1 high wind, 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 Jun 13, 2:25 PM PST, 5 minutes earlier.
MOJAVE DESERT/SOUTHERN GREAT BASIN AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 325 PM PDT WED JUN 13 2001 SYNOPSIS...THE STRONG COLD FRONT THAT BROUGHT GUSTY WINDS AND COOLER AIR TO THE REGION...WILL MOVE QUICKLY EAST ALLOWING WINDS TO SUBSIDE OVERNIGHT. THE EXCEPTION WILL BE ALONG THE COLORADO RIVER VALLEY...WHERE IT WILL REMAIN BREEZY TO LOCALLY WINDY THROUGH THURSDAY MORNING. A RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE WILL THEN SLOWLY BUILD OVER THE WESTERN STATES THURSDAY AND FRIDAY...ALLOWING TEMPERATURES TO WARM BACK TO NORMAL. DISCUSSION...GUSTY WINDS ON THE DECREASE THIS AFTERNOON AS STRONG SHORT WAVE ROTATES EAST THROUGH SOUTHERN UT AND NORTHERN AZ. IMPRESSIVE SUBSIDENCE WITH THIS FEATURE BRIEFLY PRODUCED ADVISORY LEVEL WINDS ACROSS MUCH OF LINCOLN AND CLARK COUNTIES. POST ANALYSIS SHOWED EXCELLENT SATELLITE SIGNATURE OF SUBSIDENCE ON WATER VAPOR IMAGES WITH INTERESTING DOPPLER VELOCITY OUTPUT FROM THE 88D OVER THE LAS VEGAS VALLEY. WINDY FORECAST WAS RIGHT ON TARGET (SURPASSING THE WIMPY MOS GUIDANCE) BUT MIGHT HAVE BEEN BETTER IF ADVISORY HAD BEEN EXPANDED TO INCLUDE REMAINDER OF CLARK AND LINCOLN COUNTIES. VERIFIED THE WIND ADVISORY FOR LAKE MEAD WITH PEAK GUSTS OF 44 MPH AT OVERTON BEACH AND 56 MPH NEAR LAUGHLIN BEFORE NOON. MCCARRAN PEAK GUST WAS 47 MPH AT 1134 AM PDT WHILE NORTH LAS VEGAS AIRPORT HIT 45 MPH. MODELS IN GOOD AGREEMENT IN QUICKLY DECREASING GRADIENTS THIS EVENING AS SHORT WAVE MOVES EAST. HOWEVER...MOS GUIDANCE CONTINUES TO UNDERPLAY THE SPEEDS AND HAVE LEFT GUSTY EVENING WINDS MENTIONED IN MOST ZONES. MODERATE NORTH-SOUTH GRADIENTS REMAIN IN PLACE DOWN THE COLORADO THROUGH THURSDAY MORNING SO CONTINUED MENTION OF BREEZY CONDITIONS THERE. AFTER A COOL NIGHT...EXPECT A SIGNIFICANT WARM UP THURSDAY AS HEIGHTS AND THICKNESSES RISE SUBSTANTIALLY. RIDGE THEN AMPLIFIES ACROSS NORTHERN MEXICO AND THE DESERT SOUTHWEST FRIDAY FOR CONTINUED WARMING. IN THE EXTENDED...DESERT SOUTHWEST RIDGE REMAINS DOMINATE FACTOR THROUGH THE WEEKEND FOR ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES AND SUNNY SKIES. MODELS STILL SOMEWHAT IN DISAGREEMENT ON HANDLING TROUGH OFF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST COAST IN THE MONDAY-WEDNESDAY TIME FRAME. MRF TRENDING TOWARD OTHER MODELS WHICH INDICATE MORE OF A RIDGE HOLDING ON INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK. WENT WITH THIS IDEA BUT KEPT TEMPERATURES WARMER THAN MRF MOS FORECASTING. NEMETH .LAS.7...NONE.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
High winds caused a large tree to fall onto East Desert Inn Road blocking traffic for about an hour.
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, June 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: 5256289.