The Las Vegas Weather Service warned of winds approaching 70 miles per hour, Get Twitter followers “To take cover now!” Las Vegas Fire and Rescue chirp It responded to 330 calls to the service, mostly related to the weather, and rescued seven people in fast waters.
Multiple junctions flooded. The Las Vegas Review-Journal reports that more than 7,000 customers experience blackouts after 10 p.m.
A video I received from an employee who works near the Circa Sports Book. Clean up after the flood that just happened. You definitely don’t see this every day. @8NewsNow #8NN
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– Victoria Saha 29 July 2022
Instead of seeping into the desert terrain, rainwater tends to accumulate in Las Vegas, which means that relatively little rainfall can lead to flooding.
Storms brought on by the monsoons prompted the National Weather Service to issue warnings of severe thunderstorms and flash floods Thursday night. Radar showed a narrow but intense lane of storms that swept through Vegas around 8:30 p.m. local time. from the north.
Harry Reid International Airport received 0.32 inches of rain — about the average amount for the entire month of July — while “some pockets of the city picked up more than an inch,” the weather service wrote.
Thursday marks the second night of monsoon storms in the city, with more expected across the Southwest, according to the National Weather Service.
Summers in Nevada were dry. Water levels in Lake Mead have reached their lowest level since 1937, according to NASA, revealing three groups of human remains in the reservoir since May.
On the other side of the country, catastrophic flooding in eastern Kentucky has killed at least 16 people since Wednesday. Historic rains around St. Louis on Tuesday led to flash floods that killed one person. Heavy precipitation is each considered one event in every 1,000 years.