Dust Storm, Cochise County
- When
- July 28, 4:55 PM MST to 6:15 PM MST
- Where
- Cochise County forecast zone
- Property damage
- $15,000
- Reported by
- LAW ENFORCEMENT
Dust Storm in Arizona, July 28, 2003
Outflow from afternoon thunderstorms caused a dust storm near Wilcox. Police in Wilcox reported a 2 car collision due to reduced visibilities and blowing dust at Ft Grant and North Wilcox roads.
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $15,000
- 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.
Outflow from afternoon thunderstorms caused a dust storm near Wilcox. Police in Wilcox reported a 2 car collision due to reduced visibilities and blowing dust at Ft Grant and North Wilcox roads. The dust storm moved west of Wilcox along Interstate 10, with several reports of near zero visibilities.
Event by event
1 dust storm. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Dust Storm
- Blowing dust that reduced visibility to a quarter mile or less.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
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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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5330176.