1 high wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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.
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 Feb 28, 9:35 PM PST, 4 hours 25 minutes earlier.
MOJAVE DESERT/SOUTHERN GREAT BASIN AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 935 PM PST THU FEB 28 2002 SYNOPSIS... A COLD FRONT WILL SWEEP ACROSS THE AREA OVERNIGHT INTO FRIDAY AND USHER IN WINDY AND MUCH COOLER WEATHER. DAYTIME TEMPERATURES ON FRIDAY WILL PLUMMET...ON AVERAGE...15 DEGREES FROM READINGS ON THURSDAY. STRONG AND GUSTY WINDS WILL PREVAIL OVER MUCH OF THE REGION ON SATURDAY...AND THERE WILL BE ADDITIONAL COOLING. TEMPERATURES ON SATURDAY WILL BE ABOUT TEN DEGREES BELOW NORMAL. EXPECT LESS WIND ON SUNDAY ALONG WITH SOME WARMING AS HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS OVER THE AREA. DISCUSSION...MESOWEST DATA THAT INCORPORATES ALL TYPES OF SURFACE OBSERVING STATIONS DEPICTS STRONG COLD FRONTAL BOUNDARY PRESENTLY OVER SOUTHERN LINCOLN COUNTY. GUSTY NORTH WINDS OCCURRING AT TONOPAH AND BISHOP WITH VISIBILITIES RESTRICTED AT BISHOP IN BLOWING DUST. EXPECT COLD FRONT WILL COME THROUGH LAS VEGAS VALLEY BETWEEN 11 PM AND MIDNIGHT. DEEP LAYER SUBSIDENCE DOES NOT REACH SOUTHERN NEVADA UNTIL EARLY TOMORROW MORNING. I EXPECT THE PERIOD OF STRONGEST WINDS TO OCCUR TOMORROW MORNING THROUGH MID-AFTERNOON. WIND ADVISORY HAS ALREADY BEEN ISSUED FOR THE COLORADO RIVER STARTING LATER TONIGHT AND CONTINUING THROUGHOUT THE DAY. ON SATURDAY...AVN STILL ADVERTISING MORE ENERGY DIGGING SOUTH INTO ARIZONA REINFORCING COLD AIR ADVECTION/SURFACE GRADIENT. ALTHOUGH NEW AVN MOS GUIDANCE NOT AS GUNG-HO ON THE WINDS FOR SATURDAY. UPDATES THIS EVENING WILL CENTER AROUND THE AMOUNT OF CLOUDINESS AND POSSIBLE ISOLATED SNOW SHOWER THAT COULD OCCUR OVER NORTHERN LINCOLN COUNTY. ELY IS REPORTING SOME LIGHT SNOW PRESENTLY. WILL CARRY THE CLOUDINESS INTO FAR NORTHWEST ARIZONA AS SHORTWAVE DIGS INTO SOUTHERN UTAH TONIGHT. PIERCE .LAS...A WIND ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR THE LAKE MEAD NATIONAL RECREATIONAL AREA/CO RIVER VALLEY FOR LATE TONIGHT AND FRIDAY. REFER TO THE ADVISORY STATEMENT (WWUS45) FOR DETAILS.
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A dry cold front pushed through the area causing several homes to recieve roof damage. Several trees and power lines were also blown over.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Arizona in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Arizona, March 2002
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: 5284515.