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 Dec 14, 3:30 AM PST, 4 hours 40 minutes earlier.
MOJAVE DESERT/SOUTHERN GREAT BASIN AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 330 AM PST FRI DEC 14 2001 SYNOPSIS...A FAST MOVING STORM SYSTEM WILL MOVE ACROSS CALIFORNIA AND NEVADA TODAY BRINGING SNOW TO THE MOUNTAINS AND A CHANCE OF SHOWERS TO THE LOWER ELEVATIONS ALONG WITH WINDY CONDITIONS. THE COLDEST AIR OF THE SEASON WILL FOLLOW BEHIND THIS SYSTEM ON SATURDAY ALONG WITH STRONG NORTH WINDS. TEMPERATURES ON SATURDAY WILL BE ABOUT 10 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL. DISCUSSION...TROUGH AXIS MOVING INLAND AS OF 3 AM WITH SNOW MOVING INTO THE SOUTHERN SIERRA. STORM PRETTY MUCH ON TRACK AND WILL MOVE INTO EASTERN NEVADA THIS AFTERNOON AND INTO UTAH TONIGHT. LOOKS LIKE MOISTURE IS STILL LACKING ALTHOUGH THIS SYSTEM IS VERY ENERGETIC. EXPECT SOME SNOW ACCUMULATION IN HIGHER ELEVATIONS OF FORECAST AREA BUT NOT ENOUGH FOR ANY ADVISORIES OR WARNINGS. WILL KEEP GENERALLY SCATTERED POPS FOR LOWER ELEVATIONS. BIGGER CONCERN TODAY IS WINDS. GOOD SUBSIDENCE INDICATED AT TIMES TODAY OVER EAST SLOPES OF SIERRA AND OWENS VALLEY AND ALSO EAST SLOPES OF SPRING MOUNTAINS WITH 60 KNOT WEST WINDS AT ABOUT 600 MB THIS MORNING. STRONG NORTHERLY JET ALSO MOVES INTO WESTERN INYO AND SAN BERNARDINO COUNTIES THIS AFTERNOON. WILL GO WITH WIND ADVISORY FOR THE ABOVE MENTIONED AREAS FOR TODAY. SNOW SHOWERS WILL LINGER OVER NORTHERN MOHAVE COUNTY TONIGHT AND OVER NORTHERN AND EASTERN LINCOLN COUNTY THIS EVENING. OTHERWISE WILL GO WITH PARTLY CLOUDY SKIES TONIGHT. STRONG NORTHERLY GRADIENT DEVELOPS MOST ZONES AND CONTINUES THROUGH SATURDAY SO WILL KEEP WINDY WORDING WITH STRONGEST WINDS ALONG COLORADO RIVER. RIDGING DEVELOPS OVER THE AREA SUNDAY INTO MONDAY WITH GENERALLY PARTLY CLOUDY SKIES AND A WARMING TREND. AVN AND MRF STILL BRINGING A WEAKENING TROUGH ACROSS NORTHERN NEVADA TUESDAY SO CHANCE OF SHOWERS IN ORDER FOR MOUNTAINS OF NORTHERN PORTION OF FORECAST AREA. THIS COULD BE MAINLY A MONDAY NIGHT/TUESDAY MORNING EVENT BUT WILL NOT GET THAT CUTE WITH IT THIS EARLY. MRF INDICATES A WEAK TROUGH THURSDAY BUT WILL KEEP IT DRY AND JUST GO WITH MOSTLY CLOUDY NORTH. JMH .LAS...A HIGH WIND WARNING HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR THE SPRING MOUNTAINS OF SOUTHERN NEVADA FOR TODAY. A WIND ADVISORY HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY AND WESTERN INYO COUNTY IN CALIFORNIA FOR TODAY. PLEASE SEE LATEST STATEMENT FOR DETAILS.
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Very strong winds were reported in the town of Aspendell by a trained spotter. His wind equipment was destroyed by the winds and the house shook for several hours. He estimated wind speeds over 90 mph.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in California in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in California, December 2001
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