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Flood — Lemhi, ID

May 7, 2017

A few warm days and nights to increase snowmelt, followed by a rain event that had several hours of rain over the Salmon River Basin culminated in high flows the evening of May 6th. Twelve hour precipitation at the Salmon RAWS was recorded at 0.82���, with values up stream in the basin ranging from around 0.15��� to 0.75���. There was widespread light rain with some very wet, fast moving showers and thunderstorms embedded. Also, the Pahsimeroi River upstream along the county bo

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 698158). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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