Hail Map for Minidoka, ID

Hail and Wind Damage Spotted near Minidoka, ID

Date / Time	Report Details
5/13/2024 5:01 PM MDT	At 501 pm mdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from 20 miles northeast of minidoka to 8 miles north of cold water rest area to 12 miles east of malta, moving east at 45 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts. Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees. Locations impacted include, american falls, malta, neeley, lake walcott, american falls reservoir, aberdeen, rockland, minidoka, cold water rest area, juniper, fort hall bannock peak, yale rest area, massacre rocks, bear trap airport, sweetzer summit, pilar butte, idahome, holbrook, sublett reservoir, and roy.
5/13/2024 4:49 PM MDT	Measured at the hawley union pacific mesonet sit in blaine county ID, 3.7 miles WNW of Minidoka, ID
5/13/2024 4:34 PM MDT	Svrpih the national weather service in pocatello has issued a * severe thunderstorm warning for, southeastern blaine county in central idaho, northwestern oneida county in southeastern idaho, power county in southeastern idaho, southwestern bingham county in southeastern idaho, eastern cassia county in southeastern idaho, southeastern minidoka county in south central idaho, * until 530 pm mdt. * at 433 pm mdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from 13 miles northwest of minidoka to 6 miles east of rupert to near elba, moving east at 45 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts. expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees
5/24/2023 4:53 PM MDT	The severe thunderstorm warning for southeastern blaine, northwestern power and southeastern minidoka counties will expire at 500 pm mdt, the storm which prompted the warning has weakened below severe limits, and no longer poses an immediate threat to life or property. therefore, the warning will be allowed to expire. however small hail and gusty winds are still possible with this thunderstorm.
5/24/2023 4:28 PM MDT	At 427 pm mdt, a severe thunderstorm was located over minidoka, or 8 miles northwest of lake walcott, moving northeast at 25 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees. locations impacted include, minidoka, bear trap airport and pilar butte. hail threat, radar indicated max hail size, 1. 00 in wind threat, radar indicated max wind gust, 60 mph.
5/24/2023 4:01 PM MDT	At 400 pm mdt, a severe thunderstorm was located near rupert, moving northeast at 20 mph (trained weather spotters. golf ball size hail was reported with this storm in burley). Hazards include golf ball size hail and 60 mph wind gusts. People and animals outdoors will be injured. expect hail damage to roofs, siding, windows, and vehicles. Expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
5/24/2023 3:52 PM MDT	At 352 pm mdt, a severe thunderstorm was located over rupert, moving northeast at 25 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include ping pong ball size hail and 60 mph wind gusts. People and animals outdoors will be injured. expect hail damage to roofs, siding, windows, and vehicles. expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees. locations impacted include, rupert, paul, declo, minidoka and acequia. hail threat, radar indicated max hail size, 1. 50 in wind threat, radar indicated max wind gust, 60 mph.
5/24/2023 3:31 PM MDT	At 330 pm mdt, a severe thunderstorm was located over heyburn, moving northeast at 20 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include ping pong ball size hail and 60 mph wind gusts. People and animals outdoors will be injured. expect hail damage to roofs, siding, windows, and vehicles. expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees. Locations impacted include, burley, rupert, heyburn, paul, minidoka and acequia.
5/24/2023 3:14 PM MDT	At 314 pm mdt, a severe thunderstorm was located near burley, moving northeast at 25 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and half dollar size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees. locations impacted include, burley, rupert, heyburn, paul, minidoka and acequia. hail threat, radar indicated max hail size, 1. 25 in wind threat, radar indicated max wind gust, 60 mph.
5/24/2023 2:57 PM MDT	At 257 pm mdt, a severe thunderstorm was located 8 miles southeast of hazelton, or 12 miles west of burley, moving northeast at 30 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and half dollar size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
5/2/2022 5:48 PM MDT	At 547 pm mdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near darlington to 7 miles northwest of central inl to 9 miles northwest of springfield to rockland, moving east at 40 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 70 mph wind gusts and penny size hail. Expect considerable tree damage. damage is likely to mobile homes, roofs, and outbuildings. locations impacted include, pocatello, american falls, arco, mackay, lake walcott, american falls reservoir, grouse, neeley, chubbuck, aberdeen, rockland, minidoka, atomic city, darlington, southeast inl, southwest inl, fort hall bannock creek lodge, pingree, pocatello airport and cold water rest area. thunderstorm damage threat, considerable hail threat, radar indicated max hail size, 0. 75 in wind threat, observed max wind gust, 70 mph.
5/2/2022 5:33 PM MDT	At 533 pm mdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near darlington to 7 miles northwest of southwest inl to 13 miles west of springfield to near rockland, moving east at 40 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 70 mph wind gusts and penny size hail. Expect considerable tree damage. Damage is likely to mobile homes, roofs, and outbuildings.
