Another strong low pressure system moving through the Pacific Northwest brought high winds to portions of southeast California and western Nevada.
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The episode as NWS VEF wrote it up.
Another strong low pressure system moving through the Pacific Northwest brought high winds to portions of southeast California and western 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 Apr 26, 7:15 PM PST, 4 hours 45 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 815 PM PDT SAT APR 26 2008 .SYNOPSIS...STRONG HIGH PRESSURE WILL BUILD OVER THE AREA SUNDAY AND MONDAY WITH DIMINISHING WINDS AND TEMPERATURES CLIMBING SEVERAL DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL. COOLER TEMPERATURES AND INCREASING WINDS WILL THEN RETURN TO THE ENTIRE REGION THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK AS ANOTHER BROAD AREA OF LOW PRESSURE MOVES INTO THE WESTERN STATES. && .UPDATE...NORTH TO NORTHEAST WINDS HAVE SUBSIDED ACROSS THE REGION THIS EVENING WHICH HAS ALLOWED FOR THE EXPIRATIONS OF THE RED FLAG WARNING AND LAKE WIND ADVISORY. NORTH TO NORTHEAST WINDS ARE STILL EXPECTED TO REMAIN AROUND 10 TO 20 MPH THROUGH MIDNIGHT...BUT CONTINUE TO DECREASE OVERNIGHT. UPDATED THE ZONES TO REMOVE BOTH THE ADVISORY/WARNING. ZONE UPDATES HAVE BEEN POSTED AND NO OTHER CHANGES NECESSARY. && .PREVIOUS DISCUSSION...335 PM PDT SAT APR 26...SHORT TERM...GUSTY NORTH TO NORTHEAST WINDS ACROSS SOUTHEAST NEVADA AND NORTHWEST ARIZONA WILL GRADUALLY DIMINISH THIS EVENING AS THE BROAD TROUGH OVER UTAH AND COLORADO PULLS TO THE EAST OVERNIGHT AND SUNDAY. GUSTS HAVE BEEN EXCEEDING 35 MPH IN SOME AREAS OF THE COLORADO RIVER VALLEY AND THE LAKE WIND ADVISORY REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM THIS EVENING. THE RIDGE AXIS ALONG THE WEST COAST WILL MOVE OVER THE REGION SUNDAY THEN GRADUALLY BREAK DOWN AND SHIFT EAST MONDAY AS THE BROAD TROUGH CURRENTLY CENTERED ALONG 150W MOVES INTO THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST COAST. TEMPERATURES WILL ONLY CLIMB SLIGHTLY SUNDAY THEN JUMP ABOUT 10 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL MONDAY AND TUESDAY AHEAD OF THE INCOMING TROUGH. AS THE TROUGH SWINGS INLAND TUESDAY...SOUTHWEST WINDS WILL INCREASE CONSIDERABLY AND MAY BRING GUSTS OVER 40 MPH ACROSS THE WESTERN MOJAVE DESERT AND THE POTENTIAL FOR DOWNSLOPE WINDS ALONG THE EASTERN SIERRA. .LONG TERM...MODELS IN FAIR AGREEMENT WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. UPPER TROUGH PROGGED TO MOVE OUT OF THE PACIFIC NORTHWEST INTO THE NORTHERN GREAT BASIN WEDNESDAY. MOISTURE ASSOCIATED WITH THIS SYSTEM LOOKS LIKE IT WILL REMAIN NORTH OF THE FORECAST AREA BUT WINDS WILL BE A FACTOR WITH MUCH OF THE AREA GETTING BREEZY TO WINDY CONDITIONS. TEMPERATURES WILL DROP 5 TO 10 DEGREES ACROSS THE AREA COMPARED TO TUESDAY WITH THE LARGEST DROPS ACROSS THE NORTHERN ZONES. MAX TEMPERATURES WILL FALL ANOTHER 5 DEGREES OVER MUCH OF THE FORECAST AREA THURSDAY UNDER A DRY NORTHWESTERLY FLOW ALOFT. BREEZY NORTHERLY WINDS WILL LIKELY DEVELOP DOWN THE COLORADO RIVER VALLEY GIVEN THIS PATTERN WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND THURSDAY. MODELS DIVERGE FOR FRIDAY AND SATURDAY AND FOLLOWED THE PREFERRED EUROPEAN. THEREFORE LOOKING AT WEAK RIDGING OVER NEVADA FRIDAY WHICH MOVES OVER UTAH SATURDAY LEAVING OUR AREA IN A DRY WESTERLY FLOW. TEMPERATURES SHOULD REBOUND SOMEWHAT UNDER THIS SCENARIO AND SHOULD BE CLOSE TO NORMAL BY SATURDAY. && .FIRE WEATHER...GUSTY NORTH WINDS HAVE SUBSIDED ACROSS THE REGION AND THE RED FLAG WARNING HAS BEEN ALLOWED TO EXPIRE. NORTH WINDS 10 TO 20 MPH ARE STILL EXPECTED THROUGH THIS EVENING...BUT WILL CONTINUE TO DIMINISH OVERNIGHT. && .AVIATION...FOR MCCARRAN...NORTHEAST WINDS 10 TO 20 MPH WITH OCCASIONAL GUSTS TO 25 MPH ARE STILL CONTINUING OVER THE AREA. HAVE UPDATED THE TAF TO KEEP THESE WINDS THROUGH 05Z. BY LATE THIS EVENING...WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO DECREASE TO NORTHEAST AROUND 10 MPH AND THEN BECOME LIGHT BY MORNING. NO SIGNIFICANT CLOUDS ARE EXPECTED TONIGHT OR SUNDAY. FOR THE REST OF SOUTHERN NEVADA...NORTHWEST ARIZONA...AND SOUTHEAST CALIFORNIA...NO SIGNIFICANT CLOUDS ARE EXPECTED TONIGHT OR SUNDAY. SURFACE HIGH PRESSURE OVER NORTHERN UTAH WILL MOVE EAST INTO COLORADO TONIGHT. THIS WILL ALLOW NORTH TO NORTHEAST WINDS TO DECREASE AND SUSTAINED WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO BE AROUND 10 KNOTS OVERNIGHT. && .VEF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NV...NONE. AZ...NONE CA...NONE. && GORELOW/ADAIR/HARRISON HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/LASVEGAS
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 246 AM PDT SAT APR 26 2008 AZZ001>003-036-CAZ519>527-NVZ014>022-270700- 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- 246 AM PDT SAT APR 26 2008 /246 AM MST SAT APR 26 2008/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST ARIZONA...CALIFORNIA AND SOUTHERN NEVADA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT GUSTY NORTH WINDS CAN BE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON OVER LAKE MEAD AND DOWN THE COLORADO RIVER...WHERE A LAKE WIND ADVISORY IS IN EFFECT. FOR MORE DETAILS...PLEASE REFER TO PRODUCT RNONPWVEF. ELSEWHERE...HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS NOT EXPECTED. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY A STORM SYSTEM WILL BRING ANOTHER ROUND OF GUSTY WINDS TO THE MOJAVE DESERT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE WEEK. OTHERWISE...HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS NOT LIKELY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT ANTICIPATED...HOWEVER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT ANY SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES. MORGAN
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A spotter estimated winds gusting over 60 mph in the town of Dyer. Visibility was near zero, with rocks blowing through the air. The wind and rocks damaged the roof of the spotter's house.
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