Strong north winds behind a cold front did minor damage.
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.
Strong north winds behind a cold front did minor damage.
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 Dec 26, 10:50 AM MST, 4 hours 10 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV 950 AM PST SAT DEC 26 2015 .SYNOPSIS...DRY...COLD...AND WINDY CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED ACROSS MUCH OF THE REGION TODAY INTO SUNDAY MORNING AS A POTENT WAVE MOVES ACROSS THE REGION. ANOTHER WAVE WILL BRING A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHOWERS TO PORTIONS OF THE AREA BY LATE MONDAY BEFORE A DRIER AND SOMEWHAT CALMER PERIOD OF WEATHER TAKES OVER FOR MUCH OF THE UPCOMING WEEK. && .UPDATE...WINDS HAVE BEEN INCREASING SIGNIFICANTLY ACROSS SOUTHERN NEVADA...EASTERN SAN BERNARDINO AND MOHAVE COUNTIES AFTER 15Z AS EXPECTED. GUSTS UP TO 51 MPH HAVE BEEN RECORDED AT BULLHEAD CITY AND SPEEDS SHOULD PEAK DURING THE LATE MORNING AND EARLY AFTERNOON SO THE HIGH WINDS WARNING SHOULD VERIFY. A MINOR UPDATE WAS MADE TO THE GRIDDED WIND/WIND GUST FORECASTS THROUGH THIS EVENING BASED ON THE LATEST OBSERVATIONS AND HIGH RES MODELS. OVERALL...THE REST OF THE FORECAST TRENDS LOOK FINE. && .PREV DISCUSSION... 232 AM PST SAT DEC 26 2015 .SHORT TERM...TODAY THROUGH MONDAY NIGHT. A REINFORCING SHORTWAVE AND ASSOCIATED JET STREAK WERE PLOWING SOUTH THROUGH SOCAL THIS MORNING. THIS WILL ACT TO TIGHTEN THE NORTH-SOUTH PRESSURE GRADIENT ACROSS THE REGION AND WILL RESULT IN GUSTY WINDS ACROSS THE AREA TODAY. HAVE EXPANDED THE WIND ADVISORIES NORTH TO INCLUDE MUCH OF CLARK...LINCOLN AND NORTHERN MOHAVE COUNTIES WITH THIS MORNING'S PACKAGE. SOME OF THESE AREAS COULD BE A BIT BORDERLINE (FOR INSTANCE THE CENTRAL PORTIONS OF THE LAS VEGAS VALLEY)...BUT DECIDED TO ERR OF THE SIDE OF CAUTION WITH HOLIDAY TRAFFIC AND THE POTENTIAL FOR STRONG CROSSWINDS AND AREAS OF BLOWING DUST. IN ADDITION I'VE UPGRADED THE WIND ADVISORY TO A HIGH WIND WARNING FOR THE MORONGO VALLEY AREA WHERE DOWNSLOPE/GAP FLOW COULD EXCEED 60 MPH TODAY. THE HIGH WIND WARNING FOR THE COLORADO RIVER VALLEY BETWEEN LAKE MEAD AND BULLHEAD CITY REMAINS IN PLACE. WINDS WILL DECREASE IN MOST AREAS OVERNIGHT...ALLOWING TEMPERATURES TO DROP TO NEAR OR BELOW FREEZING. NO CHANGES WERE MADE TO THE HARD FREEZE WARNING IN EFFECT FOR SUNDAY MORNING. AT THIS TIME GUIDANCE FOR MONDAY MORNING INDICATES THAT TEMPERATURES WILL DECREASE ALONG THE RIVER VALLEY (WHICH MAKES SENSE WITH LESS WIND) AND INCREASE SLIGHTLY ELSEWHERE. THIS IS COMPLICATED BY THE APPROACH OF ANOTHER WAVE FROM THE NORTHWEST WHICH COULD AID IN MIXING AS WELL AS BRING CLOUD COVERAGE. WE WILL CONTINUE TO EVALUATE WHETHER HARD FREEZE CONDITIONS WILL RETURN MONDAY MORNING. THIS NEXT SHORTWAVE WILL SLIDE ACROSS THE REGION MONDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT...BRINGING ENHANCED WIND AND A VERY SLIGHT CHANCE OF PRECIP TO THE REGION ONCE AGAIN. .LONG TERM...TUESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. BY TUESDAY MORNING THE AFOREMENTIONED STORM SYSTEM WILL BE EAST OF OUR AREA AND MOVING AWAY...LEAVING DRY WEATHER WITH CHILLY TEMPERATURES AND BREEZY NORTH WINDS IN ITS WAKE. HIGH AMPLITUDE RIDGING BUILDS ALONG THE WEST COAST WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY...BRINGING DRY WEATHER...BUT STAYS FAR ENOUGH WEST THAT IT LEAVES OUR AREA SUSCEPTIBLE TO NORTH WINDS AND REINFORCING SHOTS OF COLD AIR FROM SHORTWAVE TROUGHS ZIPPING DOWN THE FRONT SIDE OF THE RIDGE. WITH THAT IN MIND...TEMPERED THE FORECAST WARMING TREND A BIT...WITH TEMPERATURES REMAINING BELOW NORMAL THROUGH THE PERIOD. && .AVIATION...FOR MCCARRAN...GUSTY NORTH WINDS AND MOSTLY CLEAR SKIES ARE EXPECTED TO PERSIST THROUGH THE PERIOD. WINDS WILL SHIFT FROM NORTHWEST WITH GUSTS TO 25 KTS TO NORTHEAST WITH GUSTS TO 35 KTS. AREAS OF MECHANICAL TURBULENCE ARE POSSIBLE THROUGHOUT THE DAY. CALMER CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED SUNDAY. FOR THE REST OF SOUTHERN NEVADA...NORTHWEST ARIZONA...AND SOUTHEAST CALIFORNIA...GUSTY NORTH WINDS THROUGH THE PERIOD. THE STRONGEST NORTH WINDS ARE EXPECTED TO IMPACT LOCATIONS ALONG THE COLORADO RIVER VALLEY INCLUDING KIFP AND KEED WHERE GUSTS 40-50 KTS WILL BE POSSIBLE. AREAS OF BLDU AND MECHANICAL TURBULENCE ARE EXPECTED AS WELL...PARTICULARLY SOUTH OF LAS VEGAS. CALMER CONDITIONS ARE EXPECTED BY SUNDAY AFTERNOON. && .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...SPOTTER REPORTS OF WIND GUSTS OR WIND DAMAGE AS WELL AS ANY BLOWING DUST ARE REQUESTED SATURDAY INTO SUNDAY. && UPDATE...ADAIR SHORT TERM/AVIATION...WOLCOTT LONG TERM.............MORGAN FOR MORE FORECAST INFORMATION...SEE US ON OUR WEBPAGE: HTTP://WEATHER.GOV/LASVEGAS OR FOLLOW US ON FACEBOOK AND TWITTER
1 strong wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Strong winds tore several awnings from homes in Bullhead City. The airport measured a peak gust of 55 mph.
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