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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 59, NWS Las Vegas, NV

August 31, 2026Lincoln County, Nevada

NWS Las Vegas, NV issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 31, 2026, 3:34 PM PDT for Lincoln County, Nevada. It was in force for 41 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 31, 2026, 3:34 PM PDT (22:34 UTC)
Expired: Aug 31, 2026, 4:15 PM PDT
In force: 41 min
Issued by: NWS Las Vegas, NV
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 1.0 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Lincoln County, NV

The radar

The Cedar City radar (KICX), 178 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:36 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

Open the radar archive at this moment

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

The nearest sounding before it

Las Vegas, NV (KVEF), launched 12:00Z, 10.6 hours before the alert went out and 153 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 303 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -202 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 2712 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 34 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 48 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 66 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm 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 severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 31, 11:28 AM PDT, 4 hours 6 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 31, 11:28 AM PDT, 4 hours 6 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 31, 12:19 PM PDT, 3 hours 15 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Las Vegas NV
1219 PM PDT Mon Aug 31 2026

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

1110 AM     Hail             2 SSW Caliente          37.59N 114.53W
08/31/2026  M1.00 Inch       Lincoln            NV   Park/Forest Srvc

            One inch hail reported at Kershaw-Ryan State
            Park.

&&

DSB

Local storm report, Aug 31, 2:37 PM PDT, 57 minutes before

Preliminary Local Storm Report
National Weather Service Las Vegas NV
237 PM PDT Mon Aug 31 2026

..TIME...   ...EVENT...      ...CITY LOCATION...     ...LAT.LON...
..DATE...   ....MAG....      ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
            ..REMARKS..

0730 PM     Hail             9 NNE Desert Hills      34.66N 114.29W
08/30/2026  M1.00 Inch       Mohave             AZ   Public

            One inch hail reported in Havasu Heights.
            Time estimated by radar.

&&

SOULAT

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 31, 11:26 AM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	VEF	Clark	49 min
Aug 31, 4:33 PM PDT	Areal Flood Advisory	VEF	Lincoln	3 hr
Aug 30, 6:47 PM PDT	Areal Flood Advisory	VEF	Mohave	3 hr
Aug 30, 7:17 PM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	VEF	Mohave	43 min
Aug 30, 7:21 PM PDT	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	VEF	Mohave	3 hr
Aug 30, 8:39 PM PDT	Flood Watch	VEF	Mohave	27 hr
Aug 31, 9:13 AM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	VEF	Mohave	32 min
Aug 31, 9:50 AM PDT	Areal Flood Advisory	VEF	Mohave	3 hr
Aug 31, 10:43 AM PDT	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	VEF	Mohave	47 min

Nearby

Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in Nevada, 2026 Every severe thunderstorm warning in 2026

Sources

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