Valley suffers another round of storms; apartment building damaged
Mother Nature continued her monsoonal assault on Southern Nevada on Sunday, drenching parts of the valley while uprooting trees and knocking down power lines.
Wind gusts tore roofing off part of an apartment building on Vegas Drive near Rancho Drive on Sunday afternoon. The roofing hit other parts of the complex, breaking windows and a metal railing and injuring a small boy, Las Vegas Fire Department officials said.
The wind uprooted a nearly 60-foot-tall tree on Hollyhock Lane in downtown Las Vegas. The tree fell into the street between two parked cars, blocking the small cul-de-sac.
Another tree fell into a home near Vegas Drive and Simmons Street, coming to rest in a family’s living room. No one was injured in either incident.
The National Weather Service in Las Vegas issued flood and thunderstorm warnings as rain fell in places at the rate of a half inch an hour.
“It’s patchy,” said Brian Fuis, a spokesman for the service. “It could be dumping in your neighbor’s backyard while you’re getting nothing but a sprinkle.”
The forecast for today included a 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 11 a.m. Overall, the day is expected to be mostly sunny, with a high near 100 degrees and winds gusting up to 29 mph. The rest of the week should be sunny.
It was the end of a week of humid weather in the valley.
A massive desert thunderstorm complex roared across the Mojave Desert on Tuesday, flooding low areas of Red Rock Canyon National Conservation Area west of Las Vegas and stranding several motorists on nearby Bonnie Springs Road after a wash flooded, covering the road with water and mud.
Lightning from the thunderstorms spared two wildfires in remote areas at the Nevada National Security Site, formerly the Nevada Test Site, more than 100 miles northwest of Las Vegas.
Contact reporter Lynnette Curtis at
lcurtis@reviewjournal. com or 702-383-0285.
