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 11, 8:30 PM PST, 4 hours 6 minutes earlier.
WESTERN NEVADA AND EASTERN CALIFORNIA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV
930 PM PDT FRI APR 11 2003
COLD LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM DEVELOPING OFF PAC NW CST WITH AID OF
130 KT NNW JET ALONG 145W IN ERN PAC. MINUS 32 C COLD POOL AT
500 MB AND MINUS 14 C AT 700 MB RESULTING IN LARGE AREA OF
INSTABILITY CLOUDS AND SHOWERS OFF NRN CA AND SRN OREGON COAST THIS
EVENING MOVING ONSHORE INTO NRN CA TONIGHT. QPFS FM 00Z MODEL RUNS
STILL ON TRACK FOR HEAVY SNOW IN SIERRA WITH 2-4 INCH OF WATER
EQUIVALENT BY 18Z SUNDAY. COLD ADVECTION AND PCPN DEVELOPING ON WEST
SIDE OF SIERRA HELPING TO ENHANCE THERMAL AND PRESSURE GRADIENTS
ACROSS SIERRA ON SATURDAY. 700 MB SW WINDS FCST AROUND 40 KTS WHILE
100-110 KT UPPER JET AXIS PUSHES ACROSS TAHOE AREA SATURDAY. MOS
WINDS SHOWING SUSTAINED S-SW WINDS IN 25-30 MPH RANGE DURING DAY
SATURDAY. HAVE ISSUED WIND ADVISORIES FOR ALL OF SIERRA ZONES AND
EXTREME WRN NV FOR SATURDAY. COULD ALSO SEE AREAS OF BLOWING DUST
AND SAND BY SATURDAY AFTN IN WRN NV VALLEYS ESPECIALLY IN CARSON AND
HUMBOLDT SINK AREAS AROUND FALLON AND LOVELOCK. SNOW LEVELS EXPECTED
TO LOWER TO NEAR VALLEY FLOORS OF WRN NV LATE SATURDAY NIGHT AND
HAVE INCLUDED POSSIBLE 1-3 INCHES OF SNOW ACCUMULATIONS IN
RENO-CARSON CITY AREA BY SUNDAY MORNING. COLD UPPER LOW REMAINS OVER
AREA INTO MONDAY FOR CONTINUED SNOW SHOWERS. SOME IMPROVEMENT
EXPECTED TUES BEFORE NEXT COLD PAC WEATHER SYSTEM MOVES INTO AREA ON
WEDNESDAY. CYLKE
.REV...WINTER STORM WATCH SAT AFTERNOON THROUGH SUNDAY...ZONES
071...072 AND 002.
WINTER STORM WATCH SAT NIGHT THROUGH SUNDAY FOR ZONE 073.
.WIND ADVISORY SATURDAY FOR CAZ070-073 AND NVZ002-003 AND
NV005.CAZ070>073-NVZ001>005-121400- HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RENO NV 600 AM PDT FRI APR 11 2003 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR WESTERN NEVADA...THE EASTERN SIERRA AND NORTHEASTERN CALIFORNIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY... THE PROBABILITY FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY A STRENGTHENING AREA OF LOW PRESSURE IS EXPECTED TO APPROACH THE WEST COAST THIS WEEKEND. STRONG WINDS ARE POSSIBLE IN WESTERN NEVADA SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND NIGHT. A WINTER STORM WATCH HAS BEEN POSTED FOR THE MOUNTAINS OF LASSEN AND EASTERN PLUMAS COUNTIES AS WELL AS THE GREATER LAKE TAHOE AREA FOR HEAVY SNOW SATURDAY AFTERNOON THROUGH SUNDAY. REFER TO WINTER STORM WATCH...WWUS45 KREV 111105 FOR DETAILS. COOLER WEATHER IS EXPECTED TO SPREAD INTO WESTERN NEVADA VALLEYS SUNDAY WITH THE POSSIBILITY OF SNOW SHOWERS THROUGH SUNDAY EVENING. ANOTHER AREA OF LOW PRESSURE MAY BRING MORE SNOW TO NORTHEAST CALIFORNIA AND WESTERN NEVADA ON TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED THROUGH FRIDAY. WEATHER SPOTTERS MAY BE NEEDED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WIND OR SNOWFALL THIS WEEKEND.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Wind gust measured by spotter about 6 miles southwest of Gardnerville, NV.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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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: 5353447.