Thunderstorms brought severe weather to southeast Idaho.
Every event with a place to put it. 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 PIH wrote it up.
Thunderstorms brought severe weather to 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.
NWS Pocatello, ID wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 13, 2:51 AM MST, 10 hours 53 minutes earlier.
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</html>Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service Pocatello ID
244 PM MDT Wed Jul 13 2022
IDZ054-055-058-132115-
Eastern Magic Valley ID-Marsh and Arbon Highlands ID-
Lower Snake River Plain ID-
244 PM MDT Wed Jul 13 2022
...A strong thunderstorm will impact portions of northwestern
Bannock, central Power and southwestern Bingham Counties through 315
PM MDT...
At 244 PM MDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm 7
miles northwest of Neeley, moving northeast at 55 mph.
HAZARD...Winds in excess of 30 mph and pea size hail.
SOURCE...Radar indicated.
IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
unsecured objects. Minor damage to outdoor objects is
possible.
Locations impacted include...
American Falls, Neeley, American Falls Reservoir, Aberdeen,
Springfield, Pocatello Airport, Sterling and Massacre Rocks.
PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
If on or near American Falls Reservoir, get out of the water and
move indoors or inside a vehicle. Remember, lightning can strike out
to 10 miles from the parent thunderstorm. If you can hear thunder,
you are close enough to be struck by lightning. Move to safe shelter
now! Do not be caught on the water in a thunderstorm.
&&
LAT...LON 4266 11302 4282 11321 4316 11275 4288 11247
TIME...MOT...LOC 2044Z 235DEG 47KT 4279 11300
MAX HAIL SIZE...0.25 IN
MAX WIND GUST...30 MPH
DMHThe Pocatello radar (KSFX), 112 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:45 UTC.
10 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
A 64 mph thunderstorm outflow wind measured north of Owinza.
A 58 mph thunderstorm outflow wind measured at Telegraph Hill ITD site.
One inch hail fell near Thunder Ridge High School. Photograph provided.
A 61 mph wind gust from thunderstorm outflow measured at the Kettle Butte ITD site.
A 60 mph thunderstorm outflow wind was measured at the Rover ARL site.
Portion of tree downed by a thunderstorm wind in Shelley.
Large tree limbs downed on power lne on South Boulevard near E 23rd St in Idaho Falls. Power outage for 1,400 customers reported by Idaho Power.
A 64 mph wind gust measured at the Canyon Creek mesonet site.
Thunderstorm winds felled a tree which fell on a power line starting a small wildfire.
A 68 mph thunderstorm outflow wind was recorded at the Ririe mesonet site.
The COOP observer in Bern estimated a 60 mph thunderstorm outflow wind.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Idaho in 2022Every state in 2022This day in weather historyWarnings in Idaho, July 2022
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: 1047624, 1047630, 1047633, 1047647, 1047651, 1047654, 1047661, 1047664, 1047665, 1047666, 1047669.