A series of Pacific storms brought high winds and heavy snow to portions of southeast California and southern Nevada.
Every event with a place to put it; 4 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.
A series of Pacific storms brought high winds and heavy snow to portions of southeast California and southern Nevada.
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 Feb 1, 4:25 AM PST, 5 minutes earlier.
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</html>HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 550 AM PST THU JAN 31 2008 CAZ519>521-010800- EASTERN SIERRA SLOPES-OWENS VALLEY-WHITE MOUNTAINS OF INYO COUNTY- 550 AM PST THU JAN 31 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTHEAST CALIFORNIA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT INCREASING WINDS OVER THE SOUTHERN SIERRA CREST LATE TODAY AND TONIGHT WILL LEAD TO THE POTENTIAL FOR STRONG DOWNSLOPE WINDS IN SECTIONS OF THE OWENS VALLEY AND ADJACENT EASTERN SIERRA SLOPES THIS EVENING THROUGH FRIDAY MORNING. DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY A PACIFIC STORM FORECAST TO SWING INTO CALIFORNIA LATE SATURDAY AND SUNDAY WILL BRING THE POTENTIAL FOR SIGNIFICANT SNOW ACCUMULATION TO THE MOUNTAINS OF INYO SATURDAY NIGHT AND SUNDAY. THE PROGRESSIVE WEATHER PATTERN WILL PERSIST THROUGH WEDNESDAY AS ANOTHER LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM MOVES ACROSS NORTHERN CALIFORNIA AND BRINGS THE POTENTIAL FOR STRONG WINDS TO THE SOUTHERN SIERRA AGAIN WEDNESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED BUT REPORTS OF SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE ENCOURAGED. AZZ001>003-036-CAZ522>527-NVZ014>022-010800- NORTHWEST PLATEAU-LOWER COLORADO RIVER VALLEY-NORTHWEST DESERTS- LAKE MEAD NATIONAL RECREATION AREA-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- 550 AM PST THU JAN 31 2008 /650 AM MST THU JAN 31 2008/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST ARIZONA...SOUTHEAST CALIFORNIA AND SOUTHERN NEVADA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY A PACIFIC STORM WILL MOVE ACROSS THE REGION LATE SATURDAY AND SUNDAY BRING GUSTY SOUTHWEST WINDS AND THE POTENTIAL FOR SIGNIFICANT SNOW ACCUMULATIONS TO THE MOUNTAINS. GUSTY NORTH WINDS WILL DEVELOP BEHIND THE SYSTEM MONDAY FOLLOWED BY DRY CONDITIONS WITH LOW PROBABILITY OF HAZARDOUS WEATHER TUESDAY AND WEDNESDAY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION WILL NOT BE NEEDED BUT REPORTS OF SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ARE ENCOURAGED. JGA
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
3 high wind, 1 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
This gust occurred 4 miles SW of Independence.
An observer recorded 12 inches of snow in Aspendell (8500'). High winds also occurred during the event, with a peak gust of 72 mph at 0432 PST on the 3rd. The wind piled the snow into drifts six to seven feet high.
This gust occurred 1 mile N of Yucca Valley. Another spotter 5 miles NNE of Yucca Valley recorded a gust of 102 mph at 1130 PST, but since it was measured on a rooftop sensor, it is believed to be unrepresentatively high due to the Bernoulli effect.
This gust occurred at Daggett (KDAG).
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in California in 2008Every state in 2008This day in weather historyWarnings in California, February 2008
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 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 77053, 77056, 77054, 77055.