Name: Damaging Wind in Arizona, July 5, 2001
Start: 2001-07-05T14:30
End: 2001-07-05T14:50
Location: Arizona

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $20,000
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.

Damaging winds ripped a car port out of the ground and it landed into a pool nearby in Mammoth. There was no evidence of damage to the pool.

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 5, 2:30 PM MST, 0 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jul 5, 2:30 PM MST, 0 minutes before

SOUTHEAST ARIZONA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON AZ
230 PM MST THU JUL 5 2001

SYNOPSIS...SCATTERED MAINLY AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS
WILL CONTINUE FOR THE REMAINDER OF THE WEEK AND INTO THE WEEKEND.
HIGH PRESSURE TO OUR NORTHEAST WILL CONTINUE TO GUIDE DEEP
MOISTURE INTO SOUTHEAST ARIZONA THROUGH THE WEEKEND.

DISCUSSION...DEEP MOISTURE AND UPPER DIVERGENCE HAS SET OFF NUMEROUS
THUNDERSTORMS WITH HEAVY RAIN. THE RAIN HAS LOWERED CAPE AND
PRODUCED CLOUD COVER OVER MUCH OF THE AREA SO MAIN PROBLEM IS...
WILL TSTMS REGENERATE THIS EVENING. WITH GOOD UPPER LEVEL SUPPORT
THINK WILL SEE MORE SHOWERS/TSTMS OVERNIGHT. GOOD HEATING TAKING
PLACE IN NORTHERN MEXICO WITH CONVECTION SLOWER TO TAKE OFF SO
THIS COULD BE SOURCE OF NEW DEVELOPMENT FOR TONIGHT. ON FRI MODELS
SHOWING ANOTHER GOOD POTENTIAL DAY BUT CLOUDS WILL HOLD DOWN TEMPS
AND SHOWERS MAY REMAIN SCATTERED. A LITTLE WARMING SAT WITH LESS
CLOUDS AND AGAIN SCATTERED AFTN/EVE TSTMS. IN EXTENDED HIGH REMAINS
IN GOOD LOCATION FOR CONTINUED FLOW OF DEEP MOISTURE...WILL KEEP
AFTN/EVE TSTMS GOING WITH TEMPS ABOUT NORMAL.

.TWC...NONE.

In the hours before

Special weather statement, Jul 5, 12:09 PM MST, 2 hours 21 minutes before

AZZ019-029>035-050700-

SOUTHEAST ARIZONA HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON AZ
1205 AM MST THU JUL 5 2001

.SYNOPSIS... A MOISTURE INFLUX FROM THE SOUTH IS HELPING INITIATE THE
THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY ACROSS THE COUNTY WARNING AREA. WITH SLOWER
WINDS ALOFT THE POTENTIAL FOR TRAINING OF STORMS AND FLASH FLOODING
HAS INCREASED.

.DISCUSSION...LOW LEVEL MOISTURE SURGED INTO THE AREA WITH THE 12Z
TUS SOUNDING HAVING PWAT VALUE OF 1.47. THUNDERSTORMS HAVE ALREADY
ERUPTED ACROSS WEST CENTRAL PIMA COUNTY THROUGH WESTERN COCHISE
COUNTY. TRAINING OF THESE STORMS IS LIKELY WITH THE SLOWER WINDS
ALOFT.  FLASH FLOOD THREAT WILL BE HIGHEST FROM EASTERN- PIMA COUNTY
TO CENTRAL COCHISE COUNTY. THE SEVERE WEATHER THREAT WILL ALSO BE
HIGH IN THIS SAME LOCATION.

STORM MOTION WILL BE TOWARDS THE NORTHWEST AT 15 MPH.

Local storm report, Jul 5, 1:12 PM MST, 1 hour 18 minutes before

PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON ARIZONA
0112 PM MST THU JUL 5 2001

TIME (MST) .....CITY LOCATION.....STATE   ...EVENT/REMARKS...
           ....COUNTY LOCATION....

1250 PM    TUCSON                    AZ   70 MPH TSTM GUST
07/05/01   PIMA                           REPORTED AT PRINCE AND ROMERO USING
                                          HAND HELD ANEMOMETER

The radar

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Event by event

1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, Pinal

When: July 5, 2:30 PM MST to 2:50 PM MST
Where: Pinal County, Mammoth
Property damage: $20,000
Reported by: GENERAL PUBLIC
Coordinates: 32.717, -110.650

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.

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The same day elsewhere

More

Every storm in Arizona in 2001 Every state in 2001 This day in weather history Warnings 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: 5258396.