Hail, Yavapai
- When
- September 15, 5:00 PM MST
- Where
- Yavapai County, 10 mi NE of Prescott
- Measured
- 2.75 in hail
- Injuries
- 2 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $18 million
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 34.650, -112.350
Tornado and Hail in Arizona, September 15, 1999
2 hail, 1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. 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
- 2
- Property damage
- $18 million
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 3
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 radar
The Flagstaff radar (KFSX), 106 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:00 UTC.
Event by event
2 hail, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Yavapai
- When
- September 15, 5:13 PM MST to 5:19 PM MST
- Where
- Yavapai County, Dewey
- Rating
- F0
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
- Coordinates
- 34.530, -112.230
Hail, Yavapai
- When
- September 15, 5:23 PM MST to 5:27 PM MST
- Where
- Yavapai County, Dewey
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Reported by
- TRAINED SPOTTER
- Coordinates
- 34.530, -112.230
For the second day in a row, vertical wind shear combined with monsoon moisture to produce several instances of severe weather. Hail did significant damage in Prescott Valley and in Dewey, with newspaper accounts indicate widespread damage to cars and skylights. Insurance claims from this days severe weather were approximately $18 million dollars. Two people were injuried by the falling hail.
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Flash Flooding in North Carolina, September 15 to 16, 1999
- Hurricane in Virginia, September 15 to 16, 1999
- Flash Flooding in Virginia, September 15 to 25, 1999
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in North Carolina, September 15 to 16, 1999
- Flash Flooding in North Carolina, September 15 to 19, 1999
- Hurricane in North Carolina, September 15 to 16, 1999
- Tornadoes and Damaging Wind in North Carolina, September 15, 1999
- Hurricane and High Wind in North Carolina, September 15 to 16, 1999
- Hurricane in North Carolina, September 15 to 16, 1999
- High Wind in Virginia, September 15 to 16, 1999
- Hurricane in South Carolina, September 15 to 16, 1999
- Flash Flood and Hail in Texas, September 15, 1999
More
Every storm in Arizona in 1999Every state in 1999This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Arizona, 1999Warnings in Arizona, September 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: 5723388, 5723389, 5723390.