Thunderstorm Wind, Pinal
- When
- July 13, 5:40 PM MST to 6:00 PM MST
- Where
- Pinal County, Oracle
- Property damage
- $2,000
- Reported by
- GENERAL PUBLIC
- Coordinates
- 32.617, -110.767
Thunderstorm winds downed 2 power poles in the town of Oracle.
Damaging Wind in Arizona, July 13, 2002
1 thunderstorm wind, 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
- 0
- Property damage
- $2,000
- 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 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 Phoenix, AZ wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Jul 13, 3:20 PM MST, 2 hours 20 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 13, 3:20 PM MST, 2 hours 20 minutes before
AZZ020>028-CAZ030>033-140545- SOUTHWEST ARIZONA/SOUTHEAST CALIFORNIA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ 320 PM MST SAT JUL 13 2002 .SYNOPSIS... HIGH PRESSURE OVER UTAH AND ARIZONA TONIGHT...WILL SLOWLY MOVE TO THE SOUTH NEXT WEEK. A NORTHEAST WIND IN THE UPPER LEVELS...SHOULD MOVE AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS FROM THE HIGHER TERRAIN DOWN INTO THE SOUTH CENTRAL AND SOUTHWEST LOWER DESERTS EACH DAY. THE PRECIPITATION WILL BE LIGHT. HOWEVER...THE THUNDERSTORMS MAY HAVE GUSTY WINDS AND A CONSIDERABLE AMOUNT OF BLOWING DUST. .DISCUSSION... MID AFTN...STLT WV HAS A WELL DEFINED VORT LOBE ENTERING NE AZ... MOVG FAST TO THE SW...WITH PLENTY OF DYNAMICS WHICH SPAWNED DEEP CNVCTN. AS OF 22Z..THIS TSTM ACTIVITY IS JUST TO THE NE OF SRN GILA COUNTY AND NE OF THE USUAL AFTN RIM CNTRY TSTMS. KPG A WARY EYE ON THIS AS IT IS MOVG FAST TO THE SW AND CD BE A HARBINGER OF A BUSY EVE ACRS SRN GILA...MARICOPA AND NRN PINAL COUNTIES. THE LRG HI...CENTERED PRETTY MUCH OVER CNTRL UT...IS PROGGED TO SLOWLY SINK SOUTH...WHATS MOST IMPORTANT IS THAT THERE IS A SERIES OF VORT LOBES...WITH GOOD OMEGA MAXES...SWINGING ARND THE HI AND INTO CNTRL AZ OVER THE NEXT 3 DAYS. WHILE THE TYPICAL MONSOON LOW LVL MSTR SOURCE TO THE S JUST HASNT HAPPENED YET...THE UPPR LVL DYNAMICS ARE PRETTY IMPRESSIVE. SO WILL CONT TO RAMP UP THE ACTVTY THROUGH TUESDAY...ALBEIT THE ACTUAL RAINFALL AMOUNTS WILL BE UNMERCIFULLY LOW. WILL GO WITH THE HI DRFTG OFF TO THE E THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK...AND A TROUGH DIGGING SWRD ALG THE CA COAST...THIS CD MEAN SOME DRYING...BUT RELATIVELY SPEAKING WE ARE ALREADY A DRY IN THE MID LVLS. WHAT IS PBLY MORE IMPORTANT IS THAT THE TROUGH CD MAKE FOR SLIGHTLY COOLER TEMPS...MAYBE 2 TO 4 DEG BELOW DAILY SEASONAL NORMS BY THE END OF NEXT WEEK AS WELL AS KICKING IN SOME VERY LO LVL MSTR ADVCTN. RUNYAN .PSR...NONE.
The radar
The Tucson radar (KEMX), 81 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:41 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
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- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, July 13, 2002
- Flash Flood and Hail in Texas, July 13 to 14, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Colorado, July 13, 2002
- Rip Current in Alabama, July 13, 2002
- Damaging Wind in Nevada, July 13, 2002
- Flash Flooding in Texas, July 13, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, July 13 to 14, 2002
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, July 13, 2002
- Damaging Winds in Idaho, July 13, 2002
More
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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: 5303698.