Monsoon moisture fueled scattered thunderstorms over southern Nevada. A few storms produced flash flooding and severe weather.
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The episode as NWS VEF wrote it up.
Monsoon moisture fueled scattered thunderstorms over southern Nevada. A few storms produced flash flooding and severe weather.
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 Aug 24, 11:09 AM PST, 2 hours 51 minutes earlier.
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Las Vegas NV 1209 PM PDT Wed Aug 24 2022 .SYNOPSIS...Monsoon moisture returns for much of the area on southeast flow today, bringing increased thunderstorm chances for today, Thursday, and possibly Friday. Gradual drying trend is expected for the weekend which will continue into next week. && .SHORT TERM...through Friday. Starting to see convection initiate across the high terrain this afternoon near the Spring Mountains, with additional activity firing across the Colorado Plateau. Given the well mixed and unstable 12z sounding sampled this morning at VEF, expecting activity to develop quickly across the higher terrain before propagating southward on outflow boundary interactions. Current SPC Mesoanalysis suggests 500-1000 mixed layer CAPE extending southern Lincoln county southward, before increasing to over 1500 j/kg near the Colorado River Valley. Still favoring the 12z HREF's overall convective evolution, with early day through late afternoon scattered activity favoring Clark and Mohave counties before increasing in coverage and propagating southward into the Colorado River Valley through the evening. The Flash Flood risk will be greatest in this region where storms will be developing into an increasingly moist and unstable airmass within an environment of relatively weak steering flow, leading to slow moving strong thunderstorms. The Flash Flood Watch for these areas continues to look good through the evening hours. In addition to the flood threat, at least an isolated risk of damaging wind gusts will exist as a strengthening cold pool moves into the hot and well-mixed Lower river valley. Greatest risk for strong winds will exist from Laughlin to Lake Havasu, though storms most anywhere today will be capable of strong microburst winds. Similar conditions will continue tomorrow though uncertainty exists in morning cloud cover and overall storm coverage tomorrow. With the concerns about how things will organize today and ultimately influence tomorrow, held off on any watch Flash Flood Watch extensions for now, though additional watches will be possible tomorrow for some areas. Lingering storm chances will continue into Friday across mainly eastern Clark, Mohave, and Lincoln counties. .LONG TERM...Saturday through early next week. An increasing westerly flow aloft will develop over the weekend as weak troughing develops over the PacNW before sagging into the Great Basin. This will suppress our monsoon high to the south and allow some drier air to work into the region. This will lead to a decreasing trend in thunderstorm chances, with only very isolated storm coverage over the weekend across Northwest Arizona, and potentially dry conditions area-wide by early next week. Meanwhile, temperatures will hover near seasonal normals for late August. && .AVIATION...For Harry Reid...In general, winds will favor diurnal trends today. However, there will be substantial deviations from this pattern today due to thunderstorm activity in and around the Las Vegas Valley creating gusty, erratic winds from their direction. Vicinity showers could start as early as 19Z, with highest chances of storms directly impacting the terminal between 22 and 03Z. After sunset, winds will fall back into their diurnal patterns, generally below 8 kts. There is an indication that light showers persist around the Las Vegas Valley through the entire overnight period, but confidence at this time is not high enough to warrant including it in the prevailing TAF. SCT-BKN down to 5 kft possible this afternoon with stronger, overhead thunderstorms. For the rest of southern Nevada, northwestern Arizona, and southeastern California...Winds will tend to favor diurnal trends today, though convection at and around TAF sites will result in gusty, erratic winds from the direction of the storms. KBIH, KDAG, and the Las Vegas Valley will see greatest chances this afternoon from 19 to 00Z, with KIFP and KEED ramping up around sunset and lasting through 05Z. There is an indication that light showers persist in and around the Las Vegas Valley through the overnight period, but confidence at this time is not high enough to warrant including it in the prevailing TAF. SCT-BKN down to 5 kft possible this afternoon with overhead thunderstorms. && .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...Spotters are encouraged to report any significant weather or impacts according to standard operating procedures. && DISCUSSION...Outler AVIATION...Varian For more forecast information...see us on our webpage: https://weather.gov/lasvegas or follow us on Facebook and Twitter
The Las Vegas radar (KESX), 176 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:27 UTC.
2 flash flood, 1 dust storm. Local standard time, as filed.
Dust storm conditions reduced visibility to less than 1/4 mile in southeast Pahrump.
Highway 160 was flooded in both directions at Tecopa Road.
Water and debris flowed over Highway 160.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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