I-15 Is Closed At Primm, And Reid Airport Experiences Delays, Due To Storm In Las Vegas

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According to the Federal Aviation Administration, severe winds will cause a one-hour delay in flights to Las Vegas.

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Harry Reid International Airport departures would experience an average 56-minute delay from 7:15 p.m. Tuesday to 1 a.m. Wednesday due to wind, the FAA warned in an alert.

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Arrivals within 1,400 nautical miles of Las Vegas were named in the warning as experiencing delays.

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The FAA imposed a brief ground halt at Reid earlier tonight, According to the reports

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According to Ian Gregor of the FAA, "the ground stop was from 6:38 until 8 p.m." It only applied to flights leaving from airports less than an hour's flight from LAS.

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The National Weather Service predicted that the strongest wind gusts will occur between 8 p.m. on Tuesday and midnight.

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By 10 p.m., rain also started to fall in the Centennial Hills area of the valley's western portion.

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The storm's "high winds and bad visibility" forced the closure of the southbound lanes of Interstate 15 in Primm late Tuesday night.

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Recall the March 2017 windstorm that devastated Las Vegas? The storm on Tuesday might go down in history as well.

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