A Pacific storm system brought locally heavy rain to Clark County west of Las Vegas.
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A Pacific storm system brought locally heavy rain to Clark County west of Las Vegas.
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 Mar 6, 10:25 AM PST, 58 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Las Vegas NV 1025 AM PST Wed Mar 6 2019 .SYNOPSIS...Rain and high elevation snow will continue across the region today as a moisture plume associated with an Atmospheric River takes aim at the area. In addition to the precipitation, expect breezy to windy conditions across much of the region. Another storm is expected over the area Friday with increasing chances for showers, breezy winds and cooler temperatures that will linger over the weekend into early next week. && .UPDATE...Current satellite shows a decent AR plume stretched across the Southwest US this morning, with a nice vorticity lobe noted over south central CA. All this allowed for persistant moderate to heavy rain across a portion of the region as radar showed a conveyor belt of rain from souther CA through western UT. With record PWats, rain has been heavy at times, with flooding reported in parts of southern Inyo County this morning. Snow has been limited to the high terrain, however with heavier burst there have been reports of snow down to 6000ft in the Sierra, and 7500ft in the Spring Mountains. Expect current conditions to continue the next few hours and dip south and east through the afternoon. A cold front and upper level vort pushes eastward this afternoon and will dry things out enough to decrease precipitation rates and coverage by this evening. With still ample moisture available across such of the region, increase QPF this afternoon for locations south and east of I-15. Some instability has been noted as well on current mesoanalysis, especially in locations on the fringe of the rain and cloud shield this morning that had a few peaks of sun. This could help keep things going into the early afternoon as well as, and could even produce a few isolated thunderstorms through 21Z. This lined up well with hires model trends, though think they are a bit quick to shut things off after 18Z so highlighted the 18-21Z timeframe for continued widespread precipitation before dissipating as the front sweeps through. With this front, snow levels will drop so a brief change over to snow down to 7000ft is possible, however it should not last long so impacts will be limited. Breezy winds are still expected as well. Breezy winds and decreasing temperatures are still anticipated this afternoon. && .PREVIOUS DISCUSSION...532 AM PST Wed Mar 6 2019 .SHORT TERM...Wednesday through Friday. This AR event is underway with the main plume of moisture targeting the Sierra and the rest of Inyo County, central and southern Nye County, Lincoln County and Clark County through the morning hours. The HRRR forecasts moderate to heavy rain over Clark, Lincoln and northern Mohave County this afternoon with more showery type precipitation elsewhere. Models forecast weak instability over northern Inyo County, southcentral Nevada and northern Mohave County this afternoon increasing the potential for isolated thunderstorms in these areas. Will continue the Winter Storm Warning for the Sierra and Flash Flood Watch for Inyo County, western San Bernardino County, southern Nye County and portions of western Clark County. The next upper level wave will move through the area tonight however, this one will lack the tropical tap resulting in lighter precipitation amounts. Winds across the region today will be breezy to windy with gusts of 30-40 mph except in Mohave County where a Wind Advisory is in effect for winds gusting 40-50 mph. On Thursday, some brief drying is expected while the upper flow transitions from westerly to southwesterly in response to the next Pacific system approaching the area. This system moves into the area Thursday night and Friday but with limited moisture, precipitation amounts should be light. More notable will be breezy to locally windy conditions and cooler temperatures that will be 7-10 degrees below normal. .LONG TERM...Saturday through Tuesday. Little change was made to the extended forecast. Models carve out a longwave trough off the west coast with a closed low spending an excessive amount of time over water, giving it time to potentially tap tropical moisture. Models dig the low southward to northern Baja but then differ with the evolution beyond Monday afternoon and whether it will bring impactful weather to our CWA. Temperatures are forecast to remain below normal through this period. && .AVIATION...For McCarran...Light showers around the terminal are expected to continue into the early morning hours. Cloud bases will hover around 5-6 kft until another wave of showers pass through the Las Vegas Valley this morning. Gusty southwest conditions are expected through the remainder of the forecast period. Gusts to 20 kts possible until around 20Z when gusts can be as high as 25 kts. For the rest of southern Nevada, northwest Arizona and southeast California...Rain and vicinity showers will continue for all of the remaining TAF sites until around 15Z with the exception of the Colorado River Valley sites (KEED and KIFP) where showers have already subsided. Cloud bases will be lowest at KBIH at 2-3 kft. Elsewhere, cigs of 5-8 kft expected through the afternoon. Gusts for much of the region will start to increase in the late morning hours and last through the afternoon. Southwesterly sustained winds 10-20 kts with gusts to 30 kts possible before subsiding after sunset. && .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...Spotter activation is not anticipated at this time however, spotters are encouraged to report any significant weather according to standard operating procedure. && DISCUSSION...Salmen AVIATION...Varian && or more forecast information...see us on our webpage: http://weather.gov/lasvegas or follow us on Facebook and Twitter
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV
542 AM PST WED MAR 6 2019
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0524 AM FLASH FLOOD OLANCHA 36.28N 118.01W
03/06/2019 INYO CA LAW ENFORCEMENT
CHP REPORTED 4-5 INCH DEEP RUNNING WATER
WITH MUD AND DEBRIS ON SOUTHBOUND HIGHWAY
395.
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TB3PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV
738 AM PST WED MAR 6 2019
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0737 AM SNOW 1 W WEST BISHOP 37.36N 118.47W
03/06/2019 M7.0 INCH INYO CA DEPT OF HIGHWAYS
STORM TOTAL THROUGH 730AM. SNOW STARTED
AROUND 11PM LAST NIGHT.
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AWPRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LAS VEGAS NV
1113 AM PST WED MAR 6 2019
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0915 AM FLASH FLOOD 5 NNE TRONA 35.84N 117.34W
03/06/2019 INYO CA LAW ENFORCEMENT
SR-178 WASHED OUT DUE TO FLASH FLOODING NEAR
TRONA AIRPORT. ROAD CLOSED.
&&The Las Vegas radar (KESX), 68 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 19:21 UTC.
2 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Highway 159 was closed from the Red Rock Scenic Loop entrance to just west of Charleston Blvd due to flooding.
Bonnie Springs Rd was closed due to flooding.
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