Aug 21, 2023
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 National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 1136472). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.
This event is one of many recorded floods in Nye County. See the full FEMA flood zone map, NFIP claim totals, and disaster history for the area.