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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 episode as NWS REV wrote it up.
Mt. Rose Ski Area reported 18-24 inches of snow in 24 hours
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 Feb 9, 2:45 AM PST, 5 hours 45 minutes earlier.
WESTERN NEVADA AND EASTERN CALIFORNIA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV
245 AM PST FRI FEB 9 2001
UPPER LOW SPINNING OFF THE OREGON COAST SHOWING UP NICELY ON IR AND
WATER VAPOR SATELLITE LOOPS. LIGHTNING EVEN SHOWED UP ALONG THE
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA COAST. BAND OF CLOUDS OUT AHEAD OF THIS PASSED
THROUGH THE CWA AROUND MIDNIGHT AND LOVELOCK GOT A BRIEF SNOW SHOWER
OUT IT. UPPER LOW WILL WEAKEN AND SINK SOUTH TO A POSITION OFF THE
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA COAST THIS AFTERNOON. THIS WILL GIVE A LITTLE
BETTER DYNAMICS AND OROGRAPHICS FOR THE SIERRA SO WILL GO AHEAD AND
UPGRADE THE WATCH TO A BORDERLINE WARNING AS THIS STILL APPEARS TO BE
A MORE WEST SIDE EVENT AND EXTEND IT INTO TONIGHT AS THE LOW OPENS UP
INTO A TROF AND MOVES INTO WESTERN NEVADA. WILL TRIM BACK THE
ACCUMULATIONS FOR THE LEE OF THE SIERRA BASED ON SHADOW AFFECT AND QPF
FROM THE WS-ETA MODEL. ONLY A SHORT RESPITE LATER ON SATURDAY AS
ANOTHER LOW IS POISED OFF THE NORTHERN WASHINGTON COAST SATURDAY
AFTERNOON. IT TAKES A PATH SOUTHWARD JUST ABOUT LIKE THE CURRENT ONE
EXCEPT IT HAS A LITTLE MORE OVER WATER TRAJECTORY THUS A LITTLE MORE
MOIST. ITS ALSO COLDER AND HAS A LITTLE STRONGER JET WITH IT. ITS ALSO
MOVING SLOWER AS IT CARVES OUT A BROAD AREA OF LOW PRESSURE OVER THE
AREA ON SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY. WILL MOST LIKELY NEED A
WATCH/WARNING FOR THIS SYSTEM BUT WILL LET DAY SHIFT DEAL WITH THAT.
RIDGE BEGINS BUILDING OUT AROUND 140 WEST SUNDAY AND FORCES THE LOW TO
MOVE SOUTHWEST ON MONDAY AS THE RIDGE TILTS INTO THE PACIFIC
NORTHWEST. MEDIUM RANGE MODELS SHOWING SOME DIFFERENCES FROM TUESDAY
ON BUT SEEMS TO BE SOME CONSENSUS THAT THIS WILL FINALLY EJECT
EASTWARD ACROSS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA/NEVADA ON WEDNESDAY RESULTING IN
WEAK RIDGING BEGINNING ON THURSDAY. THIS IS IN LINE WITH CURRENT
EXTENDED FORECAST AND WILL MAKE NO CHANGES.
.REV...WINTER STORM WARNING TODAY AND TONIGHT ZONES 71...72...73...2
LAKE WIND ADVISORY PYRAMID LAKE TODAY.The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 heavy snow. 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, 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: 5233309.