Flash Flood, Pima
- When
- August 9, 5:40 PM MST to 6:30 PM MST
- Where
- Pima County, Western Pima County
- Property damage
- $50,000
- Coordinates
- 32.097, -111.790 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Flash Flood in Arizona, August 9, 1996
Washes flooded and impassable. Tree limbs broken due to high wind in Ajo.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
- 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
- 0
- Property damage
- $50,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
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.
What happened
The episode as NWS TWC wrote it up.
Washes flooded and impassable. Tree limbs broken due to high wind in Ajo. Telephone lines down due to high wind in the town of Why. Several people stranded due to roads cut by running water.
The radar
The Tucson radar (KEMX), 112 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:39 UTC.
Event by event
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Flash Flood
- Flooding that begins within six hours of the rain that causes it, or of a dam or levee failure or ice jam release, often with deadly speed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Damaging Wind in South Dakota, August 9, 1996
- Hail in South Dakota, August 9, 1996
- Flood in Kansas, August 9 to 10, 1996
- Flood in Missouri, August 9 to 11, 1996
- Damaging Wind in New York, August 9, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Texas, August 9, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Texas, August 9, 1996
- Flash Flood in Pennsylvania, August 9, 1996
- Flash Flood in Oklahoma, August 9, 1996
- Hail in South Dakota, August 9, 1996
- Hail in South Dakota, August 9, 1996
- Hail in South Dakota, August 9, 1996
More
Every storm in Arizona in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyWarnings in Arizona, August 1996
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: 5572891.