Heavy Rain, Yavapai
- When
- August 29, 6:30 AM MST to 11:00 AM MST
- Where
- Yavapai County, Congress
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 34.600, -112.554 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Heavy Rain in Arizona, August 29, 2000
Heavy rain began falling in southwestern Yavapai County at around 630 AM. Upto three inches of rain were reported by 1100 AM.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. 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
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- 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 FGZ wrote it up.
Heavy rain began falling in southwestern Yavapai County at around 630 AM. Upto three inches of rain were reported by 1100 AM. (Three inches of rain fell in Yarnell, 1.5 inches in Bagdad and 1 inch in Kirkland.) Highway 71 was closed from the town Agila to Congress because of flooding. There was a rain caused rock slide reported on Highway 89 near Yarnell.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 heavy rain. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Heavy Rain
- Rainfall totals unusual for the place and season that did not produce a flood.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Heat in Texas, August 29 to 31, 2000
- Heat in Oklahoma, August 29, 2000
- Heat in Mississippi, August 29, 2000
- Heat in Texas, August 29, 2000
- Flash Flooding and Damaging Wind in California, August 29, 2000
- Dense Fog in California, August 29 to 30, 2000
- Flash Flood in Nevada, August 29, 2000
- Flash Flood in California, August 29, 2000
- Flash Flood in California, August 29, 2000
- Flash Flood in Utah, August 29, 2000
- Flash Flood in Arizona, August 29, 2000
- Flash Flood and Damaging Wind in California, August 29, 2000
More
Every storm in Arizona in 2000Every state in 2000This day in weather historyWarnings in Arizona, August 2000
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: 5172106.