1 high wind, 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 Reno, NV wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Dec 1, 8:55 AM PST, 50 minutes earlier.
WESTERN NEVADA AND EASTERN CALIFORNIA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV
855 AM PST SAT DEC 1 2001
WINDS HAVE INCREASED OVER WESTERN NV AND NORTHEAST CA WITH GUSTS TO
52 MPH REPORTED AT DOYLE RAWS...RENO AIRPORT...AND 53 MPH FROM A
SPOTTER IN DOUGLAS COUNTY. 12Z MESO-ETA INDICATED 700 MB WINDS
BETWEEN 55 AND 75 KNOTS THROUGH MOST OF THE DAY FROM RENO-TAHOE
NORTHWARD WITH THE SPEEDS PEAKING BETWEEN 18Z AND 21Z. LAMP GUIDANCE
SURFACE WIND AND MESO-ETA 850 MB WINDS ALSO SHOW A MAXIMUM DURING
THE EARLY AFTERNOON HOURS. THEREFORE THE RENO-TAHOE AND LASSEN-
NORTHERN WASHOE ZONES WERE ALREADY UPDATED FOR AN UPGRADE TO HIGH
WIND WARNING UNTIL 3 PM.
SNOW CONTINUES TO FALL IN THE SNOW ADVISORY AREAS WITH THE WESTERN
NV VALLEYS SHADOWED OUT AT THIS TIME. SOME PRECIP IS SPILLING OVER
INTO WEST RENO FOOTHILLS BUT MOST OF THE STEADY ACCUMULATING SNOW
WILL REMAIN IN THE ADVISORY AREAS TODAY.
.REV...SNOW ADVISORY NVZ002-CAZ072-CAZ071 ABOVE 5000 FEET TODAY
HIGH WIND WARNING CAZ070-CAZ071-CAZ072-NVZ002-NVZ003-NVZ005
THROUGH 3 PM
WIND ADVISORY CAZ073 TODAY
WINTER STORM WATCH CAZ071 SUNDAY
WINTER STORM WATCH NVZ002-CAZ072-CAZ073 SUNDAY AND SUNDAY
NIGHT
HIGH WIND WATCH NVZ001-NVZ003-NVZ005-CAZ070 SUNDAY.The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Off duty NWS employee reported winds gusting 40-60 mph in the Red Rock area.
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, December 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: 5275642.