A strong low pressure system moving into the area from the Pacific Northwest brought high winds to portions of southern Nevada.
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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.
A strong low pressure system moving into the area from the Pacific Northwest brought high winds to portions of southern Nevada.
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 May 26, 9:29 AM PST, 46 minutes earlier. Its key messages:
Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service Las Vegas NV 1029 AM PDT Tue May 26 2026 .KEY MESSAGES... * Gusty winds and cooler temperatures will spread across the region today. * Light showers are expected across the southern Great Basin midweek as a low pressure system sits over central Nevada. && .DISCUSSION...Today through the weekend. A strong low pressure system will drop into the region from the Pacific Northwest today. This system will bring cooler than normal temperatures to the region with temperatures dropping around 7 to 15 degrees from today to tomorrow. Gusty southwesterly winds will accompany this system with winds picking up later this morning as this low pressure system and associated 30 to 50 knot 700 mb jet move into the area. Elevated winds will linger across the region into Thursday with southerly winds picking up across northern Arizona tomorrow as the jet shifts overhead. Temperatures will gradually increase during the second half of the week, returning to near normal as we head into the weekend and the system clears out of the area. As the center of this low pressure system settles over the southwestern Great Basin on Wednesday and Thursday, precipitation chances will increase across Inyo County and the southern Great Basin. Given the more inland trajectory of this system, precipitation is expected to be light-to-moderate and favor areas of higher terrain. && .AVIATION...For Harry Reid...For the 18Z Forecast Package...Gusty southwesterly winds will be the rule through the forecast period. Gusts early in the period will be around 25KT, quickly increasing to 30-35KT through sunset. Winds and gusts will diminish somewhat overnight, with sustained speeds dropping to around 15KT with gusts to around 25KT, continuing thereafter. There will be some variability in wind direction, generally between 200-240 true, with winds expected to back more south-southwesterly Wednesday late morning onward. VFR conditions will prevail with FEW-SCT clouds at or above 15kft. Localized blowing dust will be possible over dry lake beds outside of the Valley, potentially resulting in some slantwise visibility reductions. For the rest of southern Nevada, northwest Arizona and southeast California...For the 18Z Forecast Package...Gusty southerly to southwesterly winds are expected across most of the region today, with sustained speeds around 20-25KT and gusts to 30-35KT common this afternoon through this evening. Near higher terrain and in downslope-favored areas, there will be some variability in wind direction, especially across the Owens Valley (including KBIH) where west-northwesterly winds will gust to 35-40KT this afternoon into tonight, becoming lighter thereafter. Across the western Mojave Desert/KDAG, winds will remain westerly, with the strongest gusts to 40-45KT this afternoon and tonight. Elsewhere, winds diminish somewhat overnight but remain elevated around 10-15KT with at least intermittent higher gusts to around 20KT expected. VFR conditions prevail with clouds generally at or above 12kft, though localized visibility reductions in blowing dust will be possible. && .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT...Spotters are encouraged to report any significant weather or impacts according to standard operating procedures. && DISCUSSION...Stessman AVIATION...Phillipson For more forecast information...see us on our webpage: https://weather.gov/lasvegas or follow us on Facebook and Twitter
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
3 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
A mesonet site on the Nevada National Security Site recorded high winds for much of the day.
Several mesonet sites on the Nevada National Security Site recorded high winds.
A Nevada Department of Transportation mesonet site recorded high winds.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Nevada in 2026Every state in 2026This day in weather historyWarnings in Nevada, May 2026
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 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 1342322, 1342324, 1342323.