Strong Pacific low pressure moving into the Mojave Desert kicked up widespread gusty southwesterly winds. Isolated dust storm conditions occurred.
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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.
Strong Pacific low pressure moving into the Mojave Desert kicked up widespread gusty southwesterly winds. Isolated dust storm conditions occurred.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 dust storm. Local standard time, as filed.
Dust storm conditions dropped visibility to 250 yards in the Cow Creek area.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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