Nevada, 2010Flood in Nevada, October 4 to 8, 2010
October 4 to 8, 2010 · NWS REV · 1 event in 1 county or zone
Low pressure remained over central and southern CA for several days bringing periods of thunderstorms with heavy rain for western NV.
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- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
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.
Low pressure remained over central and southern CA for several days bringing periods of thunderstorms with heavy rain for western NV.
What forecasters said that day
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 Reno, NV wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Oct 4, 10:16 AM PST, 44 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Oct 4, 10:16 AM PST, 44 minutes before
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</html>Flood, Churchill
- When
- October 4, 11:00 AM PST to October 8, 8:00 AM PST
- Where
- Churchill County, 0.63 mi ESE of Fallon to 0.57 mi E of Fallon
- Cause
- Heavy Rain
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Reported by
- Newspaper
- Coordinates
- 39.468, -118.769
Two separate heavy rain events, one on the 4th and one on the 7th, caused ponding of water to more than one foot deep at the Ideal Mobile Home Park. Other areas of Fallon had periodic standing water and minor flooding, some due to poor drainage.
- Flood
- Flooding that develops more slowly than a flash flood: rivers leaving their banks, or water standing over land for an extended time.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Wind in Nevada, October 4, 2010$1.0 million · 60 kt wind · 5 events
- Damaging Winds in Arizona, October 4, 2010$3,000 · 52 kt wind · 4 events
- Hail in Connecticut, October 4, 20101.75 in hail · 2 events
- Flash Flooding in Arizona, October 4, 2010$3,000 · 2 events
- Hail in Arizona, October 4, 2010$5,000 · 0.75 in hail · 2 events
- Storm Surge in New York, October 4, 20102 events
- Lightning Strike in Arizona, October 4, 2010$5,000 · 1 event
- Dust Storm in California, October 4, 20101 event
- Damaging Wind in New Mexico, October 4, 2010$5,000 · 52 kt wind · 1 event
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: 265666.