High temperatures contributed to the death of one person in the Las Vegas area on September 10th. The high temperature was 93 degrees.
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The episode as NWS VEF wrote it up.
High temperatures contributed to the death of one person in the Las Vegas area on September 10th. The high temperature was 93 degrees.
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 Sep 10, 11:20 AM PST, 40 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION...UPDATE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 1220 PM PDT WED SEP 10 2008 .SYNOPSIS...AN AREA OF LOW PRESSURE MOVING SOUTHEAST ACROSS SOUTHERN NEVADA AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TODAY AND THURSDAY WILL CONTINUE TO BRING SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM CHANCES TO MAINLY SOUTHERN NEVADA AND NORTHWEST ARIZONA. A DRYING TREND IS EXPECTED FRIDAY AND OVER THE WEEKEND AS THE LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM FINALLY SHIFTS EAST INTO ARIZONA. && .UPDATE...MOIST AXIS SHOWING UP IN LATEST SFC ANALYSIS ACROSS EASTERN MOHAVE COUNTY ARIZONA...AND 0-6KM BULK SHEAR VALUES OVER 30KTS OVER THE SAME IS RAISING THE THREAT OF SEVERE WEATHER THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON AND INTO THE EARLY EVENING ACROSS EASTERN MOHAVE COUNTY. A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH HAS BEEN ISSUED UNTIL 7 PM PDT. CURRENTLY...THUNDERSTORMS ARE JUST NOW STARTING TO POP ALONG SR66...WEST OF PEACH SPRINGS. COVERAGE IS EXPECTED TO INCREASE QUITE A BIT BY 3PM PDT. HAVE SENT UPDATES TO ZONES TO REFLECT CHANGES. && .AVIATION...FOR MCCARRAN...FEW-SCT CLOUDS AOA 12K FEET THROUGH THIS AFTERNOON. TSTMS CANNOT BE RULED OUT AROUND THE LAS VEGAS VALLEY THIS AFTERNOON/EVENING BUT THE CHANCES OR TOO SMALL TO MENTION ANYTHING IN THE TAF...HOWEVER WILL THROW IN A CB WITH SKY COVER AFTER 22Z WED. WINDS WILL EVENTUALLY BECOME SOUTHWEST LATER THIS AFTERNOON AND GUSTS OF 15-20 KTS ARE EXPECTED AT TIMES. A FEW CLOUDS TONIGHT AOA 12K FEET WITH LIGHT DIURNAL WINDS. IN THE APPROACH CORRIDORS ISOLATED TSTMS ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON/EVENING. FOR THE REST OF SOUTHERN NEVADA...NORTHWEST ARIZONA...AND SOUTHEAST CALIFORNIA...ISOLATED TO SCATTERED TSTMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP THIS AFTERNOON MAINLY TO NORTH AND EAST OF LAS VEGAS...MAINLY OVER THE HIGHER TERRAIN AS WELL AS ALONG THE SIERRA NEVADA. EASTERLY STEERING FLOW SHOULD KEEP ANYTHING THAT POPS OVER THE SIERRA OUT OF THE OWENS VALLEY...HOWEVER WILL HAVE TO WATCH FOR ANYTHING THAT DEVELOPS OVER THE WHITE MOUNTAINS FOR POSSIBLE IMPACTS AT KBIH...FOR NOW WILL JUST GO WITH A CB HERE THIS AFTERNOON AFTER 20Z AS LOW LEVELS LOOK DRY. OTHERWISE JUST FEW-SCT CLOUDS AOA 12K FEET THIS AFTERNOON. EXPECTING SOUTHERLY WINDS WITH LOCAL GUSTS OF 15-25 KTS AT KBIH AND KDRA THIS AFTERNOON. FOR TONIGHT EXPECT FEW-SCT CLOUDS AOA 12K FEET WITH LIGHT DIURNAL WINDS. && .SHORT TERM...MODELS REMAIN CONSISTENT DROPPING A TROUGH SOUTHEAST ACROSS SOUTHERN NEVADA AND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA TODAY AND THURSDAY. WATER VAPOR SHOWS AN UPPER LOW JUST SOUTH OF LAKE TAHOE EARLY THIS MORNING WITH CLOUDS ON THE INCREASE OVER WESTERN CLARK COUNTY. LOW WILL SLOWLY SHIFT SOUTHEAST ALONG THE NEVADA/CALIFORNIA LINE AND BE BETWEEN BISHOP AND TONOPAH LATE THIS AFTERNOON. ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS HAVE BEEN PERSISTING IN ESMERALDA AND CENTRAL NYE COUNTY SINCE LAST EVENING UNDER AREA OF DIFFLUENCE IN NORTHEAST QUADRANT OF UPPER LOW. AS LOW SHIFTS SOUTHEAST DYNAMICS WILL SPREAD EAST INTO LINCOLN COUNTY. UPPER LOW REFORMS OVER SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA THURSDAY WITH SOME DIFFERENCES IN MOISTURE/INSTABILITY PROGS ACROSS SOUTHERN NEVADA. GFS FOCUSES BEST AREA OF MOISTURE/INSTABILITY ACROSS SOUTHEAST CALIFORNIA AND SOUTHWEST ARIZONA. NAM SPREADS AREA OF MOISTURE/INSTABILITY FURTHER NORTH INTO CLARK/SOUTHERN LINCOLN COUNTIES. NOT READY TO INTRODUCE THUNDERSTORMS INTO THE VALLEY THURSDAY BUT DID BUMP UP CLOUD COVER AS LOOKING FOR BETTER MODEL CONSENSUS WITH 12Z CYCLE. FORECAST AREA SHOULD BE DRY/STABLE ON FRIDAY AS UPPER TROUGH AXIS FINALLY CLEARS THE AREA. .LONG TERM...WARM AND DRY CONDITIONS EXPECTED OVER THE WEEKEND WITH HIGH PRESSURE IN CONTROL OVER THE AREA. THIS IS SHORT LIVED HOWEVER AS LOW PRESSURE SOUTH OF THE REGION COMBINES WITH AN AREA OF LOW PRESSURE TO THE WEST AND MOVES INTO THE SOUTHWEST EARLY NEXT WEEK. THIS WILL RESULT IN AN INCREASING CHANCE FOR SHOWERS/TSTORMS IN THE TUE-WED TIME FRAME...MAINLY NORTH AND EAST OF THE LAS VEGAS VALLEY. COOLER CONDITIONS ARE ALSO POSSIBLE FOR THIS LAST WEEK OF SUMMER BUT MODEL DISAGREEMENT CURRENTLY MASKS TO WHAT EXTENT OF COOLING CAN BE EXPECTED. && .VEF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NV...NONE. AZ...SEVERE WEATHER WATCH 896 FOR EASTERN MOHAVE COUNTY VALID UNTIL 700 PM MST. CA...NONE. && KENNEDY/STACHELSKI/PIERCE/SALMEN HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/LASVEGAS
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 532 AM PDT WED SEP 10 2008 AZZ001>003-036-CAZ519>522-524>527-NVZ014>022-110700- 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-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- 532 AM PDT WED SEP 10 2008 /532 AM MST WED SEP 10 2008/ 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 TODAY. ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE FROM THE SOUTHERN SIERRA CREST EAST INTO LINCOLN COUNTY...THEN ARCING SOUTHEAST ACROSS NORTHWEST ARIZONA. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...THURSDAY THROUGH TUESDAY AS AN AREA OF LOW PRESSURE SLOWLY MOVES ACROSS THE AREA ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE POSSIBLE MAINLY ACROSS SOUTHEAST CALIFORNIA AND NORTHWEST ARIZONA THURSDAY. DRY AIR WILL SPREAD ACROSS THE AREA FRIDAY AND CONTINUE THROUGH THE WEEKEND AS THE AREA OF LOW PRESSURE MOVES INTO ARIZONA. .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.
One person in the Las Vegas area died of heat-related causes.
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 | 2008-09-10 | 57 | Male | Outside/Open Areas | Direct |
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