High Wind, Upper Gila River Valley
- When
- February 27, 4:45 PM MST to 4:46 PM MST
- Where
- Upper Gila River Valley forecast zone
- Measured
- 53 kt (61 mph)
A strong winter storm produced a wind gust over 53 kt at Sierra Vista.
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.
The episode as NWS TWC wrote it up.
A strong winter storm produced a wind gust over 53 kt at Sierra Vista.
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Arizona in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyWarnings in Arizona, February 1997
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