A broad trough brought isolated high winds to the Mojave Desert.
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A broad trough brought isolated high winds to 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 Apr 24, 1:27 PM PST, 10 hours 48 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Las Vegas NV 227 PM PDT Mon Apr 24 2017 .SYNOPSIS...An active storm track in the western US will bring periodic gusty winds and batches of clouds to the region through the week. && .SHORT TERM...through Wednesday. A trough diving southeast across the intermountain west will drag a cold front across the entire area overnight tonight with breezy north winds and cooler temperatures taking over for Tuesday. Cannot rule out a few showers across the northeast fringes of the area /Lincoln and Mohave counties/ as the trough passes by tonight. By Wednesday the aforementioned trough will eject over the southern plains while more energy begins to reload off the British Columbia coast. Calmer winds and recovering temperatures expected for Wednesday. .LONG TERM...Thursday through Sunday. Northwest flow will dominate through Thursday as a developing trough begins to form early Friday near the four corners. Confidence has increased on the development of this system as the ECMWF, GFS and GFS ensemble have general good agreement on timing and further deepening of this trough. As this system develops and deepens, winds will likely be from the north-northwest and be gusty beginning as early as Thursday night through most of Saturday. Overall, northerly flow will continue through Sunday, but is expected to weaken considerably by Sunday morning as the system moves further east. There is the possibility of precipitation for portions of northern Lincoln Co. and northeast Mohave Co. as the low pressure system develops Friday afternoon through Saturday afternoon. Otherwise, no other mentionable chances for precipitation after Saturday. Temperatures are expected to drop by at least 8-10 degrees on Friday, which is 7-12 degrees below normal. Temperatures will slowly rebound back up to about normal by Sunday. && .FIRE WEATHER...Gusty west winds on Monday will transition to breezy north winds with gusts around 30 mph on Tuesday with afternoon humidities 10 to 20 percent. Dry air remains in place with similar or lower humidity on Wednesday, though generally calmer winds for most of the day before picking back up Wednesday evening and Thursday. Winds gusting over 35 MPH and humidity falling to at or below 10 percent look to increase fire danger for the end the week. && .AVIATION...For McCarran...West southwest winds will remain elevated, gusting around 25 knots, through tonight when a shift to the northwest is expected between 04-06z with frontal passage. Periods of SCT-BKN mid and high cloud coverage can be expected through early Tuesday. Northwest winds will lose gustiness late tonight remaining around 10-15 knots overnight. Northwest winds will be on the rise early tomorrow morning reaching sustained 15-20 knots gusting around 25 knots by mid morning which is expected to persist through the afternoon. Winds decrease Tuesday evening becoming more northerly around 10 knots or less. For the rest of southern Nevada...northwest Arizona...and southeast California...Gusty winds continue overnight in most areas with winds shifting form the west to northwest as a cold front passes overnight. San Bernardino County could see gusts of around 50 knots with visibilities reduced due to blowing dust/sand through tonight when winds begin to slowly decrease into tomorrow. Other areas along the I-40 corridor in NW Arizona and southern NV could see gusts of 30-35 knots through tonight. Northerly winds become breezy on Tuesday, especially north of I-15 where gusts of 30-35 knots will be possible. Most areas remain dry with isolated shower activity possible across northeast Lincoln county on Tuesday. && .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...Gusty winds are occuring across the western Mojave desert. Spotter are encouraged to report any damage or reduced visibilities through tonight. Another round of widespread gusty wind is possible by the end of the week. && Short Term/Fire...Steele Aviation...Guillet Long Term...Kryston For more forecast information...see us on our webpage: http://weather.gov/lasvegas or follow us on Facebook and Twitter
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
These winds occurred 38 miles ENE of Beatty.
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