7 mph.
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
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 episode as NWS REV wrote it up.
A Desert Research Institute automated sensor in Stead recorded a wind gust of 62.7 mph.
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 14, 9:00 PM PST, 3 hours 30 minutes earlier.
WESTERN NEVADA AND EASTERN CALIFORNIA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV 900 PM PST FRI DEC 14 2001 A SURFACE HIGH HAS DEVELOPED OVER THE GREAT BASIN UNDER COLD NORTH WINDS ALOFT. LIGHT UPSLOPE SNOW ALONG THE EAST SLOPES OF THE SIERRA IN MONO COUNTY SHOULD DIMINISH SLOWLY OVERNIGHT WITH DRYING IN WEAK SUBSIDENCE. OTHERWISE THE SATELLITE SHOWS PARTIAL CLEARING WITH PATCHY MID CLOUDS IN THE STRONG NORTH FLOW. TEMPERATURES OVER MUCH OF NORTHEAST CA TO WESTERN NV ARE ALREADY IN THE TEENS AND LOW 20S. SOME SINGLE DIGIT LOWS ARE LIKELY...ESPECIALLY WHERE THERE IS A SNOW COVER. WEAK OVER RUNNING MOVES ACROSS NORTHERN CA SATURDAY. THE MODELS SUGGEST SLOWER EASTWARD PROGRESS OF ANY LIGHT OVER RUNNING PRECIPITATION AND ALSO PERHAPS NOT QUITE AS FAR SOUTH AS IN THE CURRENT FORECASTS. SOME SPOTTY LIGHT SNOW COULD CONTINUE OVER WESTERN NEVADA SATURDAY NIGHT WITH WEAK WARM ADVECTION INTO MOIST LOWER LEVELS NORTH OF ABOUT HIGHWAY 50. CONSIDERABLE CLOUD COVER IN THE AREA NORTH OF HIGHWAY 50 SHOULD HOLD UP THE LOWS SATURDAY NIGHT A LITTLE. THE LOWER LEVEL AIRMASS DRIES IN WEST WINDS ALOFT SUNDAY WHILE SKIES REMAIN PARTLY CLOUDY WITH VARIABLE MID AND HIGH LEVEL RH. OSTERMAN. .REV...NONE.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
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: 5275740.