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 Mar 13, 2:22 PM PST, 1 hour 8 minutes earlier.
MOJAVE DESERT/SOUTHERN GREAT BASIN AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 222 PM PST WED MAR 13 2002 SYNOPSIS...STRONG WINDS WILL CONTINUE ACROSS MUCH OF THE MOJAVE DESERT AND SOUTHERN GREAT BASIN THIS EVENING IN ASSOCIATION WITH A VIGOROUS COLD FRONT MOVING THROUGH THE AREA. TEMPERATURES BEHIND THE FRONT WILL COOL SIGNIFICANTLY WITH HIGH TEMPERATURES THURSDAY AND FRIDAY ABOUT 8-10 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL. DISCUSSION...SURFACE FRONT WAS LOCATED ROUGHLY ALONG A SGU-VGT-IYK LINE AT 2 PM. STRONGEST PRE-FRONTAL WINDS HAVE BEEN ACROSS SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY AS EXPECTED. DAG RECORDED A 64 MPH GUST ON THEIR 21Z OB. THEY HAVE HAD SEVERAL OCCASIONS OF NEAR-ZERO VISIBILITY. CHP REPORTED A POWER LINE WAS BLOWN DOWN ACROSS I-15 NEAR BARSTOW EARLIER. CALTRANS HAS REPORTED SEVERAL MULTIPLE CAR ACCIDENTS ASSOCIATED WITH THE HIGH WINDS AND LOW VIS. A SPOTTER IN KINGMAN RECORDED GUSTS TO 60 MPH AT 2 PM. OLAF KNOLLS AND TWEEDS POINT HAVE BOTH BEEN BOTH BEEN RECORDING STEADY WINDS IN THE 45-50 MPH RANGE WITH GUSTS IN THE MID 50S. YUCCA MOUNTAIN AND RED ROCK CANYON HAVE REPORTED SIMILAR CONDITIONS. THE 18Z MESO-ETA INDICATES A VERY STEEP FRONTAL ZONE WITH AN INTENSE 700MB THERMAL GRADIENT BARELY LAGGING THE SURFACE BOUNDARY AND A RAPID TRANSITION TO DOWNWARD FORCING THROUGH A VERY DEEP LAYER. THUS EXPECT WINDS TO INCREASE SOME IN CLARK COUNTY NV AND NORTHERN MOHAVE COUNTY AZ AS THEY SHIFT TO THE NW BEHIND THE FRONT. GRADIENT IS FORECAST TO RELAX SOMEWHAT OVERNIGHT BUT BRISK NORTHERLY FLOW SHOULD CONTINUE INTO THURSDAY. TEMPS WILL BE SUBSTANTIALLY COOLER FOR THE NEXT COUPLE DAYS...ON THE ORDER OF 8-10 DEGREES BELOW NORMAL MOST LOCATIONS. MEDIUM RANGE GUIDANCE SHOWING BETTER CONSISTENCY IN DEVELOPING A CLOSED LOW NEAR VANCOUVER ISLAND FRIDAY NIGHT AND MOVING IT DOWN THE COAST SAT/SUN. THIS WILL MAINTAIN A DEEP POSITIVE TILT TROUGH OVER THE WEST INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK AND KEEP THINGS COOL AND UNSETTLED THROUGH AT LEAST TUESDAY. IF THIS SCENARIO IS ACCURATE...THE BEST CHANCE FOR A SIGNIFICANT WINTER STORM IN THE SIERRA WOULD BE IN THE SUN/MON TIME FRAME WHILE THE BEST CHANCE FOR PRECIP ACROSS THE SOUTHERN DESERTS WILL LIKELY BE MON/TUE. WILL ALSO HAVE TO BE WARY OF POTENTIAL MOUNTAIN WAVE EVENT SUNDAY BOTH IN THE EASTERN SIERRA SLOPES AND ACROSS PARTS OF CENTRAL NEVADA. RUNK .LAS...A HIGH WIND WARNING IS IN EFFECT FOR MUCH OF SE CA, SRN NV, AND NW AZ UNTIL 9 PM PST. A WIND ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR ERN CA AND CNTRL NV UNTIL 7 PM PST. SEE LATEST STATEMENTS FOR DETAILS.
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Strong winds caused a tree to topple onto a house causing moderate damage to the roof.
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: 5284517.