A low pressure system crossing the Pacific Northwest brought isolated high winds to the western Mojave Desert.
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A low pressure system crossing the Pacific Northwest brought isolated high winds to the western Mojave Desert.
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 Apr 6, 7:56 PM PST, 2 hours 24 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 856 PM PDT SUN APR 6 2008 .SYNOPSIS...A STORM MOVING THROUGH THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST WILL BRING LOCALLY WINDY CONDITIONS TO THE MOJAVE DESERT AND A CHANCE OF SHOWERS TO THE MOUNTAINS OF LINCOLN COUNTY TONIGHT. A STRONGER STORM WILL AFFECT THE REGION LATE TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY...RESULTING IN A CHANCE OF SHOWERS MAINLY OVER THE SOUTHERN SIERRA AND CENTRAL NEVADA MOUNTAINS WITH BREEZY TO WINDY CONDITIONS AND COOLER TEMPERATURES ACROSS THE AREA. DRY CONDITIONS WITH ABOVE NORMAL TEMPERATURES WILL RETURN BY THE END OF THE WEEK. && .UPDATE...UPPER TROUGH MOVING INTO NORTHERN NEVADA THIS EVENING IS PRODUCING CLOUDS AND SOME LIGHT SHOWERS OVER NORTHERN LINCOLN COUNTY AS EXPECTED. OTHERWISE...VARYING AMOUNTS OF HIGH CLOUDS TRAVERSING THE AREA WITH MORE EVIDENT ON SATELLITE APPROACHING THE CALIFORNIA COAST. WINDS ACROSS WESTERN SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY VERIFYING THE WIND ADVISORY WITH GUSTS BETWEEN 40 AND 50 MPH. THERE MAY BE JUST A TOUCH TOO MUCH CLOUD COVER IN THE FORECAST FOR TONIGHT BUT OVERALL THE FORECAST LOOKS TO BE IN PRETTY GOOD SHAPE AND UPDATES NOT EXPECTED. && .PREV DISCUSSION...330 PM PDT SUN APR 6...SHORT TERM...PACIFIC SHORT WAVE WITH CENTER OVER NORTHERN VANCOUVER ISLAND AND TROUGH TO NORTHERN CALIFORNIA COAST AS OF 2 PM PDT TO SHIFT EAST DURING THE NIGHT. INCREASE CLOUDS BEGINNING TO FILL ACROSS THE NORTHERN MOUNTAINS...WITH BEST BUT WEAK DYNAMICS TO MOVE INTO THE NORTHERN LINCOLN COUNTY MOUNTAINS OVERNIGHT. WILL CONTINUE WITH LOW END CHANCE POPS FOR THIS AREA...BUT DRY CONDITIONS FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE CWA. MAIN CONCERN WITH THIS SYSTEM CONTINUES TO BE WINDS. SURFACE PRESSURE GRADIENTS HAVE REACHED ALMOST 12MB BETWEEN KLAX AND KLAS ATTM WITH WINDS BEGINNING TO INCREASE OVER THE WESTERN MOJAVE DESERT AS GUSTS TO NEAR 40 MPH HAVE BEEN REPORTED IN THE DAGGETT AREA. BEST UPPER SUPPORT WITH STRONGEST GRADIENTS TO BE NOW THROUGH ABOUT 06Z MONDAY BEFORE DECREASING INTO MONDAY MORNING. WILL CONTINUE WITH WIND ADVISORY FOR THIS AREA. WILL NEED TO MONITOR THE MORONGO BASIN AS GUSTY WINDS COULD FORM OVER THIS AREA OVERNIGHT. FOR MONDAY...PACIFIC TROUGH TO SHIFT EAST WITH VERY WEAK SHORT WAVE RIDGE ACROSS THE CWA MONDAY AFTERNOON AND TUESDAY. NEXT PACIFIC STORM TO THEN SHIFT INTO THE AREA TUESDAY NIGHT AND WEDNESDAY. CONSIDERABLE DIFFERENCES WITH TIMING/TRACK/INTENSITY OF THIS SYSTEM LEADING TO A FAIRLY LOW CONFIDENCE LEVEL IN THE FORECAST. 12Z RUNS SHOWS THE NAM TRACKING THE SYSTEM ALONG THE WESTERN CWA BOUNDARY BY 12Z WED...THE GFS HAS AN OPEN WAVE CENTERED OVER THE EASTERN NEVADA BORDER...WHILE THE EURO MUCH DEEPER WITH THE OPEN WAVE CONCEPT AND IN BETWEEN THE NAM/GFS. DUE TO THE UNCERTAINTIES...HAVE NOT CHANGED MUCH ON THE PREVIOUS FORECAST WITH THE EXCEPTION OF ALL MODELS ARE TRENDING TOWARDS LIMITING THE AMOUNT OF PRECIPITATION AS THE SYSTEM DIGS/SHIFTS/MOVES ACROSS THE AREA AND HAVE LOWER POPS ACROSS THE AREA TUESDAY NIGHT INTO WEDNESDAY MORNING. WILL LIKELY SEE AN INCREASE IN WINDS AGAIN ON TUESDAY AFTERNOON ACROSS THE WESTERN PORTION OF THE CWA WHILE COOLER AIR LOOKED FOR CWA WIDE INTO TUESDAY...NO MATTER WHICH MODEL YOU FOLLOW. IMPROVING CONDITIONS SHOULD BE TAKING PLACE LATE TUESDAY/TUESDAY NIGHT AS TROUGH SHIFTS OR BEGINS TO SHIFT EAST OUT OF THE AREA. && .LONG TERM...SYSTEM EXITS THE REGION