5/2/2022 4:31 PM MDT	At 431 pm mdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from 19 miles southeast of richfield to near rupert to 7 miles southwest of declo, moving east at 60 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and penny size hail. expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees
5/16/2021 7:54 PM MDT	The severe thunderstorm warning for southeastern blaine, northwestern power, southeastern lincoln, northern cassia, southwestern bingham and minidoka counties will expire at 800 pm mdt, the storms which prompted the warning have weakened below severe limits, and no longer pose an immediate threat to life or property. therefore, the warning will be allowed to expire. however gusty winds are still possible with these thunderstorms.
5/16/2021 7:38 PM MDT	At 736 pm mdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from taber to 14 miles north of hazelton, moving north at 35 mph (trained weather spotters). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts. Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees. Locations impacted include, burley, rupert, heyburn, lake walcott, paul, declo, albion, minidoka, cold water rest area, acequia, yale rest area, massacre rocks, bear trap airport, kimama, pilar butte, idahome and interstate 84 and 86 junction.
5/16/2021 6:54 PM MDT	At 652 pm mdt, very strong winds associated with thunderstorm outflows were located along a line extending from near chubbuck to 10 miles southwest of burley, moving north at 35 mph (trained weather spotters). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts. Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees. Blowing dust may suddenly reduce visibility to near zero.
7/23/2020 7:01 PM MDT	At 700 pm mdt, severe winds associated with thunderstorm outflows were located along a line extending from 6 miles northeast of little wood reservoir to 11 miles southeast of carey to 14 miles northwest of minidoka, moving east at 35 mph (public reported damage to trees and roofs in shoshone). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts. Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees. Locations impacted include, carey, little wood reservoir, picabo, minidoka, craters of the moon, kimama and laidlaw corrals airport.
7/23/2020 6:38 PM MDT	At 636 pm mdt, severe winds associated with thunderstorm outflows were located along a line extending from near bellevue to 7 miles south of carey to 17 miles southeast of richfield, moving east at 40 mph (public). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts. Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees. Locations impacted include, hailey, carey, little wood reservoir, picabo, bellevue, richfield, minidoka, craters of the moon, gannett, kimama, garfield ranger station and laidlaw corrals airport.
7/23/2020 6:25 PM MDT	At 623 pm mdt, severe winds associated with thunderstorm outflows were located along a line extending from near hailey to 9 miles north of richfield to 14 miles southeast of shoshone, moving east at 35 mph (public). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts. expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees
4/30/2020 5:40 PM MDT	At 539 pm mdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from 10 miles south of craters of the moon to 6 miles northeast of minidoka to 7 miles southwest of albion, moving northeast at 55 mph. gusts in excess of 50 mph have been reported by wind sensors in this area (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts. Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees. Locations impacted include, burley, rupert, american falls, heyburn, lake walcott, neeley, oakley reservoir, western american falls reservoir, oakley, declo, albion, minidoka, cold water rest area, acequia, yale rest area, massacre rocks, mt harrison, idahome and interstate 84 and 86 junction.
4/30/2020 5:17 PM MDT	At 516 pm mdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from 13 miles southeast of carey to 6 miles west of minidoka to near oakley, moving northeast at 55 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts. expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees
10/19/2019 3:23 PM MDT	The severe thunderstorm warning for southeastern blaine, northwestern power, north central cassia, southwestern bingham and southeastern minidoka counties will expire at 330 pm mdt, the storms which prompted the warning have moved out of the area. therefore, the warning will be allowed to expire. however gusty winds are still possible with these thunderstorms.
10/19/2019 3:17 PM MDT	At 315 pm mdt, a severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from 14 miles southwest of atomic city to near cold water rest area, moving east at 40 mph (radar indicated and surface observation confirmed. the minidoka irl weather station reported a wind gust to 60 mph at 250 pm mdt). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts. Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees. Locations impacted include, lake walcott, minidoka, massacre rocks, bear trap airport and pilar butte.
10/19/2019 2:52 PM MDT	At 251 pm mdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from 18 miles southeast of craters of the moon to near lake walcott, moving east at 50 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 70 mph wind gusts. a 67 mph wind gust was recorded at the valley interchange itd site west of burley. Expect considerable tree damage. Damage is likely to mobile homes, roofs, and outbuildings.
5/26/2018 4:48 PM MDT	At 447 pm mdt, a severe thunderstorm was located just northeast of acequia, moving north at 30 mph (radar indicated. nickel size hail was reported with the storm in rupert). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees. Locations impacted include, rupert, minidoka and acequia.
5/26/2018 4:36 PM MDT	At 436 pm mdt, a severe thunderstorm was located over rupert, moving north at 40 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
5/20/2018 2:38 PM MDT	The severe thunderstorm warning for southeastern blaine, northern cassia and southeastern minidoka counties will expire at 245 pm mdt, the storm which prompted the warning has weakened below severe limits, and no longer poses an immediate threat to life or property. therefore the warning will be allowed to expire. however heavy rain is still possible with this thunderstorm.
