Thunderstorm Wind, Graham
- When
- June 25, 2:48 PM MST
- Where
- Graham County, (E74)safford Arpt
- Measured
- 51 kt (59 mph)
- Reported by
- AWOS,ASOS,MESONET,ETC
- Coordinates
- 32.850, -109.633
Damaging Wind in Arizona, June 25, 2001
Peak wind gust measured at the Safford airport. Blowing dust also reduced visibilities below half a mile.
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
- 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 TWC wrote it up.
Peak wind gust measured at the Safford airport. Blowing dust also reduced visibilities below half a mile.
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 Jun 25, 2:15 PM MST, 33 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jun 25, 2:15 PM MST, 33 minutes before
SOUTHEAST ARIZONA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON AZ 215 PM MST MON JUN 25 2001 SYNOPSIS...A SUBTROPICAL DISTURBANCE WEST OF THE BAJA PENINSULA WILL LIFT NORTH ACROSS ARIZONA TONIGHT...BRINGING OCCASIONAL SHOWERS AND A FEW THUNDERSTORMS TO THE AREA TONIGHT. A DRIER SOUTHWEST FLOW ALOFT WILL DEVELOP BEHIND THIS DISTURBANCE BY MIDWEEK...WHICH WILL LIMIT THE THUNDERSTORMS TO THE MOUNTAINS EAST OF TUCSON WEDNESDAY THROUGH FRIDAY. DISCUSSION...AN AREA OF SHOWERS WITH EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS HAS DEVELOPED IN DEFORMATION ZONE AHEAD OF BAJA LOW AND MOVING INTO TUCSON METRO AT THIS TIME. SATELLITE PICTURES SHOW CLEARING IN NORTHERN MEXICO WHICH SHOULD CONVECT AGAIN LATER THIS AFTERNOON... FEEDING MOISTURE INTO DEFORMATION AREA AHEAD OF UPPER LOW. THUS...EXPECT OCCASIONAL SHOWERS AND A FEW EMBEDDED THUNDERSTORMS TO REDEVELOP TONIGHT FOLLOWING THIS FIRST INITIAL BAND. AFTER THE TROUGH PASSAGE EARLY TUESDAY MORNING...COULD SEE A FEW STORMS IN THE AFTERNOON AS MOISTURE LINGERS AND ATMOSPHERE DESTABILIZES DUE TO DIURNAL HEATING. THE AVN AND ETA SHOW CONSIDERABLE DIFFERENCES IN THE AMOUNT OF LOW LEVEL MOISTURE THAT REMAINS OVER THE AREA MID WEEK. SINCE THE ETA HAD A BETTER INITIALIZATION BASED ON THE GOES PWATER IMAGES...WILL LEAN TOWARD THE ETA SOLUTION TUESDAY AFTERNOON AND AGAIN WEDNESDAY. MRF SHOWS A SLIGHT INCREASE IN MOISTURE FOR THE WEEKEND...SO WILL KEEP ISOLATED/CHANCE POPS THROUGH THE EXTENDED FORECAST. DRB .TWC...NONE.
In the hours before
Special weather statement, Jun 25, 12:45 PM MST, 2 hours 3 minutes before
AZZ019-029>035-250500- SOUTHEAST ARIZONA HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON AZ 1245 PM MST MON JUN 25 2001 .SYNOPSIS...SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IS PRIMARILY IN PIMA...PINAL...AND SANTA CRUZ COUNTIES RIGHT NOW BUT WILL BECOME MORE WIDESPREAD TO INCLUDE COCHISE...GRAHAM...AND GREENLEE COUNTIES THROUGH THE EARLY AFTERNOON. THE EXTENSIVE CLOUD COVER WILL REDUCE THE MAXIMUM HEATING POTENTIAL THIS AFTERNOON...THUS THE SEVERE THUNDERSTORM THREAT REMAINS LOW. THE FLASH FLOOD THREAT INCREASES SLIGHTLY THROUGH THE AFTERNOON AS AN INFLUX OF MOISTURE CONTINUES ACROSS SOUTHEAST ARIZONA. .DISCUSSION...THE UPPER LEVEL LOW IS LOCATED OVER NORTHERN BAJA AND WILL BE MOVING NORTHEASTWARD OVER ARIZONA THROUGH TUESDAY MORNING. THE INFLUX OF MID LEVEL MOISTURE FROM MEXICO AND THE DEFORMATION ZONE HAS LEAD TO THE WIDESPREAD SHOWER ACTIVITY THROUGH THE WESTERN PORTIONS OF ARIZONA. THE SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IS BEGINNING TO DEVELOP AND MOVE INTO COCHISE COUNTY AS THE DEFORMATION AXIS BEGINS TO TILT. SEVERE THUNDERSTORM THREATS WILL BE NEAR OR SLIGHTLY BELOW CLIMATOLOGY DUE TO THE EXTENSIVE CLOUD COVER OVER PIMA...PINAL...AND SANTA CRUZ COUNTIES. THE THREAT WILL BE NEAR CLIMATOLOGY OR SLIGHLY HIGHER IN COCHISE AND GRAHAM COUNTIES SINCE THE CLOUD COVER WAS NOT AS EXTENSIVE. FLASH FLOOD THREATS WILL BE SLIGHTLY ABOVE CLIMATOLOGY IN THE MOUNTAINOUS TERRAIN AND NEAR CLIMATOLOGY IN THE WESTERN DESERTS. STORM MOVEMENT TODAY WILL BE TO THE NORTHEAST AT 10 TO 15 MPH.
The radar
The Tucson radar (KEMX), 142 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:45 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
- Lightning Strike in Georgia, June 25, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Colorado, June 25, 2001
- Flooding and Hail in Georgia, June 25 to 27, 2001
- Flood in Texas, June 25, 2001
- Hail in Nebraska, June 25, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, June 25, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Tennessee, June 25, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Georgia, June 25, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Virginia, June 25, 2001
- Lightning Strike in Florida, June 25, 2001
- Damaging Wind in Virginia, June 25, 2001
- Hail and Damaging Winds in South Carolina, June 25, 2001
More
Every storm in Arizona in 2001Every state in 2001This day in weather historyWarnings in Arizona, June 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: 5251275.