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Excessive Heat Watch 6, NWS Las Vegas, NV

August 13, 2021Clark County, Nye County, Nevada; Inyo County, San Bernardino County, California

NWS Las Vegas, NV issued this excessive heat watch at Aug 13, 2021, 2:37 AM PDT for Clark County, Nye County, Nevada; Inyo County, San Bernardino County, California. It took effect at Aug 15, 2021, 10:00 AM PDT. It was in force for .

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 13, 2021, 2:37 AM PDT (09:37 UTC)
In effect from: Aug 15, 2021, 10:00 AM PDT
Expired: Aug 13, 2021, 2:18 PM PDT
In force
Issued by: NWS Las Vegas, NV

Counties Inyo County, CA, San Bernardino County, CA, Clark County, NV, Nye County, NV

The radar

The Las Vegas radar (KESX), 146 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 09:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this excessive heat watch went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Las Vegas, NV wrote its last area forecast discussion before this excessive heat watch went out at Aug 13, 2:22 AM PDT, 15 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 13, 2:22 AM PDT, 15 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 12, 10:37 PM PDT, 4 hours before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Las Vegas, NV issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 12, 7:06 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	VEF	Clark	39 min
Aug 12, 7:40 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	VEF	Clark	50 min
Aug 12, 7:46 PM PDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	VEF	Clark	3 hr
Aug 12, 8:17 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	VEF	Clark	58 min
Aug 12, 8:42 PM PDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	VEF	Clark	3 hr
Aug 12, 9:10 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	VEF	Clark	50 min
Aug 13, 2:18 PM PDT	Excessive Heat Warning	VEF	Clark, Nye	3 days
Aug 13, 2:23 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	VEF	Clark	52 min
Aug 13, 2:46 PM PDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	VEF	San Bernardino	3 hr
Aug 13, 3:20 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	VEF	San Bernardino	40 min
Aug 13, 4:04 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	VEF	San Bernardino	41 min
Aug 13, 4:55 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	VEF	San Bernardino	50 min
Aug 12, 5:24 PM PDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	VEF	Mohave	111 min
Aug 12, 5:43 PM PDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	VEF	Mohave	3 hr
Aug 12, 8:54 PM PDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	VEF	Mohave	3 hr
Aug 12, 10:56 PM PDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	VEF	Mohave	3 hr

Nearby

Excessive Heat Watches in Nevada, 2021 Excessive Heat Watches in California, 2021 Every excessive heat watch in 2021

Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.