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Dust Storm Warning 4, NWS Las Vegas, NV

August 23, 2025Mohave County, Arizona

NWS Las Vegas, NV issued this dust storm warning at Aug 23, 2025, 5:41 PM MST for Mohave County, Arizona. It was in force for 49 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Aug 23, 2025, 5:41 PM MST (00:41 UTC)
Expired: Aug 23, 2025, 6:30 PM MST
In force: 49 min
Issued by: NWS Las Vegas, NV
Area: Storm-based polygon

County Mohave County, AZ

The radar

The Las Vegas radar (KESX), 102 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 00:41 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 dust storm warning 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 dust storm warning went out at Aug 23, 4:00 PM MST, 1 hour 41 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 23, 4:00 PM MST, 1 hour 41 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 23, 5:25 PM MST, 16 minutes 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 23, 8:38 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	VEF	Clark	37 min
Aug 23, 9:31 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	VEF	Clark	44 min
Aug 24, 1:15 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	VEF	Clark	60 min
Aug 24, 2:47 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	VEF	Clark	118 min
Aug 23, 6:56 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	VEF	Mohave	3 hr
Aug 24, 11:32 AM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	VEF	Mohave	43 min
Aug 24, 11:34 AM MST	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	VEF	Mohave	3 hr
Aug 24, 12:16 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	VEF	Mohave	44 min
Aug 24, 1:05 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	VEF	Mohave	3 hr
Aug 24, 3:59 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	VEF	Mohave	3 hr

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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.