One man died of heat related causes in the Lake Mead National Recreation Area. His companion is still missing.
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.
One man died of heat related causes in the Lake Mead National Recreation Area. His companion is still missing.
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 Jun 3, 9:22 AM MST, 2 hours 38 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 922 AM PDT TUE JUN 3 2014 .SYNOPSIS...DRY CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED TO CONTINUE ACROSS THE AREA INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK WITH PERIODS OF GUSTY WINDS MAINLY IN THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS. TEMPERATURES ARE EXPECTED TO REMAIN ABOVE NORMAL WITH A WARMING TREND EXPECTED OVER THE WEEKEND INTO EARLY NEXT WEEK. && .UPDATE...THE SKY HAS CLEARED EVERYWHERE EXCEPT THE FAR SOUTHEAST CORNER OF THE CWA IN SOUTHERN MOHAVE COUNTY. THE 12Z SOUNDING SHOWED EXTREMELY DRY CONDITIONS IN PLACE THROUGHOUT THE TROPOSHERE THIS MORNING WITH A 3-5 DEGREE COOLER LAYER (COMPARED TO 5 AM YESTERDAY) FROM THE SURFACE UP THROUGH 700MB. AFTERNOON HIGH TEMPERATURES MAY BE A LITTLE BIT OPTIMISTIC IN SOME AREAS BUT ONLY BY A DEGREE OR TWO. NO UPDATES PLANNED AT THIS TIME. -SALMEN- .PREVIOUS DISCUSSION...349 AM DT... .SHORT TERM...TODAY THROUGH THURSDAY NIGHT. THE PESKY HIGH CLOUDS THAT SHOWED UP LAST NIGHT WERE FINALLY STARTING TO DEPART TO THE EAST AS THE MAIN FEED OF HIGH LEVEL MOISTURE GETS SHOVED EAST DUE TO THE NEXT PIECE OF ENERGY DROPPING SOUTH OFF THE OREGON COAST. LOTS OF DRY AIR ALOFT WILL SPREAD INTO THE AREA TODAY, HOWEVER, SOME CUMULUS SHOULD STILL POP UP OVER THE SOUTHERN SIERRA AND HIGHER TERRAIN OF ESMERALDA COUNTY THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. WITH SLIGHTLY LOWER HEIGHTS IN PLACE TODAY, HIGH TEMPS SHOULD BE A LITTLE LOWER, HOWEVER, WE STILL EDGED NUMBERS CLOSER TO THE WARMER MET GUIDANCE. WINDS WILL ALSO BE DOWN AS UPPER LEVEL SUPPORT AND SURFACE PRESSURE GRADIENTS ARE WEAKER. DRY WEST-SOUTHWEST FLOW ALOFT SHOULD KEEP IT CLEAR TONIGHT. FOR WEDNESDAY, THE NEXT PIECE OF ENERGY SHOULD DROP INTO NORCAL. AS WAS THE CASE WITH YESTERDAY'S SYSTEM, IT STILL LOOKS TOO STABLE EVEN THOUGH A BIT MORE MID-LEVEL MOISTURE IS AROUND. WE HAVE KEPT POPS BELOW 15 PERCENT AND JUST SHOWED AN INCREASE IN CLOUDS IN THE AFTERNOON/EVENING OVER THE HIGHER TERRAIN OF INYO AND ESMERALDA COUNTY AS CUMULUS SHOULD POP UP. FOR THE REST OF THE AREA EXPECT ANOTHER RELATIVELY SUNNY DAY WITH WARM TEMPS. HIGHS SHOULD RISE A DEGREE OR TWO FROM TUESDAY. ANOTHER PIECE OF ENERGY IS SHOWN TO CROSS CALIFORNIA AND NEVADA ON THURSDAY. MODELS ARE A LITTLE MORE WISHY-WASHY WITH THIS, WITH THE REGIONAL WRF MUCH MORE BULLISH ON BRINGING MORE MID-LEVEL MOISTURE SOUTH IN THE SIERRA. FOR NOW, WE HAVE KEPT POPS BELOW 15 PERCENT AND JUST SHOWED AN INCREASE IN AFTERNOON/EVENING CLOUDS OVER THE NORTHWEST CWFA. SINCE THE MEAN TROUGH DIGS A LITTLE MORE, WINDS IN THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING SHOULD PICK UP MORE, ESPECIALLY AROUND BARSTOW, WITH GUSTS OF 20-35 MPH LIKELY. TEMPS SHOULD RISE ANOTHER DEGREE OR TWO FROM WEDNESDAY. WE CONTINUED TO FAVOR THE WARMER END OF GUIDANCE. THURSDAY NIGHT SHOULD BE DRY WITH A RELATIVELY CLEAR SKY. .LONG TERM...FRIDAY THROUGH TUESDAY. BROAD TROUGH WILL EXIT THE REGION FRIDAY REPLACED BY HIGH PRESSURE THAT WILL BRING VERY WARM TEMPERATURES TO THE AREA. ALTHOUGH WE MAY KEEP SOME MID LEVEL MOISTURE OVER CENTRAL NEVADA EACH AFTERNOON THIS SHOULD DEVELOP INTO NOTHING MORE THAN A FEW CUMULUS OVER THE HIGHER TERRAIN. TEMPERATURES ON FRIDAY WILL GENERALLY REMAIN AROUND 3-5 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL...BUT READINGS BY SUNDAY ARE EXPECTED TO JUMP TO AROUND 5-8 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL. THIS COULD PUT US CLOSE TO EXCESSIVE HEAT CRITERIA...BUT AT THIS TIME HAVE KEPT READINGS AROUND 2 DEGREES BELOW THIS CRITERIA. && .AVIATION...FOR MCCARRAN...WINDS SHOULD FAVOR TYPICAL DIURNAL TRENDS AT 6-12 KTS. A CLEAR SKY IS EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON INTO TONIGHT. FOR THE REST OF SOUTHERN NEVADA...NORTHWEST ARIZONA...AND SOUTHEAST CALIFORNIA...WINDS SHOULD FAVOR TYPICAL DIURNAL TRENDS THROUGH TONIGHT WITH AFTERNOON AND EVENING GUSTS TO 15-25 KTS MAINLY IN THE OWENS VALLEY AND AROUND KDAG. SCT-BKN CLOUDS AOA 25K FEET SE OF KEED SHOULD DECREASE BY THIS AFTERNOON. A FEW CLOUDS AOA 15K FEET OVER THE HIGHER TERRAIN OF INYO AND ESMERALDA COUNTIES THIS AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING. && .VEF WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... NV...NONE. AZ...NONE. CA...NONE. && SHORT TERM/AVIATION...STACHELSKI LONG TERM...GORELOW FOR MORE FORECAST INFORMATION...SEE US ON OUR WEBPAGE: HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/LASVEGAS OR FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK AND TWITTER
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 303 AM PDT TUE JUN 3 2014 AZZ001>003-036-CAZ519>527-NVZ014>022-040115- 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- 303 AM PDT TUE JUN 3 2014 /303 AM MST TUE JUN 3 2014/ THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF NORTHWEST ARIZONA...CALIFORNIA AND SOUTHERN NEVADA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...WEDNESDAY THROUGH MONDAY NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... SPOTTER ACTIVATION IS NOT EXPECTED AT THIS TIME. HOWEVER... SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT ANY SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES.
1 heat. Local standard time, as filed.
One man died of heat related causes while hiking to Arizona Hot Spring. A woman believed to have accompanied him on the hike is still missing.
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, Lake Mead National Recreation Area | 2014-06-03 | 62 | Male | Outside/Open Areas | Direct |
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