Two low pressure areas interacted and brought widespread rain and flooding to the Mojave Desert.
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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.
Two low pressure areas interacted and brought widespread rain and flooding 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 Nov 20, 4:19 AM MST, 18 minutes earlier.
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</html>PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV
1006 PM PST TUE NOV 19 2019
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0944 PM FLASH FLOOD 7 NW VIDAL JUNCTION 34.27N 114.65W
11/19/2019 SAN BERNARDINO CA LAW ENFORCEMENT
CHP REPORTS NUMEROUS AMOUNTS OF DEBRIS AND
WATER CROSSING ROADWAY ALONG US95 NORTH OF
VIDAL JUNCTION.
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COPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV
1100 PM PST TUE NOV 19 2019
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1058 PM FLASH FLOOD 1 WSW VIDAL JUNCTION 34.19N 114.58W
11/19/2019 SAN BERNARDINO CA DEPT OF HIGHWAYS
HIGHWAY 62 CLOSED DUE TO FLOODING. REPORTED
VIA TWEET FROM CALTRANS DISTRICT 8.
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COPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV
1105 PM PST TUE NOV 19 2019
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
1052 PM FLASH FLOOD 10 W RICE 34.10N 115.03W
11/19/2019 SAN BERNARDINO CA LAW ENFORCEMENT
CHP REPORTS VEHICLE STRANDED IN THE MIDDLE
OF FLOODED ROADWAY.
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COThe Las Vegas radar (KESX), 114 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 11:39 UTC.
4 flash flood, 1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
The Sacramento Wash flooded the Oatman-Topock Highway.
Several roads were closed due to flooding.
Pierce Ferry Road was closed from mile marker 15 to 18 due to flooding of the Archibald Wash.
Oatman Highway was closed from mile marker 26 to 39.
Antares Road was closed from Pierce Ferry Road to mile marker 22.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Arizona in 2019Every state in 2019This day in weather historyWarnings in Arizona, November 2019
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: 863945, 863942, 863943, 863944, 863946.