Arizona, 2006Flash Flood in Arizona, August 8, 2006
August 8, 2006 · NWS TWC · 1 event in 1 county or zone
1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $75,000
- 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 Tucson, AZ wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 8, 2:12 PM MST, 4 hours 18 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Aug 8, 2:12 PM MST, 4 hours 18 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON AZ
212 PM MST TUE AUG 8 2006
.SYNOPSIS...HIGH PRESSURE OVER THE SOUTHERN PLAINS WILL BUILD
WESTWARD...WITH AN EASTERLY TO SOUTHEASTERLY FLOW RETURNING TO
SOUTHEAST ARIZONA. EXPECT A CHANCE OF MAINLY AFTERNOON AND EVENING
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH THE WEEK.
&&
.DISCUSSION...UPPER AIR CHARTS THIS MORNING SHOWED UPPER HIGH OVER
NORTHERN NEW MEXICO WITH EAST TO SOUTHEAST FLOW ACROSS SOUTHEAST
ARIZONA. FURTHER WEST THE FLOW IS SOUTH TO SOUTHWEST WITH UPPER LOW
IN SOUTHWEST OREGON. CLOSER LOOK AT WATER VAPOR IMAGERY THIS
AFTERNOON SHOWED THAT THERE IS A VERY WEAK DISTURBANCE APPROACHING
EL PASO MOVING WEST AROUND 15 MPH. 12Z TUCSON SOUNDING SHOWED BETTER
FLOW THAN YESTERDAY WITH EL PASO A SMIDGE STRONGER. GOES
PRECIPITABLE WATER IMAGERY THIS MORNING/EARLY THIS AFTERNOON SHOWED
VALUES APPROACHING 2 INCHES IN THE LOWER DESERTS WHILE A WEDGE OF
DRIER WITH VALUES DOWN NEAR AN INCH IN FAR SE AZ/SW NM. HOWEVER
THIS WEDGE HAS BEEN DECREASING AS HIGH VALUES ASSOCIATED WITH
AFOREMENTIONED DISTURBANCE CLOSING IN ON EL PASO. SO FAR THIS HAVE
BEEN WORKING OUT AS WHAT WAS SAID IN THE MORNING DISCUSSION. THE
FOCUS THIS AFTERNOON/EVENING WILL BE WEST OF TUCSON WHERE HEAVY RAIN
WILL BE THE ISSUE. THE DRIER AIR EAST OF TUCSON HAS INHIBITED DEEPER
CONVECTION THIS AFTERNOON. THIS PUT TUCSON RIGHT IN THE MIDDLE WHERE
ONLY ISOLATED ACTIVITY COULD HAPPEN OR IT IS A BIT MORE WIDESPREAD.
THE DISTURBANCE NEAR EL PASO WILL MOVE INTO THE AREA OVERNIGHT AND
MAY HAVE ENOUGH LIFT TO KEEP ISOLATED ACTIVITY GOING. OVERNIGHT LOW
TEMPERATURES WILL AGAIN BE WARM.
NOT MUCH WILL CHANGE OVER THE NEXT SEVEN DAYS WITH UPPER HIGH OVER
THE SOUTHERN PLAINS AND MEAN UPPER TROF OVER THE PACIFIC NW. THUS
EXPECT THE WEATHER TO REMAIN RELATIVELY ACTIVE WITH DAY-TO-DAY
VARIABILITY OF THUNDERSTORM COVERAGE. HIGH TEMPERATURES WILL BE
AROUND SEASONAL NORMALS.
&&
.AVIATION...TAFS AND TWEBS ADEQUATELY COVER ALL SIGNIFICANT WEATHER
AT KTUS.
&&
.TWC WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE.
&&
WEATHER.GOV/TUCSON
Flash Flood, Pima
- When
- August 8, 6:30 PM MST to 10:45 PM MST
- Where
- Pima County, Tucson
- Property damage
- $75,000
- Reported by
- NWS EMPLOYEE(OFF DUTY)
- Coordinates
- 32.097, -111.790 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Severe storms moved through the Tucson Metro Area starting around 7 pm MST (1900 MST). These storms dropped over an inch of rain at the Tucson International Airport. Around 8:40 pm MST (2040 MST) reports of flooded roadways became widespread. A National Weather Service Employee reported roadway flooding at the intersection of Park Avenue and 6th Street. The broadcast media reported flooding along Sahuarita Road, South of Tucson, with a couple of cars stuck in the flood waters. Additionally, another five cars became stuck in the flooded intersection of East 22nd Street and South Tyndall Avenue where the water was reported to be over a foot deep and moving very rapidly. Also, a newspaper article reported that two homes were flooded due to an over flowing wash at South 2nd Avenue.
- Flash Flood
- Flooding that begins within six hours of the rain that causes it, or of a dam or levee failure or ice jam release, often with deadly speed.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
- Lightning Strike in North Carolina, August 8, 20061 death · 1 event
- Rip Current in Florida, August 8, 20061 death · 1 event
- Heat in Louisiana, August 8, 20061 death · 1 event
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, August 8, 20061 injured · $350,000 · 60 kt wind · 1 event
- Damaging Wind in Alabama, August 8, 2006$500,000 · 60 kt wind · 1 event
- Lightning Strike in Florida, August 8, 2006$350,000 · 1 event
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Georgia, August 8, 2006$189,000 · 55 kt wind · 11 events
- Lightning Strike in Nebraska, August 8, 2006$225,000 · 1 event
- Damaging Winds and Lightning Strike in Georgia, August 8, 20061 injured · $60,000 · 55 kt wind · 5 events
- Damaging Wind in Arizona, August 8, 2006$62,000 · 65 kt wind · 1 event
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Georgia, August 8, 2006$44,000 · 1 in hail · 7 events
- Damaging Wind in Arizona, August 8, 2006$50,000 · 68 kt wind · 1 event
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: 5530327.