A strong cold front moved through eastern Idaho and brought localized heavy snow to the Lower Snake River Plain and the southeastern mountains.
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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 PIH wrote it up.
A strong cold front moved through eastern Idaho and brought localized heavy snow to the Lower Snake River Plain and the southeastern mountains.
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 Mar 4, 4:42 PM MST, 5 hours 18 minutes earlier.
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</html>The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
5 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
Around two feet of snow fell at Pomerelle Ski Resort with SNOTEL estimated amounts of 13.4 inches at Bostetter Ranger Station.
A foot of snow fell at Pebble Creek Ski Resort with an estimated 15.6 inches at the Sedgwick Peak SNOTEL site.
SNOTEL snow estimates were 13.1 inches at Emigrant Summit and 17.2 inches at Franklin Basin.
The Oxford Springs SNOTEL site received an estimated 12.4 inches of snow.
Four to 7 inches of snowfall was widespread in the Pocatello/Chubbuck area post cold frontal passage. 8 inches was reported in Pocatello and 5 and 7 inch reports came out of Chubbuck. On the morning after the storm on the 6th multiple car crashes including one roll over occurred on interstate 15 just north of Pocatello. Icy roads which re-froze overnight were thought to be contributing factors in the accidents.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Idaho in 2026Every state in 2026This day in weather historyWarnings in Idaho, March 2026
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 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 1327313, 1327316, 1327322, 1327319, 1327299.