High pressure pushed high temperatures in Las Vegas over 100 degrees each of the last 18 days of June, with overnight lows in the upper 70s to mid 80s.
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
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.
High pressure pushed high temperatures in Las Vegas over 100 degrees each of the last 18 days of June, with overnight lows in the upper 70s to mid 80s.
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 Jun 26, 9:18 AM PST, 2 hours 42 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 1018 AM PDT TUE JUN 26 2007 .SYNOPSIS...A VERY DRY SOUTHWEST FLOW OVER THE MOJAVE DESERT AND SOUTHERN GREAT BASIN WILL BRING CLEAR SKIES THROUGH MUCH OF THE WEEK. ANOTHER UNSEASONABLY STRONG AREA OF LOW PRESSURE WILL MOVE TOWARD THE PACIFIC COAST LATE IN THE WEEK...WHICH MAY BRING ANOTHER ROUND OF GUSTY WINDS TO THE SOUTHERN GREAT BASIN AND MOJAVE DESERT. && .UPDATE...NEITHER A CLOUD IN THE SKY NOR A PROBLEM IN THE FORECAST TO BE FOUND TODAY. NO UPDATE NEEDED. && .PREV DISCUSSION... 308 AM PDT TUE JUN 26 2007 .SHORT TERM...STRONG TROUGH FOR LATE JUNE WILL REMAIN WELL OFF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST COAST TODAY AND WEDNESDAY BEFORE MAKING SOME PROGRESS EAST ON THURSDAY. SOUTHERN GREAT BASIN AND MOJAVE DESERT WILL REMAIN UNDER DRY SOUTHWEST FLOW WITH TEMPERATURES RUNNING SEVERAL DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL. AS FOR THE WIND AND FIRE WEATHER ISSUES. TIGHTEST PACKING OF HEIGHTS STAYS WELL NORTHWEST OF THE AREA TODAY AND WEDNESDAY WITH STRONGEST WINDS EXPECTED ACROSS NORTHERN CALIFORNIA/NORTHWEST NEVADA. AS THE TROUGH STARTS TO PROGRESS CLOSER TO THE NORTHWEST COAST THURSDAY THE TIGHTER GRADIENT STARTS TO SAG SOUTHEAST OVER CENTRAL NEVADA. DEEPLY MIXED BOUNDARY LAYER IN THE AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING WILL HELP ENHANCE SOME GUSTS UP TO 30 MPH TODAY AND WEDNESDAY. .LONG TERM...STRONG HIGH PRESSURE FORECAST TO DEVELOP OVER THE DESERT SOUTHWEST DURING THE EXTENDED PERIOD. PACIFIC NORTHWEST LOW WILL REMAIN NEARLY STATIONARY...HOWEVER THE RIDGE LOOKS STRONG ENOUGH TO KEEP THE PRESSURE GRADIENTS WEAK OVER MUCH OF THE CWA. STILL THINK THAT PORTIONS OF THE WESTERN CWA WILL SEE BREEZY CONDITIONS FRIDAY AND SATURDAY...BUT PROBABLY NOT ENOUGH FOR RED FLAG CONDITIONS. GFS IS SHOWING A NEAR 600MB HIGH DEVELOPING OVER THE 4-CORNERS REGION LATE IN THE EXTENDED. THIS WOULD CERTAINLY BRING WELL ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES TO THE REGION AND HAVE INCREASED HIGH TEMPERATURES SLIGHTLY TO REFLECT THIS. EXPECT DRY CONDITIONS TO PERSIST THROUGH THE EXTENDED. .AVIATION...FOR MCCARRAN...MOSTLY CLEAR SKIES THE NEXT 24 HOURS WITH THE EXCEPTION BEING SMOKE ALOFT FROM FIRES IN CALIFORNIA. SOME VISIBILITY RESTRICTIONS AS WELL BUT NOTHING UNDER 6 MILES. UNDER 8 KNOT SOUTHWEST WINDS FOR EARLY TUESDAY BECOMING 10 TO 12 KNOTS TUESDAY AFTERNOON. FOR THE REST OF SOUTHERN NEVADA...NORTHWEST ARIZONA...AND SOUTHEAST CALIFORNIA: LIGHT SOUTHWEST WINDS TUESDAY MORNING PICKING UP TO 10 TO 15 KNOTS IN THE AFTERNOON. SMOKE FROM FIRES IN THE TEHACHAPI MTNS AND NEAR LAKE TAHOE WILL REDUCE VISIBILITIES ALOFT ALONG TWEB ROUTES 427 AND 405. SMOKE TOPS HAVE BEEN REPORTED UP TO 12.5 KFT. .VEF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... .NV...NONE. .AZ...NONE. .CA...NONE. && MORGAN/PIERCE/GORELOW HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/LASVEGAS
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 626 AM PDT TUE JUN 26 2007 AZZ001>003-036-CAZ519>527-NVZ014>022-271000- NORTHWEST PLATEAU-LOWER COLORADO RIVER VALLEY-NORTHWEST DESERTS- LAKE MEAD NATIONAL RECREATION AREA-EASTERN SIERRA SLOPES- OWENS VALLEY-WHITE MOUNTAINS OF INYO COUNTY- DEATH VALLEY NATIONAL PARK-WESTERN MOJAVE DESERT- 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- 626 AM PDT TUE JUN 26 2007 /626 AM MST TUE JUN 26 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...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY AN UNSEASONABLY STRONG AREA OF LOW PRESSURE WILL MOVE TOWARD THE PACIFIC COAST LATE IN THE WEEK...WHICH WILL PRODUCE ANOTHER ROUND OF GUSTY WINDS. CRITICAL FIRE WEATHER CONDITIONS OF SUSTAINED WINDS OF 20 MPH OR FREQUENT GUSTS GREATER THAN 35 MPH AND RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES LESS THAN 15 PERCENT ARE LIKELY ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE AREA ON FRIDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 heat. Local standard time, as filed.
A man in the Las Vegas Valley died of heat stress.
As the offices recorded each death: direct deaths were caused by the weather itself, indirect ones by something it set in motion.
| Event | Date | Age | Sex | Where | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Heat, Las Vegas Valley | 2007-06-26 | 71 | Male | Outside/Open Areas | Direct |
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Nevada in 2007Every state in 2007This day in weather historyWarnings in Nevada, June 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 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 38550.