WEDNESDAY WITH A DRY NORTHWEST FLOW OVERTAKING THE REGION. STILL HOLDING ONTO A FEW RESIDUAL SHOWERS OVER THE FAR EASTERN CWA WEDNESDAY...BUT EXPECT CHANCES TO DECREASE DURING THE DAY. HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD OVER THE AREA THURSDAY THROUGH THE WEEKEND WITH A GRADUAL WARMING TREND EACH DAY. MEX GUIDANCE IS SHOWING TEMPERATURES IN THE VEGAS VALLEY REACHING THE MID TO UPPER 80S BY NEXT WEEKEND. NOT MUCH IN THE WAY OF CLOUD COVER...BUT RAPID SNOWMELT OVER THE HIGHER TERRAIN MAY LEAD TO A FEW AFTERNOON CUMULUS. && .AVIATION...FOR MCCARRAN...SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST BETWEEN 10-18 KNOTS WITH OCCASIONAL GUSTS OVER 20 KNOTS WILL CONTINUE THROUGH 10Z AS A WEAK COLD FRONT APPROACHES THE VALLEY. CURRENT MODEL GUIDANCE IS SHOWING A WIND SHIFT TO THE NORTHWEST BETWEEN 10-12Z MONDAY MORNING. WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO DECREASE AS THE COLD FRONT MOVES THROUGH THE AREA WITH WINDS GENERALLY IN THE 6-10 KNOT RANGE. SKIES WILL REMAIN MOSTLY CLEAR WITH A FEW CLOUDS IN THE 14-16K FOOT RANGE. ANOTHER SYSTEM WILL APPROACH THE AREA TUESDAY BRINGING ANOTHER ROUND OF GUSTY WINDS TUESDAY AFTERNOON. FOR THE REST OF SOUTHERN NEVADA...NORTHWEST ARIZONA...AND SOUTHEAST CALIFORNIA...STRONGEST WINDS CONTINUE TO OCCUR OVER WESTERN SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY WITH SUSTAINED WEST WINDS OF 20-30 KNOTS ALONG WITH OCCASIONAL GUSTS OVER 40 KNOTS ARE LIKELY THROUGH 12Z MONDAY MORNING. ELSEWHERE SOUTHWEST TO WEST WINDS OF 16-26 KNOTS AND GUSTS OVER 30 KNOTS ARE POSSIBLE AS A WEAK COLD FRONT APPROACHES THE AREA. WINDS WILL DECREASE EARLY MONDAY MORNING AND SHIFT TO THE NORTHWEST AROUND 7-11 KNOTS. MID CLOUDS AROUND 10-12K FEET WILL REMAIN THROUGH 04Z OVER ESMERALDA...CENTRAL NYE...AND LINCOLN COUNTIES BEFORE DECREASING OVERNIGHT. LIGHTER NORTHWEST WINDS ARE EXPECTED MONDAY ALONG WITH MOSTLY CLEAR SKIES. && .VEF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NV...NONE. AZ...NONE. CA...WIND ADVISORY ZONE 523 IN EFFECT THROUGH 3 AM MONDAY. && HARRISON/JENSEN/GORELOW HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/LASVEGAS
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 405 AM PDT SUN APR 6 2008 AZZ001>003-036-CAZ519>527-NVZ014>022-070700- 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- 405 AM PDT SUN APR 6 2008 /405 AM MST SUN APR 6 2008/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST ARIZONA...CALIFORNIA AND SOUTHERN NEVADA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT A PACIFIC STORM SYSTEM WILL BRING STRONG WEST WINDS TO THE WESTERN MOJAVE DESERT THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. A WIND ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY. FOR MORE DETAILS...PLEASE REFER TO PRODUCT RNONPWVEF. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...MONDAY THROUGH SATURDAY WINDS IN THE WESTERN MOJAVE DESERT WILL SUBSIDE EARLY MONDAY MORNING. A STRONGER STORM WILL AFFECT MUCH OF THE REGION DURING THE MIDDLE OF THE WEEK...BRINGING BREEZY TO WINDY CONDITIONS...A CHANCE OF VALLEY RAIN AND MOUNTAIN SNOW...AND COOLER TEMPERATURES. QUIET WEATHER IS EXPECTED FRIDAY AND SATURDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED. HOWEVER...SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT ANY SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES. MORGAN
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV
530 PM PDT SUN APR 06 2008
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0233 PM NON-TSTM WND GST DAGGETT 34.86N 116.88W
04/06/2008 M46 MPH SAN BERNARDINO CA ASOS
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JHThe national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
This gust occurred 25 miles NNE of Daggett, CA.
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