1 high wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 Reno, NV wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 16, 9:09 AM PST, 4 hours 51 minutes earlier.
WESTERN NEVADA AND EASTERN CALIFORNIA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV
930 AM PDT TUE APR 16 2002
CONSIDERABLE CLOUDS SPREADING OVER NRN CA AND NW CA THIS MORNING
IN LFQ OF 110 KT NLY JET OFF PAC NW CST. RADAR SHOWING LIGHT PCPN
OVER NRN SAC VLY WITH HEAVY PCPN NEAR FNTL BAND OFF NW CA CST.
EXPECT LGT SNOW TO REACH NRN SIERRA THIS AFTN FM TAHOE NWD. QPFS
FROM 12Z MODELS ACROSS NRN SIERRA RANGE FROM AROUND A QUARTER INCH
ON MESO MODELS TO .70 ON AVN BY WED AFTN. WITH STRONG WLY WINDS
TONIGHT MOST PCPN WILL FALL ON WRN SLOPES OF SIERRA WITH AREAS TO
LEE OF SIERRA AND S ON I80 UNDER RAIN/SNOW SHADOW. WILL CONVERT
WINTER STORM WATCH TO SNOW ADVISORY IN NRN SIERRA ZONES CA071 AND
CA072 TONIGHT AND WED FOR HIGHER ELEVATIONS. WINDY CONDITIONS STILL
EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON WITH SFC-850 WINDS SHOWING SUSTAINED WINDS
AROUND 20-25 KTS ACROSS EXTREME WRN NV. WILL KEEP WIND ADVISORIES
FOR THIS AFTN AND TONIGHT. CYLKE
.REV...SNOW ADVISORY TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY ABOVE 7000 FEET TONIGHT
AND WEDNESDAY CAZ072-NVZ002.
.SNOW ADVISORY TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY ABOVE 5500 FEET
TONIGHT AND WEDNESDAY CAZ071.
.WIND ADVISORY MID AFTERNOON THROUGH
EVENING NVZ005-003.
.WIND ADVISORY TONIGHT CAZ073-NVZ001.The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Public report of 59 mph wind gust in northwest Reno.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Nevada in 2002Every state in 2002This day in weather historyWarnings in Nevada, April 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: 5289623.