Nevada, 2001High Wind in Nevada, July 2, 2001
July 2, 2001 · NWS VEF · 1 event in 1 county or zone
1 high wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $5,000
- 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 Jul 2, 1:59 PM PST, 3 hours 1 minute earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 2, 1:59 PM PST, 3 hours 1 minute before
MOJAVE DESERT/SOUTHERN GREAT BASIN AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV
259 PM PDT MON JUL 2 2001
SYNOPSIS...HIGH PRESSURE BUILDING OVER THE FOUR CORNERS REGION WILL
PROVIDE AN INCREASINGLY MOIST SOUTHEAST FLOW ALOFT AS THE WEEK
PROGRESSES. NORTHWEST ARIZONA WILL CONTINUE TO HAVE THE BEST CHANCE
OF AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS ON TUESDAY. HOWEVER...AS MORE
MOISTURE OVERSPREADS THE AREA ON WEDNESDAY...THE CHANCES OF
THUNDERSTORMS WILL INCREASE ACROSS SOUTHERN NEVADA AND SOUTHEAST
CALIFORNIA. TEMPERATURES WILL CONTINUE QUITE HOT ON TUESDAY...
COOLING ABOUT 5 DEGREES ACROSS THE SOUTH ON WEDNESDAY.
DISCUSSION...THUNDERSTORM COVERAGE LITTLE BETTER TODAY BUT STILL
MAINLY CONFINED TO NORTHWEST ARIZONA AND THE HIGH SIERRA.
PRECIPITABLE WATERS ARE DEFINITELY UP OVER YESTERDAY BUT LOW LEVEL
MOISTURE REMAINS RATHER SKIMPY. IN THE SHORT TERM... I WILL KEEP
SOME MENTION OF EVENING THUNDERSTORMS FOR NORTHWEST ARIZONA...THE
HIGH SIERRA AND PROBABLY THE HIGHER TERRAIN OF SOUTH-CENTRAL NEVADA.
RIGHT NOW I'M LEANING ON REMOVING IT FROM ALL OF CLARK COUNTY AS
BUILDUPS SEEM TO BE STRUGGLING TO REACH PAST THE TCU STATE. SOME
WORRY ABOUT WESTWARD MOVING STORMS OVER MOHAVE COUNTY AND WILL
DECIDE AT LAST MINUTE WHAT TO DO THERE. LITTLE CHANGE TOMORROW AS WE
AWAIT INVERTED TROUGH OVER WEST TEXAS AREA. THIS INVERTED TROUGH MAY
AID IN ORGANIZING THUNDERSTORMS AHEAD OF IT TOMORROW AND TOMORROW
NIGHT (OVER NRN MEXICO OR SRN ARIZONA)... POSSIBLY SETTING THE STAGE
FOR A SIGNIFICANT MOISTURE INCREASE FROM THE SOUTH TUESDAY NIGHT OR
WEDNESDAY. YESTERDAY...THE MODELS HAD THIS SYSTEM TRACKING A LITTLE
FARTHER NORTH TUESDAY EVENING. THE ETA AND AVN ARE STILL GENERATING
STRONG FORCING TUESDAY AFTERNOON OVER NW ARIZONA AND OVER SOUTHERN
NEVADA TUESDAY NIGHT. THE ETA TIME-HEIGHT FOR LAS VEGAS IS
ESPECIALLY OMINOUS FOR TUESDAY NIGHT. BASED ON OUR THINKING THIS
SEEMS OVERDONE...AT LEAST THAT FAST. I WILL RAMP UP THE THUNDERSTORM
COVERAGE FOR WEDNESDAY STILL ACROSS NEVADA AND CALIFORNIA AND KEEP
IDEA OF SCATTERED IN NW ARIZONA TOMORROW. MOST EVERYBODY HAS A
CHANCE THEN FROM WEDNESDAY THROUGH ???. THE EXTENDED MODELS ARE
TRYING TO SHOW SOME DRIER SOUTHWEST FLOW FOR DAYS 6 AND 7 FOR
ALL BUT OUR EASTERN ZONES. I WILL BUY INTO THIS FOR OUR NRN ZONES
BUT KEEP THE THUNDERSTORMS GOING IN NW ARIZONA AND OUR LOCAL
MOUNTAINS THROUGH THE END O F THE EXTENDED. SKRBAC
.LAS....NONE.
High Wind, Western Clark/Southern Nye
- When
- July 2, 5:00 PM PST
- Where
- Western Clark/Southern Nye forecast zone
- Measured
- 61 kt (70 mph)
- Property damage
- $5,000
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 37.129, -115.743 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Strong thunderstorm outflow winds caused a 50-foot elm tree to topple into a residential backyard. The tree did minor damage to the stucco wall and some backyard furniture. Strong winds also blew a metel shed into power lines causing blackouts that lasted a couple of hours. Another home received minor damage when the chimney was knocked off the roof.
- High Wind
- Sustained non-thunderstorm winds of 40 mph or more for an hour, or gusts of 58 mph or more.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
- Flash Flood in New Mexico, July 2, 2001$3.5 million · 1 event
- Hail in Nebraska, July 2, 2001$320,000 · 4.25 in hail · 28 events
- Flooding and Hail in Georgia, July 2 to 4, 2001$143,000 · 0.75 in hail · 15 events
- Damaging Winds in New Mexico, July 2, 2001$70,000 · 56 kt wind · 5 events
- Flash Flood and Lightning Strike in North Carolina, July 2 to 3, 2001$50,000 · 2 events
- High Wind in Nevada, July 2, 2001$25,000 · 54 kt wind · 1 event
- Hail in Montana, July 2, 20011.75 in hail · 13 events
- Flood in North Carolina, July 2, 20011 injured · 1 event
- Hail in Montana, July 2, 20011.75 in hail · 4 events
- Hail in Montana, July 2, 20011.25 in hail · 3 events
- Waterspouts in Mississippi, July 2, 20012 events
- High Wind in California, July 2, 20012 events
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: 5256784.