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Winter Storm Warning 6, NWS Las Vegas, NV

October 12, 2025Inyo County, California

NWS Las Vegas, NV issued this winter storm warning at Oct 12, 2025, 11:53 PM PDT for Inyo County, California. It took effect at Oct 13, 2025, 5:00 PM PDT. It was in force for 30 hr. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Oct 12, 2025, 11:53 PM PDT (06:53 UTC)
In effect from: Oct 13, 2025, 5:00 PM PDT
Expired: Oct 14, 2025, 10:54 PM PDT
In force: 30 hr
Issued by: NWS Las Vegas, NV

County Inyo County, CA

The radar

The Edwards AFB radar (KEYX), 158 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 06:57 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this winter 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 winter storm warning went out at Oct 12, 3:40 PM PDT, 8 hours 13 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Oct 12, 3:40 PM PDT, 8 hours 13 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
Oct 13, 12:25 PM PDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	VEF	Clark	3 hr
Oct 13, 2:23 PM PDT	Winter Weather Advisory	VEF	Clark, Lincoln, Nye	33 hr
Oct 13, 12:02 AM PDT	Freeze Watch	VEF		24 hr
Oct 13, 9:29 AM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	VEF	San Bernardino	46 min

Nearby

Winter Storm Warnings in California, 2025 Every winter storm warning in 2025

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.