High Wind, Cochise County
- When
- December 3, 10:00 AM MST to 5:00 PM MST
- Where
- Cochise County forecast zone
- Measured
- 58 kt (67 mph)
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
High Wind in Arizona, December 3, 1999
A dry cold front moving across southern Arizona brought gusty winds and areas of blowing dust. A peak wind of 58 mph occured at Douglas.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $10,000
- 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.
What happened
The episode as NWS TWC wrote it up.
A dry cold front moving across southern Arizona brought gusty winds and areas of blowing dust. A peak wind of 58 mph occured at Douglas. In northern Greenlee county a tree was blowin across Highway 191 blocking traffic just south of Hanagan Meadow.
Event by event
2 high wind. Local standard time, as filed.
High Wind, Northern Greenlee
- When
- December 3, 10:00 AM MST to 5:00 PM MST
- Where
- Northern Greenlee forecast zone
- Property damage
- $10,000
- Reported by
- DEPT OF HIGHWAYS
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
- Winter Storm in Wyoming, December 3, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, December 3 to 4, 1999
- High Wind in California, December 3 to 4, 1999
- Winter Storm in Colorado, December 3 to 4, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Texas, December 3, 1999
- High Surf in Hawaii, December 3 to 6, 1999
- Dense Fog in Wisconsin, December 3 to 4, 1999
- Hail in Oklahoma, December 3, 1999
- Heavy Snow in New Mexico, December 3 to 4, 1999
- Heavy Snow in Oregon, December 3, 1999
- Heavy Snow in Colorado, December 3 to 4, 1999
- Dense Fog in Wisconsin, December 3 to 4, 1999
More
Every storm in Arizona in 1999Every state in 1999This day in weather historyWarnings in Arizona, December 1999
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: 5720101, 5720102.