Cooling temperatures overnight after light rain the previous evening led to isolated dense fog over the Mojave Desert.
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The episode as NWS VEF wrote it up.
Cooling temperatures overnight after light rain the previous evening led to isolated dense fog over the Mojave Desert.
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 Jan 27, 4:45 AM MST, 2 hours 40 minutes earlier.
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</html>PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV
607 AM PST TUE JAN 27 2015
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0556 AM DENSE FOG 7 W TWENTYNINE PALMS 34.14N 116.19W
01/27/2015 SAN BERNARDINO CA TRAINED SPOTTER
TRAINED SPOTTER REPORTS DENSE FOG WITH VISIBILITY REDUCED
TO BETWEEN 1/8 TO 1/4 MILE ALONG HWY 62 WEST OF
TWENTYNINE PALMS.
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JPULLINThe national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 dense fog. Local standard time, as filed.
The Lake Havasu City airport (KHII) briefly saw visibility of 1/4 mile in dense fog.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Arizona in 2015Every state in 2015This day in weather historyWarnings in Arizona, January 2015
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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 551767.