1 heavy snow, 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 Jan 10, 3:15 PM PST, 45 minutes earlier.
MOJAVE DESERT/SOUTHERN GREAT BASIN AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 315 PM PST WED JAN 10 2001 SYNOPSIS...A MOIST PACIFIC COLD FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS THE SOUTHERN GREAT BASIN AND MOJAVE DESERT TONIGHT THROUGH THURSDAY. THIS SYSTEM WILL PRODUCE HEAVY SNOW IN THE MOUNTAINS WHILE PERIODS OF HEAVY RAIN WILL OCCUR IN VALLEYS. THE RAIN WILL BEGIN TO TAPER OFF LATE THURSDAY INTO FRIDAY...ALTHOUGH SHOWERS WILL STILL BE LIKELY. ON FRIDAY...THE SNOW LEVEL COULD POSSIBLY FALL TO 3000 FEET IN HEAVIER SHOWERS. DISCUSSION...SATELLITE SHOWS AN IMPRESSIVE PACIFIC COLD FRONT SPREADING INTO CENTRAL CALIFORNIA WITH RAIN MOVING ACROSS THE CENTRAL VALLEY AND LA BASIN. CLOUD SHIELD INCREASING ACROSS THE DESERTS WITH RAIN AND SNOW BECOMING HEAVY AT TIMES OVERNIGHT. ETA/AVN TIMING SLIGHTLY DIFFERENT WITH AVN BLOWING FRONTAL BAND ACROSS THE REGION 6 HOURS FASTER THEN ETA. DUE TO COMPLEXITY OF UPPER TROUGH AND NUMEROUS SHORT WAVES PIVOTING THROUGH BELIEVE THE SLOWER ETA BETTER. ALTHOUGH...18Z MESO-ETA LENDING SOME CREDENCE TO THE AVN BLOWING FRONT THROUGH RATHER QUICKLY WITH RAIN TAPERING OFF LATE THURSDAY AFTERNOON. FOR THE LAS VEGAS VALLEY LOOKS AS HEAVIEST RAIN WILL FALL BETWEEN 12Z AND 21Z THURSDAY. IN WAKE OF FRONTAL BAND...REGION LEFT UNDER COLD CYCLONIC FLOW AND SHOWERY REGIME. SNOW LEVELS COULD POSSIBLY FALL TO 3000 FEET IN HEAVIER SHOWERS FRIDAY. HAVE UPGRADED TO A WINTER STORM WARNING CALIFORNIA/NEVADA MOUNTAINS AND POSTED A WATCH FOR NORTHWEST ARIZONA WITH ONE TO TWO FOOT AMOUNTS STILL POSSIBLE. NEXT ISSUE IN THE SHORT TERM CONCERNS POSSIBLE MOUNTAIN WAVE WINDS SURFACING IN NORTHERN NYE/ESMERALDA COUNTIES. FROM CROSS SECTION STABLE LAYER AT MOUNTAIN TOPS BEST BETWEEN 03Z-09Z. HAVE POSTED A WIND ADVISORY FOR REGION WITH GUSTS UP TO 60 MPH POSSIBLE. FOR THE EXTENDED HAVE KEPT SIMILAR TRENDS WITH COOL AND UNSETTLED WEATHER MAINLY SOUTHERN ZONES AS CLOSED LOW THAT DEVELOPS SUNDAY OVER REGION LINGERS INTO THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK. PIERCE .LAS...A WINTER STORM WARNING AND WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED FOR MUCH OF THE REGION. A WIND ADVISORY HAS ALSO BEEN ISSUED FOR A PORTION OF NEVADA. PLEASE REFER TO THE LATEST RNOWSWLAS STATEMENT FOR DETAILED INFORMATION.
1 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
A strong Pacific storm system brought heavy snow to portions of central Nevada. A spotter in Manhattan recorded 24 inches of snow in a 24 hour period.
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, January 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: 5228571.