1 heavy snow, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 26, 9:25 PM PST, 3 hours 35 minutes earlier.
MOJAVE DESERT/SOUTHERN GREAT BASIN AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 925 PM PST FRI JAN 26 2001 SYNOPSIS... A STORM SYSTEM SLOWLY MOVING ACROSS THE GREAT BASIN AND MOJAVE DESERT WILL CONTINUE THE THREAT OF PRECIPITATION THROUGH SATURDAY. EXPECT IMPROVING WEATHER CONDITIONS SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY AS THE STORM MOVES EAST OF THE AREA...AND HIGH PRESSURE FOLLOWS IN ITS WAKE. DAYTIME TEMPERATURES WILL BE BELOW NORMAL...WITH SNOW FALLING ON THE HIGH DESERT FLOORS. DISCUSSION...FROM SATELLITE IMAGERY WELL DEFINED CYCLONIC CIRCULATION NOTED OVER INYO COUNTY CALIFORNIA. NOT OVERLY IMPRESSED BY INITIAL MODELS DEPICTION OF UPPER LEVEL FEATURES WITH THE AVN COMING CLOSEST WITH PLACEMENT OF A VORTICITY CENTER OVER THE EASTERN DESERTS OF CALIFORNIA. BAROCLINIC BAND ASSOCIATED WITH FEATURE CONTINUES TO PIVOT NORTHEAST ACROSS FORECAST AREA WITH BAND OF HEAVIER PRECIPITATION MOVING OFF NORTHEAST OF LAS VEGAS VALLEY. FROM FLOOD DISTRICTS NETWORK OF RAIN GAUGES GENERALLY A TENTH OF AN INCH FELL IN THE LAS VEGAS VALLEY...WITH A FEW SPOTS IN THE FAR NORTH VALLEY RECORDING AROUND TWO TENTHS OF AN INCH. SNOW HAS BECOME LIGHT IN THE SPRING MOUNTAINS BUT THE SHEEP RANGE STILL SHOULD BE GETTING A DOSE OF HEAVY SNOW. WILL UPDATE TO DROP SPRING MOUNTAINS FROM SNOW ADVISORY BUT KEEP THE SHEEP RANGE ADVISORY POSTED UNTIL MIDNIGHT. OTHERWISE...PLENTY OF COLD AIR ALOFT STILL STREAMING INTO SRN CALIFORNIA WITH EDWARD RADAR DETECTING SCATTERED SHOWERS OVER THE WESTERN MOJAVE DESERT WITH THE SNOW LEVEL POTENTIALLY AS LOW AS 3000 FEET UNDER COLD POOL ALOFT. ANY THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEEN VERY ISOLATED AND HAVE OCCURRED NEAR THE SRN CALIFORNIA COAST. AFTER TONIGHT...MODELS SLOWLY DRIFT COLD UPPER LOW CENTER OVER LOWER COLORADO RIVER VALLEY BY LATE SATURDAY AFTERNOON WITH BRUNT OF DYNAMICS SHIFTING EAST INTO ARIZONA. WITH PLENTY OF MOISTURE TO WORK WITH SCATTERED THERMODYNAMICALLY DRIVEN SHOWERS WILL ERUPT MAINLY IN THE AFTERNOON AND DISSIPATE TOMORROW NIGHT. ON SUPER BOWL SUNDAY...AFFECTS OF UPPER LOW WILL BE COMING TO AN END AS IT STARTS TO ACCELERATE EAST ACROSS ARIZONA INTO NEW MEXICO WHILE SHORT WAVE RIDGE MOVES IN FROM THE WEST. SOME FIRST PERIOD UPDATES FORTHCOMING TO HANDLE CURRENT TRENDS...OTHERWISE REMAINDER OF PACKAGE OK. PIERCE .LAS...A SNOW ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR THE SHEEP RANGE ABOVE 4500 FEET UNTIOL MIDNIGHT. SEE THE LATEST RNOWSWLAS STATEMENT FOR DETAILS.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
Heavy snow was reported just west of Las Vegas on Mountain Springs Summit with 7-8 inches of new snow.
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: 5228575.