAU...AND SPOKANE AREA.
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SPOKANE WA
100 PM PST WED JAN 08 2014
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0440 AM HEAVY SNOW 7 E CHEWELAH 48.30N 117.57W
01/08/2014 M6.0 INCH STEVENS WA PUBLIC
6 INCHES OF NEW SNOW REPORTED AT 49 DEGREES NORTH SKI
RESORT.
0520 AM HEAVY SNOW 10 N NEWMAN LAKE 47.92N 117.11W
01/08/2014 M6.0 INCH SPOKANE WA PUBLIC
MT SPOKANE SKI RESORT REPORTED 6 INCHES OF NEW SNOW.
0525 AM SNOW 4 ESE MULLAN 47.46N 115.70W
01/08/2014 M3.0 INCH MINERAL MT PUBLIC
3 INCHES OF SNOW REPORTED AT LOOKOUT PASS SKI RESORT.
0525 AM SNOW 5 NW SANDPOINT 48.33N 116.64W
01/08/2014 M2.0 INCH BONNER ID PUBLIC
2 INCHES OF SNOW REPORTED AT SCHWEITZER SKI RESORT.
0600 AM SNOW 3 NW AIRWAY HEIGHTS 47.68N 117.63W
01/08/2014 M1.6 INCH SPOKANE WA OFFICIAL NWS OBS
MEASURED AT THE NWS SPOKANE OFFICE.
0600 AM SNOW 3 ESE AIRWAY HEIGHTS 47.63N 117.52W
01/08/2014 M1.5 INCH SPOKANE WA OFFICIAL NWS OBS
SPOKANE INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT
0600 AM SNOW DAVENPORT 47.65N 118.15W
01/08/2014 E2.0 INCH LINCOLN WA PUBLIC
REPORTED VIA SOCIAL MEDIA
0700 AM SNOW Haydon 47.75N 116.78W
01/08/2014 M2.0 INCH KOOTENAI ID CO-OP OBSERVER
0700 AM SNOW PRICHARD 3 ESE 47.64N 115.92W
01/08/2014 M3.0 INCH SHOSHONE ID CO-OP OBSERVER
0700 AM SNOW Worley Fire District 47.48N 117.00W
01/08/2014 M3.0 INCH KOOTENAI ID CO-OP OBSERVER
0730 AM SNOW 6 W ROSALIA 47.23N 117.49W
01/08/2014 U1.5 INCH WHITMAN WA TRAINED SPOTTER
STORM TOTAL SNOWFALL. SNOW STARTED TO FALL EARLY ON
TUESDAY AND CONTINUED OFF AND ON THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT.
0800 AM SNOW BAYVIEW 47.97N 116.57W
01/08/2014 M3.0 INCH KOOTENAI ID CO-OP OBSERVER
0800 AM SNOW STEHEKIN 48.35N 120.73W
01/08/2014 M4.0 INCH CHELAN WA CO-OP OBSERVER
0800 AM SNOW BAYVIEW 47.97N 116.57W
01/08/2014 M3.0 INCH KOOTENAI ID CO-OP OBSERVER
0819 AM SNOW 4 N HAYDEN LAKE 47.82N 116.75W
01/08/2014 E3.8 INCH KOOTENAI ID TRAINED SPOTTER
STORM TOTAL SNOWFALL. SNOW BEGAN AROUND 1615 PST ON
TUESDAY AND CONTINUED INTO THE NIGHT. ELEVATION OF 2250
FT.
0857 AM SNOW 3 NNE LOON LAKE 48.10N 117.59W
01/08/2014 M1.8 INCH STEVENS WA TRAINED SPOTTER
FELL OVERNIGHT. WATER EQUIVALENT WAS .21
0900 AM HEAVY SNOW SANDPOINT 48.29N 116.56W
01/08/2014 M4.6 INCH BONNER ID CO-OP OBSERVER
0905 AM SNOW 1 ENE METALINE 48.86N 117.37W
01/08/2014 U1.5 INCH PEND OREILLE WA TRAINED SPOTTER
TOTAL SNOWFALL THROUGH 0800 PST THIS MORNING. SNOW BEGAN
AT 1555 PST ON TUESDAY. LIGHT SNOW CONTINUING TO FALL
THROUGH 0900 PST.
1016 AM SNOW NW BLANCHARD 48.02N 116.98W
01/08/2014 M2.2 INCH BONNER ID TRAINED SPOTTER
SPOTTER REPORTED 2.2 INCHES OF SNOW OVERNIGHT AND JUST
NOW STARTING TO SNOW ONCE AGAIN.
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RFLIEHMAThe national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
2 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
Storm total snowfall accumulations ranged between two and six inches in the valleys with ten inches reported at Schweitzer Ski Resort.
Storm total snowfall of nine inches reported at Lookout Pass Ski Resort.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Idaho in 2014Every state in 2014This day in weather historyWarnings in Idaho, January 2014
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: 489456, 489458.