1 heavy snow, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 Elko, NV wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 6, 8:15 PM PST, 45 minutes earlier.
NORTHERN GREAT BASIN FORECAST DISCUSSION...CORRECTED WATCH/ADVISORY
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE ELKO NV
915 PM PDT FRI APR 6 2001
SHORT TERM...COMPLEX WEATHER SITUATION SETTING UP ACROSS THE WEST
THIS EVENING AS UPPER LOW CONTINUES OFF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST COAST.
UPPER LEVEL JET STREAK NOTED MOVING THROUGH BASE OF TROUGH INTO
SOUTHERN/CENTRAL NEVADA THIS EVENING. DYNAMICS ASSOCIATED WITH THIS
JET FEATURE WERE SUFFICIENT TO PRODUCE LIFT AND A DEVELOPING BAND OF
SHOWERS ALONG DEEPENING SURFACE TROUGH ACROSS CENTRAL AND NORTH
CENTRAL NEVADA. A STRONG JET WAS ANALYZED ON THE BACK SIDE OF UPPER
LOW AND A QUICK LOOK AT THE 07/00Z ETA/NGM SUGGESTS ONLY SLIGHT
DIFFERENCES SINCE THIS MORNING...TRACKING MAIN JET ACROSS SOUTHERN
NEVADA SATURDAY. MAIN PROBLEM THIS EVENING IS DEVELOPING BAND OF
PRECIPITATION WITH LEADING VORT MAXIMUM. AM CONCERNED THAT BEST
CHANCE OF SNOW WILL OCCUR LATE TONIGHT WITH INITIAL SYSTEM AND
FURTHER NORTH WHILE MAIN JET ENERGY SATURDAY STAYS MAINLY SOUTH OF
AREA...CLIPPING THE EAST CENTRAL. WILL ISSUE ADVISORY FROM LANDER AND
EUREKA COUNTIES INTO ELKO COUNTY AND KEEP A WATCH UP FOR WHITE PINE.
HOHMANN
.EKO...SNOW ADVISORY TONIGHT AND SA4TURDAY MORNING NVZ032-034-036>037
WINTER STORM WATCH SATURDAY AND SATURDAY NIGHT FOR NVZ035.The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
9 inches of new snow fell overnight at Wildhorse reservoir.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Nevada in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Nevada, April 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: 5239003.