5/20/2018 2:07 PM MDT	At 207 pm mdt, a severe thunderstorm was located near rupert, moving north at 15 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include quarter size hail and very heavy rain. damage to vehicles is expected
9/13/2016 9:57 PM MDT	The severe thunderstorm warning for eastern lincoln, northeastern cassia, southeastern custer, southwestern bingham, northwestern power, blaine, northwestern bannock, southwestern butte and minidoka counties will expire at 1000 pm mdt, the storms which prompted the warning have weakened. therefore the warning will be allowed to expire. however, wind over 40mph are still possible.
9/13/2016 9:28 PM MDT	At 926 pm mdt, doppler radar and mesonet observations indicated outflow winds producing damaging winds in excess of 60 mph. these storms were located along a line extending from near gannett to near lake walcott, and moving northeast at 35 mph.
7/10/2016 3:19 PM MDT	At 317 pm mdt, doppler radar indicated a severe thunderstorm capable of producing damaging winds in excess of 60 mph. this storm was located near richfield, or 13 miles east of shoshone. this storm was moving northeast around 50 mph. locations impacted include, rupert, carey, lake walcott, richfield, minidoka, craters of the moon, acequia, bear trap airport, kimama and laidlaw corrals airport. these storms have produced wind gusts up to 73 mph at tom cat summit.
7/10/2016 2:55 PM MDT	At 252 pm mdt, doppler radar indicated severe thunderstorm outflow winds in excess of 60 mph. thunderstorms outflow winds of 62 mph were measured at richfield.
8/14/2015 9:26 PM MDT	At 925 pm mdt, doppler radar indicated a line of severe thunderstorms capable of producing damaging winds in excess of 60 mph. these storms were located along a line extending from 14 miles south of richfield to 6 miles northwest of paul to 7 miles southeast of oakley, moving east at 40 mph. locations impacted include, burley, rupert, heyburn, malta, oakley reservoir, lake walcott, paul, oakley, richfield, declo, albion, minidoka, elba, almo, dietrich, acequia, interstate 84 and 86 junction, bridge, kimama and mt harrison.
8/14/2015 9:00 PM MDT	At 858 pm mdt, doppler radar indicated a line of severe thunderstorms capable of producing damaging winds in excess of 60 mph. these storms were located along a line extending from near jerome to eden to 10 miles southwest of oakley reservoir, and moving east at 40 mph. 61 mph winds were reported in twin falls at 853 pm.
8/14/2015 6:27 PM MDT	At 626 pm mdt, doppler radar indicated a severe thunderstorm capable of producing damaging winds in excess of 60 mph. this storm was located 12 miles north of hazelton, or 20 miles northwest of burley, and moving northeast at 30 mph.
8/5/2015 1:44 PM MDT	A severe thunderstorm warning remains in effect until 200 pm mdt for bingham. southwestern jefferson. northwestern bannock. southeastern blaine. northeastern cassia. southeastern butte. western bonneville. power and eastern minidoka counties. at 143 pm mdt. Doppler radar indicated a line of severe thunderstorms capable of producing destructive winds in excess of 70.
8/5/2015 1:44 PM MDT	A severe thunderstorm warning remains in effect until 200 pm mdt for bingham. southwestern jefferson. northwestern bannock. southeastern blaine. northeastern cassia. southeastern butte. western bonneville. power and eastern minidoka counties. at 143 pm mdt. Doppler radar indicated a line of severe thunderstorms capable of producing destructive winds in excess of 70.
8/5/2015 1:44 PM MDT	At 143 pm mdt, doppler radar indicated a line of severe thunderstorms capable of producing destructive winds in excess of 70 mph. these storms were located along a line extending from 18 miles south of southwest inl to 9 miles west of springfield to 10 miles north of cold water rest area, moving east at 50 mph. locations impacted include, pocatello, blackfoot, american falls, lake walcott, american falls reservoir, neeley, chubbuck, aberdeen, rockland, minidoka, atomic city, fort hall buffalo lodge, springfield, fort hall bannock peak, rockford, pingree, fort hall bannock creek lodge and rose.
8/5/2015 1:30 PM MDT	At 129 pm mdt, doppler radar indicated a line of severe thunderstorms capable of producing winds in excess of 70 mph. these storms were located along a line extending from 19 miles southeast of craters of the moon to 14 miles northwest of aberdeen to near lake walcott, moving northeast at 45 mph. locations impacted include, pocatello, blackfoot, rupert, american falls, lake walcott, american falls reservoir, neeley, chubbuck, aberdeen, rockland, minidoka, atomic city, fort hall buffalo lodge, springfield, fort hall bannock peak, taber, rockford, pingree, fort hall bannock creek lodge and rose.
8/5/2015 1:16 PM MDT	At 115 pm mdt, doppler radar indicated a line of severe thunderstorms capable of producing damaging winds in excess of 60 mph. these storms were located along a line extending from 20 miles south of craters of the moon to 18 miles northeast of minidoka to 6 miles west of lake walcott, and moving northeast at 45 mph.
7/31/2013 7:35 PM MDT	Maximum gust from coxs well arl sit in blaine county ID, 20 miles SSW of Minidoka, ID
8/26/2012 8:35 PM MDT	Storm damage reported in minidoka county ID, 6.1 miles SE of Minidoka, ID