Some mountain locations received 8 to 18 inches of snow during an early January winter storm affecting high elevations in southeast Idaho.
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.
Some mountain locations received 8 to 18 inches of snow during an early January winter storm affecting high elevations in southeast Idaho.
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.
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</html>4 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
Fourteen inches of snow fell at the black Bar SNOTEL. Other SNOTEL amounts were 13 inches at Phillips Bench and 8 inches at White Elephant. 7 inches were reported by spotters in Driggs and Ashton. Idaho route 32 was closed between Idaho 33 and Idaho 47 from Tetonia to Ashton due to heavy snow and drifting snow at 2 pm MST on the 9th.
The Howell Canyon SNOTEL recorded 18 inches of snow and the Magic Mountain SNOTEL recorded 10 inches.
Ten inches of snow fell at Sheep Mountain with 9 inches at Pine Creek Pass.
Nine inches of snow fell at the Emigrant Summit and Slug Creek Divide SNOTEL sites.
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: 497875, 497878, 497881, 497884.