The first strong cold front of the season brought strong southwest winds ahead of it, and strong north winds behind it.
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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 episode as NWS VEF wrote it up.
The first strong cold front of the season brought strong southwest winds ahead of it, and strong north winds behind 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 Oct 19, 7:50 PM PST, 5 hours 10 minutes earlier.
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</html>HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...CORRECTED THIRD SECTION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 507 AM PDT FRI OCT 19 2007 CAZ519-200700- EASTERN SIERRA SLOPES- 507 AM PDT FRI OCT 19 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CALIFORNIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A HIGH WIND WATCH REMAINS IN EFFECT FROM LATE TONIGHT THROUGH SATURDAY MORNING FOR THE EAST SLOPE OF THE SOUTHERN SIERRA ABOVE 5000 FEET. WEST WIND GUST OF 60 TO 70 MPH ARE POSSIBLE LATE TONIGHT. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL SWEEP ACROSS THE SOUTHERN SIERRA LATE SATURDAY MORNING. WINDS WILL SHIFT TO THE NORTHWEST AND DECREASE. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. CAZ523-200700- WESTERN MOJAVE DESERT- 507 AM PDT FRI OCT 19 2007 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF CALIFORNIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THE THREAT FOR HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY A HIGH WIND WATCH FOR WESTERN SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY IS IN EFFECT FROM SATURDAY MORNING THROUGH SATURDAY EVENING. STRONG WEST WINDS WILL OCCUR ACROSS THE WESTERN MOJAVE DESERT SATURDAY AS A STRONG PACIFIC COLD FRONT MOVES ACROSS THE GREAT BASIN. WEST WIND GUSTS TO AROUND 60 MPH WILL BE POSSIBLE SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND EVENING ACROSS WESTERN SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED. AZZ001>003-036-CAZ520>522-524>527-NVZ014>022-200700- NORTHWEST PLATEAU-LOWER COLORADO RIVER VALLEY-NORTHWEST DESERTS- LAKE MEAD NATIONAL RECREATION AREA-OWENS VALLEY- WHITE MOUNTAINS OF INYO COUNTY-DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK- EASTERN MOJAVE DESERT-MORONGO BASIN-CADIZ BASIN- SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY-UPPER COLORADO RIVER VALLEY- ESMERALDA AND CENTRAL NYE COUNTY-LINCOLN COUNTY- NORTHEAST CLARK COUNTY-WESTERN CLARK AND SOUTHERN NYE COUNTY- SHEEP RANGE-SPRING MOUNTAINS-LAS VEGAS VALLEY- SOUTHERN CLARK COUNTY- 507 AM PDT FRI OCT 19 2007 /507 AM MST FRI OCT 19 2007/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST ARIZONA...CALIFORNIA AND SOUTHERN NEVADA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT THE THREAT FOR HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SATURDAY THROUGH THURSDAY A STRONG COLD FRONT WILL SWEEP THROUGH CENTRAL NEVADA SATURDAY AFTERNOON. THE COLD FRONT WILL RACE THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF SOUTHERN NEVADA...NORTHWEST ARIZONA AND EASTERN CALIFORNIA SATURDAY NIGHT. A WIND ADVISORY COULD BE NEEDED FOR SOUTHERN NEVADA SATURDAY AFTERNOON AND SATURDAY NIGHT AS NORTHWEST WIND GUSTS EXCEEDING 40 MPH OCCUR JUST BEHIND THE COLD FRONT. A WIND ADVISORY MAY VERY WELL BE NEEDED THROUGH SUNDAY FOR THE COLORADO RIVER AS STRONG NORTH WINDS CONTINUE DOWN THE VALLEY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Occurred 5 miles WSW of Independence, CA.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in California in 2007Every state in 2007This day in weather historyWarnings in California, October 2007
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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 59284.