Tornado, Cochise
- When
- August 29, 10:40 AM MST
- Where
- Cochise County, Huachuca City
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 10 yd
- Coordinates
- 31.630, -110.330
Short-lived tornado touched down briefly over open land.
Tornado and Damaging Wind in Arizona, August 29, 1993
1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
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- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 1
- Property damage
- $500,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
Event by event
1 tornado, 1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm Wind, Pinal
- When
- August 29, 9:50 PM MST
- Where
- Pinal County, Coolidge
- Injuries
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $500,000
- Coordinates
- 32.904, -111.345 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Thunderstorms and the associated microburst winds destroyed at least one unoccupied mobile home and severely damaged many others. Trees were uprooted and signs blown over as the storm moved to the northeast.
What these are
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornadoes and Hail in Nebraska, August 29, 1993
- Hail in North Dakota, August 29, 1993
- Tornadoes and Hail in South Dakota, August 29, 1993
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Kansas, August 29, 1993
- Tornado and Damaging Wind in California, August 29, 1993
- Damaging Winds in Texas, August 29, 1993
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Utah, August 29, 1993
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Indiana, August 29, 1993
- Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, August 29, 1993
More
Every storm in Arizona in 1993Every state in 1993This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Arizona, 1993Warnings in Arizona, August 1993
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 10316540, 10316453.