1 funnel cloud, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 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 Apr 23, 3:30 PM MST, 33 minutes earlier.
AZZ020>028-CAZ030>033-240545- AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX AZ 330 PM MST SAT APR 23 2005 SOUTHWEST AND SOUTH-CENTRAL ARIZONA...AND SOUTHEAST CALIFORNIA FORECAST DISCUSSION .SYNOPSIS... A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM WILL MOVE NORTHEAST ACROSS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA AND ARIZONA TONIGHT. THIS SYSTEM WILL BRING WINDY WEATHER TO THE ENTIRE AREA...AND SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH AREAS OF BLOWING DUST MAINLY EAST OF THE LOWER COLORADO RIVER AND ESPECIALLY TO SOUTH-CENTRAL ARIZONA INCLUDING THE GREATER PHOENIX AREA THROUGH TONIGHT. THEN...COOLER AND BREEZY TO WINDY WEATHER IS EXPECTED BEHIND THIS SYSTEM SUNDAY. DRY AND WARMER WEATHER IS EXPECTED BY MONDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY AS HIGH PRESSURE ALOFT FROM THE PACIFIC MOVES EAST OVER THE SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES. ANOTHER PACIFIC LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM IS EXPECTED TO BRING COOLER AND BREEZY TO WINDY WEATHER WITH A CHANCE OF SHOWERS BY THURSDAY NIGHT INTO FRIDAY. && .DISCUSSION... TEMPERATURES WERE GENERALLY 5 TO 7 DEGREES WARMER AND DEW POINT TEMPERATURES 20 TO 30 DEGREES HIGHER ALONG THE LOWER COLORADO RIVER VALLEY INCLUDING YUMA EASTWARD ACROSS SOUTH-CENTRAL ARIZONA INCLUDING THE GREATER PHOENIX AREA AT MID AFTERNOON TODAY COMPARED WITH THE SAME TIME YESTERDAY. ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS DEVELOPED OVER THIS AREA DURING THE AFTERNOON. MEANWHILE...MID AND HIGH LEVEL CLOUDINESS FROM THE SOUTH MOVED OVER SOUTHEAST CALIFORNIA RESULTING IN TEMPERATURES THAT WERE 2 OR 3 DEGREES COOLER AT MID AFTERNOON TODAY COMPARED WITH THE SAME TIME YESTERDAY. AND DEW POINT TEMPERATURES WERE 10 TO 20 DEGREES HIGHER THERE. A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM THAT WAS JUST OFF THE NORTHERN BAJA CALIFORNIA COAST AT MID AFTERNOON TODAY WILL MOVE NORTHEAST ACROSS SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA AND ARIZONA TONIGHT. THIS SYSTEM WILL BRING WINDY WEATHER TO THE ENTIRE AREA AND A CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WITH AREAS OF BLOWING DUST MAINLY EAST OF THE LOWER COLORADO RIVER VALLEY AND ESPECIALLY TO SOUTH-CENTRAL ARIZONA LATE THIS AFTERNOON AND TONIGHT. MAIN CONCERN FOR THE SHORT TERM FORECAST IS THE INCREASING THUNDERSTORMS WITH BRIEF HEAVY RAIN...STRONG GUSTY WINDS AND AREAS OF BLOWING DUST ESPECIALLY IN SOUTH-CENTRAL ARIZONA THROUGH TONIGHT. THE WIND WITH SOME THUNDERSTORMS COULD BECOME MARGINALLY SEVERE. ALTHOUGH NOT MENTIONED IN THE FORECAST...SMALL HAIL IS ALSO POSSIBLE. ALSO...WINDS MAY REACH MARGINAL LEVELS FOR WIND ADVISORY CRITERIA IN SOUTHEAST CALIFORNIA AND FAR SOUTHWEST ARIZONA THIS EVENING. COOLER AND BREEZY TO WINDY WEATHER IS EXPECTED BEHIND THIS SYSTEM SUNDAY...AND THERE IS A SLIGHT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND AFTERNOON THUNDERSTORMS OVER THE HIGHER TERRAIN OF SOUTH-CENTRAL ARIZONA. DRY AND WARMER WEATHER IS EXPECTED BY MONDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY AS HIGH PRESSURE ALOFT FROM THE PACIFIC MOVES EAST OVER THE SOUTHWESTERN UNITED STATES. ANOTHER PACIFIC LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM IS EXPECTED TO BRING COOLER AND BREEZY TO WINDY WEATHER WITH A CHANCE OF SHOWERS BY THURSDAY NIGHT INTO FRIDAY. && .PSR WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES... AZ...NONE. CA...NONE. && ELLIS NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PHOENIX IS ON THE INTERNET AT WEATHER.GOV/PHOENIX
The Yuma radar (KYUX), 151 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:57 UTC.
1 funnel cloud, 1 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Motorist on Interstate 10 observed funnel cloud.
Winds associated with thunderstorms damaged roofs and carports. Power was knocked out in parts of the Yuma Foothills area. Small hail was also reported with these thunderstorms.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Arizona in 2005Every state in 2005This day in weather historyWarnings in Arizona, April 2005
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: 5447503, 5447504, 5447505.