A storm system passing by brought isolated high winds to the Mojave Desert.
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A storm system passing by brought isolated high winds to the Mojave Desert.
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NWS Las Vegas, NV wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Apr 7, 7:49 AM PST, 3 hours 39 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Las Vegas NV 849 AM PDT Fri Apr 7 2017 .SYNOPSIS...A storm system moving into the region will bring widespread rain and snow to the Sierra through Saturday along with windy conditions to the remainder of the southern Great Basin and Mojave Desert today and Saturday. Rain chances will be lower east of the Sierra through Saturday. Dry conditions and a gradual warming trend are expected to begin Sunday and continue through mid-week. && .UPDATE...Raised morning sky cover as mountain enhanced high clouds cover much of San Bern and Clark counties. No other changes at this time. && .PREV DISCUSSION... 345 AM PDT Fri Apr 7 2017 .SHORT TERM...Tonight through Sunday night. Storm system moving into the west coast will bring widespread rain and snow to the Sierra along with gusty winds to the remainder of the area. Current radar was showing precipitation mostly being blocked by the Sierra, but there has been a little spillover at times. Owens Valley RAWS did measure a hundredth just after midnight, but so far no other sites have shown any measurements. Precipitation will continue to impact the Sierra through the day with the heaviest precipitation likely to occur Friday evening before a slight break followed by another round Saturday. Not much change in overall snow amounts for the eastern Sierra slopes and will continue with the snow advisory already in place. How much spillover is still in question, but places like Bishop in the Owens Valley could receive upwards of half an inch of rain spread over a 24 hour period. Precipitation will spread east Saturday, but amounts will be lighter with only a few hundredths expected east of Inyo County. This system does look fairly dry for southern Nevada and southeast California and have lowered pops in the valley locations, but even the higher terrain may only receive a few hundredths. Precipitation is expected to end by Saturday night as drier air moves into the region. Outside of precipitation in the Sierra, wind looks to be the main factor with this system for the remainder of our forecast area. There has been some gusty winds already this morning with Desert Rock seeing gusty winds over 40 mph due to downslope winds off the Spring Mountains. Observations in the NNSS have generally been in the 30-40 mph range, with a couple of locations in the lower 40s. Expect these winds to diminish around sunrise before increasing once again by late morning. The current wind advisory for Esmeralda, Nye, and western Clark County looks good and will keep the current start time at 10am. Hires models do suggest gusty winds in Lincoln County and across Death Valley National Park and have added those locations into the wind advisory for today. As this system sags a bit further south Saturday the models suggest a belt of strong winds to affect northern portions of San Bernardino, Clark, and northern Mohave Counties. Winds are likely to gust over 40 mph across those locations and have gone ahead and issued a wind advisory from 11 am until 5 pm for those gusty southwest winds. Warm temperatures expected over most areas today, but are expected to cool between 7-10 degrees Saturday along with further cooling of about 5-8 degrees on Sunday. Drier conditions along with lighter winds expected Sunday. .LONG TERM...Monday through Thursday. Models in reasonably good agreement during the first half of next week. Differences regarding onset and coverage of precipitation become more of an issue late week. Period starts out with fast zonal flow across the southwestern states Monday and Tuesday. Several upper level disturbances will quickly move through the area producing waves of high clouds. Last of any north breezes within the Colorado River comes to an end Monday morning. However, I would expect some south-southwest winds up to 15 mph to develop each afternoon. Temperatures look to be a few degrees above normal. An anomalously deep trough for early April will be digging southeast out of the Gulf of Alaska and will be nearing the Pacific Northwest Coast Wednesday. The trough moves slowly east on Thursday. South- southwest winds increase further Wednesday but more so on Thursday. Looks to be a good chance that wind headlines will be needed for some areas Thursday. Deep boundary layer mixing will lead to the warmest days of the week Wednesday and Thursday. Leading edge of precipitation reaches the southern Sierra Nevada Thursday. After Thursday, all bets are off as uncertainty increases as the operational GFS brings precipitation into the entire area Thursday night while the ECMWF keeps the showers central/southern California. .AVIATION...For McCarran...Southwest winds around 10 kts this morning will increase to around 15-25 kts by late morning and afternoon. Its possible gusts could exceed 30 kts, but confidence is lower. Gusty southwest winds are expected to continue overnight Friday. For the rest of southern Nevada...Northwest Arizona...and Southeast California...South to southwest winds will increase over most areas today with the strongest winds expected across Esmeralda, Nye, Lincoln and eastern Inyo Counties. Winds exceeding 35 kts will be likely. The remainder of the area will see winds generally 15-25 kts. Rain and snow likely in the Sierra and eastern slopes down to the Owens Valley with slight chances east of Inyo County. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...Spotters are encouraged to report any significant weather or impacts according to standard operating procedures. && Update...Morgan Short Term/Aviation...Gorelow Long Term...Pierce 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.
This gust occurred at Mercury-Desert Rock.
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