Several SNOTEL sites received over 10 inches of snow during this event.
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.
Several SNOTEL sites received over 10 inches of snow during this event.
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 Feb 6, 3:28 AM MST, 7 hours 32 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE POCATELLO ID 328 AM MST FRI FEB 6 2015 .SHORT TERM...TODAY THROUGH SUN NIGHT. BRIEF UPPER LEVEL RIDGING WILL BREAK DOWN IN RESPONSE TO A POWERFUL...MOIST...BUT VERY WARM STORM THAT IS CURRENTLY PUSHING ONSHORE IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA AND WESTERN OREGON. LIGHT PRECIPITATION COULD START AS EARLY AS THIS MORNING IN THE MOUNTAINS THAT BORDER WITH WFO BOISE...BUT MORE LIKELY TO SEE IT START IN THE AFTERNOON. ACCUMULATION RATES SOAR DURING THE OVERNIGHT HOURS. BUT THE TIME THIS FIRST LOW IS THROUGH ON SUN MORNING...10 TO 30 INCHES ARE POSSIBLE IN THE MOUNTAINS OF CENTRAL IDAHO...MAINLY THE SAWTOOTHS...THE SMOKY MOUNTAINS...AND THE BOULDER-WHITE CLOUD MOUNTAINS. SNOW LEVEL CAME OUT AT 7500 FEET OR HIGHER FOR THIS EVENT...SO ONLY A SNOW ADVISORY NEEDED FOR THE WYOMING BORDER ZONES AND FOR ZONE 32. BELOW THE 7500 FT ELEVATION IN THE STANLEY BASIN AND WOOD RIVER VALLEY ABOVE 6000 FT...5 TO 10 INCHES OF SNOW IS POSSIBLE...BUT THE WARNING OVER- WRITES THE ADVISORY ISSUED. ELSEWHERE...EXPECT HEAVY RAIN...WITH STORM TOTALS IN EXCESS OF 0.25 INCHES IN THE SNAKE RIVER PLAIN. MODERATE TO STRONG WIND POSSIBLE WITH THE POTENTIAL FOR A WIND ADVISORY ON SATURDAY. WITH EVERYTHING ELSE GOING ON...NEAR ADVISORY WINDS EVEN TODAY...HAVE LEFT THAT FOR ONCOMING SHIFTS IF THEY WANT TO DO SOMETHING FOR THE SNAKE RIVER PLAIN. WINDS ARE ALREADY MENTIONED IN ALL THE WINTER WEATHER ADVISORIES AND THE WARNING. THE PRECIPITATION DOES WANE ON SUNDAY AND SUNDAY NIGHT BEFORE THE NEXT LOW BREAKS FROM THE MAIN VORTEX THAT CONTINUES TO ROTATE NEARLY STATIONARY ON THE OREGON COAST. MESSICK .LONG TERM...MONDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. MODELS INDICATING PACIFIC SYSTEM MOVING THROUGH SOUTHEAST IDAHO MONDAY AND EXPECT WIDESPREAD PRECIPITATION WITH SNOW LEVELS IN THE 7 TO 8 THOUSAND FOOT RANGE. EXPECT SOME LINGERING SHOWERS TUESDAY THEN IT APPEARS A LONG PERIOD OF DRY WEATHER SETS IN WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. EXPECT A SLIGHT COOL DOWN TUESDAY BEHIND THE PACIFIC SYSTEM AS A WEAK COLD FRONT MOVES THROUGH...BUT OVERALL TEMPERATURES WILL STAY WELL ABOVE FEBRUARY NORMAL CONDITIONS THROUGH NEXT WEEK. GK && .AVIATION...MAINLY VFR CONDITIONS EXPECTED TODAY WITH SOME GUSTY WINDS POSSIBLE THIS AFTERNOON AT BYI...PIH AND IDA WITH MUCH WINDIER CONDITIONS ON SATURDAY AND 20 TO 30 KNOT SUSTAINED WINDS. EXPECT RAIN TO MOVE INTO SUN FIRST THIS AFTERNOON AND WILL LIKELY OVERSPREAD THE OTHER THREE SITES OVERNIGHT TONIGHT. COULD SEE OCCASIONAL MVFR CONDITIONS IN HEAVIER SHOWERS TONIGHT. GK && .PIH WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 5 AM MST SUNDAY ABOVE 7500 FEET FOR THE IDZ032. WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 5 AM MST SUNDAY ABOVE 7500 FEET FOR THE IDZ019-025. WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 5 AM MST SUNDAY BELOW 7500 FEET FOR THE IDZ018-031. WINTER STORM WARNING FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 5 AM MST SUNDAY ABOVE 7500 FEET FOR THE IDZ018-031. &&
2 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
The following snowfall was recorded at SNOTEL sites: Bear Canyon 14 inches, Mill Creek Summit 11 inches, Smiley Mountain 20 inches.
The following snowfall amounts were recorded at SNOTEL sites: Dollarhide Summit 13 inches, Galena Summit 10 inches, Lost Wood Divide 11 inches, Vienna Mine 17 inches.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Idaho in 2015Every state in 2015This day in weather historyWarnings in Idaho, February 2015
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 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 558129, 558130.