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 Nov 10, 2:39 PM PST, 21 minutes earlier.
MOJAVE DESERT/SOUTHERN GREAT BASIN AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 239 PM PST SUN NOV 10 2002 .SYNOPSIS...A MOIST NORTHWEST FLOW WILL CONTINUE TO BRING SOME CLOUD COVER OVER THE SOUTHERN GREAT BASIN TONIGHT WITH A CHANCE OF RAIN AND SNOW SHOWERS THIS EVENING IN THE MOUNTAINS. SOME HIGH CLOUDS WILL STREAM OVER THE MOJAVE DESERT. A RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD IN FROM THE WEST ON VETERANS DAY AND TUESDAY FOR MOSTLY SUNNY AND WARMER CONDITIONS. .DISCUSSION...MODELS IN PRETTY GOOD AGREEMENT THIS RUN. NORTHWEST FLOW OVER THE REGION CONTINUES TO BRING LOW AND MID LEVEL MOISTURE TO CENTRAL NEVADA THIS AFTERNOON WITH HIGH LEVEL MOISTURE POISED TO MOVE INTO THE MOJAVE DESERT TONIGHT. WILL KEEP A CHANCE OF SHOWERS OVER THE MOUNTAINS OF THE FAR NORTH PORTION OF THE FORECAST AREA THIS EVENING...OTHERWISE PARTLY TO MOSTLY CLOUDY SKIES. UPPER RIDGE WILL SHARPEN AND MOVE OVER CA MONDAY AND MIGRATE EAST ACROSS THE FORECAST AREA TUESDAY. THERE WILL BE SOME HIGH CLOUDS AT TIMES BUT GENERALLY MOSTLY SUNNY SKIES WITH A SLIGHT WARMING TREND. WITH THE SHARPENING UPPER RIDGE...SURFACE HIGH STRENGTHENS TO THE NORTH WHICH WILL CREATE BORDERLINE BREEZY CONDITIONS DOWN THE COLORADO RIVER AT TIMES LATER TONIGHT THROUGH EARLY TUESDAY WITH LIGHT WINDS LATER TUESDAY. SHORTWAVE TROUGH STILL PROGGED TO PASS QUICKLY ACROSS THE AREA WEDNESDAY BUT VERY WEAK AND ELONGATED. GFS HAS VERY LITTLE MOISTURE OVER OUR FORECAST AREA AND NO QPF. AFTER COORDINATION WITH ELKO...HAVE DECIDED TO REMOVE ANY MENTION OF PRECIP FOR THE NORTHERN ZONES ON WEDNESDAY. EXPECT SOMEWHAT COOLER TEMPS WEDNESDAY WITH THE TROUGH PASSAGE. IN THE EXTENDED...AFTER WEDNESDAYS TROUGH PASSAGE ALL MODELS AGREE ON REBOUNDING A RIDGE OVER THE AREA THROUGH THE END OF THE WORK WEEK. ECMWF DIFFERS FROM THE GFS AND CANADIAN ON PATTERN SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. GFS AND CANADIAN FLATTEN RIDGE AND DRAG A SHORTWAVE OVER NORTHERN NEVADA THEN. ECMWF HAS WELL DEFINED RIDGE OVER WESTERN CONUS AND TROUGH OFF THE COAST. WENT WITH THE PROGRESSIVE GFS AS THE PATTERN HAS BEEN MOVING. 12Z RUN OF GFS IS A BIT SLOWER IN BRINGING THE WEEKEND TROUGH THROUGH. WILL NOT MENTION PRECIPITATION NOW. HAVE BROUGHT IN CLOUDS TO NYE AND ESMERALDA COUNTIES THEN AND HAVE LOWERED TEMPERATURES FOR SATURDAY AND SUNDAY. HARRISON/JACQUES .LAS...NONE.
AZZ001>003-036-CAZ026>029-NVZ013>022-110115- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 509 AM PST SUN NOV 10 2002 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR SOUTHEAST CALIFORNIA/SOUTHERN NEVADA/NORTHWEST ARIZONA .DAY ONE... NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN... THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW.
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A powerful Pacific storm brought strong winds to the Sierra. A local spotter in Aspendell recorded a wind gust of 71 mph with sustained winds of 40 to 50 mph.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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