Name: High Wind in Nevada, November 23, 2001
Start: 2001-11-23T16:30
End: 2001-11-23T16:30
Location: Nevada

The toll

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 Nov 23, 9:30 AM PST, 7 hours earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Nov 23, 9:30 AM PST, 7 hours before

MOJAVE DESERT/SOUTHERN GREAT BASIN AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV
930 AM PST FRI NOV 23 2001

SYNOPSIS...A COLD FRONT WILL EXIT THE SOUTHERN GREAT BASIN AND
MOJAVE DESERT TODAY WITH BREEZY AND COOLER WEATHER EXPECTED IN ITS
WAKE. A STRONG LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM IS THEN FORECAST TO APPROACH THE
REGION SATURDAY. THIS WILL BE A SIGNIFICANT STORM PRODUCING STRONG
WINDS...VALLEY RAIN AND MOUNTAIN SNOW AS IT SWINGS THROUGH THE
WESTERN STATES OVER THE WEEKEND.

DISCUSSION...WINDS DECREASING A BIT SOONER THAN PREVIOUS THINKING
AND SATELLITE SHOWING ONLY A FEW HIGH CLOUDS ACROSS THE FORECAST
AREA. WILL MAKE AN UPDATE TO ADJUST THOSE ITEMS FOR
TODAY...OTHERWISE CURRENT PACKAGE LOOKING GOOD. FOCUS WILL BE ON THE
WEEKEND STORM AND FIRST LOOK AT 12Z MODELS HAS ME FAVORING THE AVN
SLIGHTLY DUE TO SLIGHTLY BETTER INITIALIZATION OVER THE EASTERN
PACIFIC AND BETTER RUN-TO-RUN CONSISTENCY. COMBINATION OF ENERGETIC
SOUTHERN STREAM PACIFIC SHORT WAVE AND TROUGH DIGGING INTO THE
PACIFIC NW WILL SET THE STAGE FOR A STORMY PERIOD THIS WEEKEND.

BOTTOM LINE IS HEAVIEST PRECIPITATION WILL OCCUR LATE SATURDAY
AFTERNOON AND SATURDAY NIGHT FOR INYO COUNTY AND SATURDAY NIGHT INTO
EARLY SUNDAY MORNING FOR REMAINDER OF THE ZONES. WINTER STORM
WATCHES WILL LIKELY BE ISSUED FOR THE AFTERNOON PACKAGE FOR INYO
COUNTY AND HIGH ELEVATIONS OF NV. HOWEVER...WARM AIR ADVECTION AHEAD
OF THE TROUGH WILL KEEP SNOW LEVELS HIGH. COLD AIR ARRIVES WITH THE
TROUGH PASSAGE...BUT PRECIPITATION QUICKLY SHUTS OFF. SO...MAINLY
HIGH ELEVATION SNOWS WITH SOME ACCUMULATIONS IN THE HIGH VALLEYS
WITH FRONTAL/UPPER TROUGH PASSAGE. WINDS THE OTHER CONCERN...AND
THERE ARE GOOD SIGNATURES FOR AT LEAST WIND ADVISORY LEVELS FOR MUCH
OF THE FORECAST AREA (MAINLY SATURDAY NIGHT INTO SUNDAY MORNING).
STRONG WINDS ALOFT WILL BE FIGHTING STRONG UPWARD FORCING SO HARD TO
TELL RIGHT NOW HOW STRONG WINDS WILL BE.

BEYOND SUNDAY...A NORTHWEST FLOW BECOMES ESTABLISHED ACROSS THE
REGION. DISTURBANCES EMBEDDED IN THIS FLOW WILL BE VERY HARD TO TIME
(MUCH LIKE PAST WEEK OR SO). WILL PROBABLY MAKE SOME ADJUSTMENTS TO
CURRENT EXTENDED TOWARD DRIER FORECAST WITH NO SIGN OF PREVIOUS LATE
WEEK (THURSDAY) TROUGH THAT PREVIOUS MRF WAS ADVERTISING.

NEMETH

.LAS...NONE.

Event by event

1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.

High Wind, Northern Nye

When: November 23, 4:30 PM PST
Where: Northern Nye forecast zone
Property damage: $5,000
Reported by: TRAINED SPOTTER

Strong winds caused damage to a roof in the town of Gabbs.

What these are

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.

The same day elsewhere

More

Every storm in Nevada in 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history Warnings in Nevada, November 2001

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: 5272401.