High Wind, Central Deserts
- When
- January 30, 1:05 AM MST to 1:10 AM MST
- Where
- Central Deserts forecast zone
- Measured
- 51 kt (59 mph)
- Property damage
- $5,000
High Wind in Arizona, January 30, 1997
Surface high pressure caused strong gusty easterly winds across southeast Arizona.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $5,000
- 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.
Surface high pressure caused strong gusty easterly winds across southeast Arizona.
Event by event
1 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- High Wind
- Sustained non-thunderstorm winds of 40 mph or more for an hour, or gusts of 58 mph or more.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- High Surf in Hawaii, January 30 to 31, 1997
- Ice Storm in North Dakota, January 30, 1997
- Ice Storm in Minnesota, January 30, 1997
- High Wind in Wyoming, January 30 to 31, 1997
- High Wind in Montana, January 30, 1997
- Flooding in Illinois, January 30 to 31, 1997
- High Wind in Washington, January 30, 1997
- Winter Weather in Ohio, January 30, 1997
- High Wind in Montana, January 30, 1997
More
Every storm in Arizona in 1997Every state in 1997This day in weather historyWarnings in Arizona, January 1997
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: 5586435.