1 high wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
The local office's own words before the first event, 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 the first event at Feb 19, 3:09 AM PST, 5 hours 21 minutes earlier.
MOJAVE DESERT/SOUTHERN GREAT BASIN AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 309 AM PST MON FEB 19 2001 SYNOPSIS...A PACIFIC LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM OFF THE NORTHERN CALIFORNIA COAST WILL APPROACH THE AREA TODAY SPREADING SNOW TO THE SIERRA AND A CHANCE OF SHOWERS TO SOUTH CENTRAL NEVADA. THE APPROACH OF THE STORM SYSTEM WILL ALSO HELP TO PRODUCE BREEZY TO LOCALLY WINDY CONDITIONS OVER MUCH OF THE REGION TODAY. THIS SYSTEM WILL SHIFT EAST TUESDAY LEAVING MOST AREAS DRY. DISCUSSION...IMPRESSIVE FRONTAL BAND APPROACHING CENTRAL CALIFORNIA COAST WITH QUITE A FEW LIGHTNING STRIKES. HOWEVER...SOUTH END OF COOLER TOPS CONTINUE TO LIFT NORTHEASTWARD LEAVING ONLY LOWER FRONTAL BAND CLOUDINESS FARTHER SOUTH. MAIN CONCERN TODAY IS WINTER STORM WATCH FOR OUR EASTERN SIERRA THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. MSO-ETA SEEMS TO HAVE A DECENT HANDLE ON SYSTEM AND SHOWS MOST FORCING BEING ON THE WEST SIDE OF THE SIERRA OR FARTHER NORTH. BASED ON SATELLITE TRENDS THIS SEEMS ON TRACK. MSO-ETA TIME SECTION FOR THE ASPENDELL AREA SHOWERS DECENT MOISTURE BUT MOSTLY POSITIVE (SINKING IMPLIED) OMEGA. MSO-ETA DOES SHOW A BRIEF PERIOD THIS AFTERNOON WHERE MODEST QPF DOES SPILL OVER THE SIERRA BUT NOT MUCH MORE. BASED ON COORDINATION WITH RENO (DOWNGRADE OF WINTER STORM WARNING TO ADVISORY FOR ADJACENT MONO COUNTY) WILL DROP HIGHLIGHT AND INDICATE AMOUNTS UP NEAR ADVISORY CRITERIA THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. ELSEWHERE...SCATTERED SHOWERS SHOULD COVER LOWER ELEVATIONS AS SYSTEM MOVES ACROSS WITH AN INCH OR TWO POSSIBLE IN THE HIGH COUNTRY. WILL KEEP CHANCE OF SNOW SHOWERS IN THE SPRING MOUNTAINS TONIGHT BUT CONFIDENCE IS NOT REAL HIGH. SLIGHT CHANCE IN NORTHWEST PLATEAU OF ARIZONA ALSO KEPT BUT NOT REAL ENTHUSIASTIC THERE EITHER. SYSTEM DOES ALLOW PRESSURES TO DROP MODESTLY ACROSS SOUTH CENTRAL NEVADA TODAY AND BREEZY WORDING MOST AREAS TODAY SHOULD BE OK EVEN IF SOME AREAS ONLY BLOW 10 TO 20 MPH. BORDERLINE WINDY IN SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY DESERTS BUT WILL KEEP WORDING FOR NOW BUT DROP THE GUSTY WORDING. IN THE EXTENDED PERIOD...SOME DISCREPANCY EXISTS WITH FRIDAY SYSTEM WITH EUROPEAN/UKMET BEING FARTHER NORTH AND MORE PROGRESSIVE BUT MRF /CANADIAN BEING DEEPER AND FARTHER SOUTH. THE NOGAPS IS SOMEWHERE IN BETWEEN. CURRENT EXTENDED HAS A CHANCE OF SHOWERS EITHER THURSDAY THROUGH SUNDAY OR FRIDAY THROUGH SUNDAY DEPENDING ON AREA. THE MODELS INDICATED A BREAK ON SATURDAY WITH BRIEF RIDGING OVER THE AREA BEFORE NEXT SYSTEM MOVES IN ON SUNDAY. NOT SURE YET IF I WILL BREAK THIS PERIOD OUT YET BASED ON POTENTIALLY PROGRESSIVE NATURE OF DEVELOPING PATTERN. SKRBAC .LAS...NONE.
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
High winds caused an accident on Interstate 40 near Kingman, AZ. A truck towing a trailer lost control causing the trailer to flip. The trailer was demolished and its contents was strewn across the highway closing several lanes for about an hour.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Arizona in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Arizona, February 2001
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5232539.