A winter storm system moved into from the southern California coast and into southern Arizona on the 22nd and 23rd of February. Snow levels dropped down as low as 5000 feet as the system moved across the area on the morning of the 23rd.
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.
The episode as NWS TWC wrote it up.
A winter storm system moved into from the southern California coast and into southern Arizona on the 22nd and 23rd of February. Snow levels dropped down as low as 5000 feet as the system moved across the area on the morning of the 23rd. Significant accumulation occurred above 6500 feet with three to four inches reported at locations lower than that. Southern Arizona was mostly impacted by this storm. The system went far enough south that it did not produce significant snow in the White Mountains. Hannagan Meadows Lodge only reported a storm total of 4 inches. Western Pima county got a decent amount of rain from this event, with a spotter reporting 1.35 inches at his house in Ajo.
1 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
The Huachuca and Chiricahua Mountain ranges both reported having 8 to 14 inches of snow from this event.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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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 2026-09-30. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5386035.