75 inch hail.
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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 FGZ wrote it up.
Doppler radar indicated a severe thunderstorm producing 0.75 inch hail.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
1 flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Observed rainfall amounts of 1 inch per hour came in from east Flagstaff. Local street flooding was reported in this area.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Arizona in 1998Every state in 1998This day in weather historyWarnings in Arizona, July 1998
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: 5662072.