Thunderstorm Wind, Pima
- When
- July 24, 5:00 PM MST to 5:30 PM MST
- Where
- Pima County, 5 mi SE of Komelik
- Injuries
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $50,000
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 31.667, -111.700
Damaging Wind in Arizona, July 24, 2001
Strong winds from a severe thunderstorm in Kohatk, 20 miles west of Eloy, damage caused to 4 homes by tearing the roofs off. A reporter witnessed one roof being hurled 80 yards and injuring one person.
Where it happened
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The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 1
- Property damage
- $50,000
- 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.
Strong winds from a severe thunderstorm in Kohatk, 20 miles west of Eloy, damage caused to 4 homes by tearing the roofs off. A reporter witnessed one roof being hurled 80 yards and injuring one person.
What forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Tucson, AZ wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 24, 2:30 PM MST, 2 hours 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 24, 2:30 PM MST, 2 hours 30 minutes before
SOUTHEAST ARIZONA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON AZ 230 PM MST TUE JUL 24 2001 SYNOPSIS...A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM OVER CENTRAL CALIFORNIA WILL COMBINE WITH MONSOON MOISTURE FOR AN INCREASE IN MONSOON THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY THE NEXT FEW DAYS. DISCUSSION...CURRENT THINKING IS THAT SURGE MOISTURE IS MOVING UP THE GULF OF CALIFORNIA...WITH SOME OF THIS ALREADY BLEEDING INTO STATE. PRECIPITABLE WATER VALUES ARE CONTINUING TO INCREASE ALONG EAST SIDE OF GULF OF CALIFORNIA...WITH 1.5 INCH VALUES NOW NEAR PUERTO PENASCO. STORMS ALREADY BREAKING OUT WEST OF TUCSON...IN BEST MOISTURE FEED AND MOVING NORTHWARD AT A DECENT PACE. STRUCTURE OF STORMS IS DIFFERENT THAN TYPICAL MONSOON. LOW LEVEL DEW POINT TEMPERATURES HAVE INCREASED AT CGZ AND TUS SO HAVE UPPED POPS THIS EVENING. STORMS SEEM TO BE MOVING TOO FAST FOR FLASH FLOODING...STILL WILL HAVE TO MONITOR. MODELS FORECAST FORECAST BLOW UP IN MEXICO TONIGHT AND MOVING INTO SOUTHEAST ARIZONA OVERNIGHT SO HAVE ADDED WORDING TO REFLECT THIS. IF THIS IS A GOOD SURGE...POPS TOMORROW ARE TOO LOW...BUT PREFER TO WAIT AND SEE AND LET MIDS HANDLE THIS. STILL HAVE BEEFED UP WORDING TO PUT US BACK IN STANDARD MONSOON PACKAGE. .TWC...NONE. HOLBROOK
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jul 24, 11:47 AM MST, 5 hours 13 minutes before
AZZ019-029>035-250700- SOUTHEAST ARIZONA HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON AZ 1145 MST TUE JUL 24 2001 .SYNOPSIS...LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM OVER CENTRAL CALIFORNIA WILL CONTINUE TO PUSH DRIER AIR INTO WESTERN ARIZONA...BUT THERE WILL STILL BE MID LEVEL MOISTURE IN SOUTHEASTERN PORTIONS OF ARIZONA. THIS WILL LEAD TO AFTERNOON AND EARLY EVENING THUNDERSTORMS...MAINLY OVER THE MOUNTAINS. BEST SEVERE THUNDERSTORM AND FLASH FLOODING THREATS WILL BE IN THE MOUNTAINS....HOWEVER THIS WILL BE LOWER THAN CLIMATOLOGICAL VALUES. .DISCUSSION...SOME CU STARTING TO POP UP AROUND THE CWA. THE THREAT OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS IS NOT HIGH...AND THE THREAT OF FLASH FLOODING IS EVEN LOWER THAN THAT. THE MAJORITY OF THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY TODAY WILL BE OVER THE MOUNTAINS...WITH THE BEST CHANCE OF ACTIVITY OUT EAST WHERE THE BETTER MOISTURE IS LOCATED. MOVEMENT OF THESE STORMS WILL BE SLOW.
The radar
The Tucson radar (KEMX), 104 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:04 UTC.
Event by event
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Heat in Pennsylvania, July 24 to 25, 2001
- Wildfire in California, July 24 to 31, 2001
- Tornado and Flash Flood in Iowa, July 24, 2001
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Montana, July 24 to 25, 2001
- Flash Flooding in Kentucky, July 24, 2001
- Flash Flood and Damaging Wind in Arizona, July 24, 2001
- Flash Flood in South Dakota, July 24, 2001
- Flood in Alaska, July 24 to 31, 2001
- Tornadoes in Maine, July 24, 2001
- Damaging Winds in Pennsylvania, July 24 to 25, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Missouri, July 24 to 25, 2001
- Flood and Hail in Kansas, July 24, 2001
More
Every storm in Arizona in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Arizona, July 2001
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: 5258399.