High Wind in Spring Mountains, Nevada

High Wind August 20, 2023 · Spring Mountains, Nevada

82 mph

Measured gust (71 kt)

$10K

Damage as recorded

What the National Weather Service wrote

The peak gust was measured 3 miles NE of Mount Charleston. Several trees were blown down.

The wider storm

Eastern Pacific Hurricane Hilary made landfall on the Baja Peninsula early on the morning of the 20th and reached Southern California as a tropical storm that afternoon. The cyclone brought major flash flooding and damaging winds to the Spring Mountains, along with less severe flooding elsewhere in southern Nevada.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1136454. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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