A strong Pacific storm system brought unsettled weather to the Mojave Desert. A landspout caused minor damage along a half mile track in San Bernardino County.
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A strong Pacific storm system brought unsettled weather to the Mojave Desert. A landspout caused minor damage along a half mile track in San Bernardino County.
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 16, 2:28 PM PST, 37 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Las Vegas NV 328 PM PDT Tue Apr 16 2019 .SYNOPSIS... A storm system passing through the region today is bringing cooler temps, showers, and isolated storms to much of the area. Dry, warm weather is expected Wednesday through Friday as temperatures rise well above seasonal normals. && .DISCUSSION...Today through Monday. Trough, currently located over the southern Great Basin, will continue to dig southward and close off over northern Arizona this evening. The associated sfc cold front has made it through the northern half of our area and is now located right around the I-15 corridor in southern NV and northwest AZ. The initial Mohave County pre-frontal band of showers is now exiting to the east of Mohave County while the more robust area of activity is continuing to develop just north and west of I-15. Inyo County and southern Nye County have already sprouted a few thunderstorms in the Owens Valley and Death Valley NP this afternoon. Instability is focused in these areas currently as well as northern San Bernardino County as the clouds yielded enough sunshine to allow for some sfc heating. Mid-level lapses continue to look supportive of some small hail and gusty winds. Elsewhere, storms will be much more isolated having been shrouded in cloud cover for much of the day so far. Showers and storms will continue to shift southeastward going into tonight; exiting southern Nevada this evening and northwest Arizona late tonight. Gusty winds will likely follow the frontal passage and accompany shower and thunderstorm activity with gusts around 40 mph possible. The cooler temps today will be short-lived as the trough progresses eastward across AZ/NM tomorrow and high pressure builds in behind through the end of the work week. Temps will come back up quickly to near normal on Wednesday and continue to warm through Friday under prevailing ridge. Breezy, northerly winds will be present on Wednesday. The Colorado River Valley will be borderline for a Lake Wind Advisory as wind speeds come up to 20-25 mph but winds above 25 mph look to be short-lived in any one spot. The ridge will shift eastward Friday into Saturday as a series of shortwaves pass through the region. One will pass to the south Friday night into Saturday with little more than a supply of additional high clouds and the second and third will pass across the southern Great Basin Saturday and Sunday. These waves will moderate temps Saturday and decrease temps a few degrees going to Sunday. Any shower potential looks limited to the southern Great Basin both days with breezy, southwest winds elsewhere on Saturday. && .AVIATION...For McCarran...Light rain showers and associated lower cigs around 6 kft will continue through around 02Z this evening. The prevailing wind direction should stay from the northwest, however the direction and speed could be quite variable due to the passing showers. After 02Z, cigs will start to lift as clouds decrease through the evening hours. Guidance shows a northwest wind building back in across the valley late evening and overnight with gusts up to 25 kts. Wind speeds will begin to decrease Wednesday afternoon with the wind direction taking on a more northeast direction. For the rest of southern Nevada, northwest Arizona and southeast California...Scattered to numerous rain showers and isolated thunderstorms will continue across southeast California, southeast Nevada and northwest Arizona. The activity will dissipate from west to east with precipitation clearing southeast Mohave County between 10 and 11 pm MST. The strong westerly winds concentrated over the western Mojave Desert will weaken early this evening while northwest winds overspread the region. Strongest north winds will be confined to the Colorado River between Lake Mohave and Lake Havasu City through Wednesday. && .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...Spotters are encouraged to report any significant weather or impacts according to standard operating procedures. && DISCUSSION...Guillet AVIATION....Pierce For more forecast information...see us on our webpage: http://weather.gov/lasvegas or follow us on Facebook and Twitter
The Edwards AFB radar (KEYX), 59 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:06 UTC.
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
A landspout tornado entered San Bernardino County from Kern County and tracked roughly a half mile northeast before dissipating in open desert. One truck was damaged, and one window was broken out of a home.
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