Nevada, 2001

Heavy Snow in Nevada, January 11, 2001

January 11, 2001 · NWS VEF · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 heavy snow, as filed by the National Weather Service.

The toll

Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Property damage
None recorded
Crop damage
None recorded
Events
1

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.

What forecasters said that day

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, 9:30 PM PST, 2 hours 30 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jan 10, 9:30 PM PST, 2 hours 30 minutes before
MOJAVE DESERT/SOUTHERN GREAT BASIN AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV
930 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...WITH PERIODS OF HEAVY
RAIN OVER THE 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...WELL...THIS STORM IS THUS FAR DELIVERING AS PROMISED.
REPORTS FROM THE EASTERN SIERRA ALREADY HAD 7 INCHES OF NEW SNOW AS
OF EARLY THIS EVENING. RAIN AND SNOW HAVE ALSO BEEN AFFECTING THE
OWENS VALLEY. THIS MOIST BAND AND PLENTIFUL DYNAMICS SHIFT EASTWARD
OVERNIGHT AND THURSDAY...AND WILL PROVIDE AND MAJOR RAIN AND SNOW
EVENT FOR MUCH OF THE CWA.

THE AVN IS THE PREFERRED MODEL THIS EVENING...AND ITS TIMING OF THE
MAJOR FEATURES COINCIDES VERY WELL WITH INHERITED FORECAST. THUS...
I SEE VERY LITTLE TO CHANGE AT THE MOMENT. I WILL UPDATE SHORTLY TO
MAKE SOME TWEAKS TO THE FORECAST FOR TONIGHT. HOWEVER...THE
FORECAST ITSELF APPEARS TO BE IN EXCELLENT SHAPE. THE ONLY QUESTION
MARK RIGHT NOW IS WHETHER OR NOT THE WIND ADVISORY IS WARRANTED OVER
ESMERALDA AND NYE COUNTIES. THESE WINDS HAVE BEEN DIFFICULT TO
VERIFY THUS FAR. HOWEVER...GIVEN THE VERY STRONG WINDS CURRENTLY
OVER ADJACENT INYO COUNTY...IT WOULD PROBABLY BE PRUDENT TO LEAVE
THE ADVISORY ALONE.

WE SHOULD START TO SEE SOME MODERATION OF THE WEATHER FROM THE WEST
LATE TOMORROW AFTERNOON AND EVENING AS THE SYSTEM CONTINUES MOVING
EAST. LAPSE RATES WILL BE OF SUFFICIENT MAGNITUDE THAT WE MAY SEE
THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOP AS WELL. A MORE SHOWERY REGIME TAKES HOLD
FRIDAY AS THE COLDER AIR ALOFT MOVES IN. WE WILL THEN DRY OUT A BIT
AND PREP FOR THE NEXT STORM SYSTEM LATE THIS WEEKEND.

.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.

Event by event

1 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.

Heavy Snow, Northern Nye

When
January 11, 12:00 AM PST to 9:00 AM PST
Where
Northern Nye forecast zone
Reported by
TRAINED SPOTTER

24 inches of new snow fell over a 9 hour period in Manhattan, Nevada.

What these are

Heavy Snow
Snowfall reaching the local warning threshold without the other hazards of a winter storm.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

More

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Sources

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: 5228220.