A winter storm came through southwest Idaho, bringing strong prefrontal winds with cold temperatures and snow accumulations. The combinations of hazards brought minor damage to buildings, dangerous driving conditions, and significantly slowed travel times.
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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 BOI wrote it up.
A winter storm came through southwest Idaho, bringing strong prefrontal winds with cold temperatures and snow accumulations. The combinations of hazards brought minor damage to buildings, dangerous driving conditions, and significantly slowed travel times.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 strong wind, 1 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
The ASOS at KBOI measured a wind gust of 46 knots.
Law enforcement reported 4.0 inches of snow overnight, along with impactful blowing and drifting snow on US Highway 20.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Idaho in 2024Every state in 2024This day in weather historyWarnings in Idaho, February 2024
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: 1163202, 1163201.