1 flash flood, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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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 Jul 4, 2:10 PM MST, 6 hours 24 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON AZ 210 PM MST TUE JUL 4 2006 .SYNOPSIS...SUFFICIENT MOISTURE WILL REMAIN OVER SOUTHEAST ARIZONA FOR A CONTINUED CHANCE OF MAINLY AFTERNOON AND EVENING SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH THE WEEK. && .DISCUSSION...SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SE AZ THIS AFTERNOON WITH THE EXCEPTION OF FAR WRN PIMA COUNTY WHERE THIS AREA WAS VOID OF PRECIP ECHOES. MOST ACTIVITY REMAINING OVER AND/OR NEAR MOUNTAINS...WITH CELL MOVEMENT GENERALLY NWWD ONLY AROUND 5 KTS OR LESS. PIMA COUNTY ALERT GAUGE VALID 2110Z INDICATED 1.46 INCHES OF RAIN AT MT. LEMMON...WITH OTHER AMOUNTS RANGING FROM 0.39-0.47 INCH NEARBY. SEVERAL SCENARIOS ABOUND FOR TONIGHT-WED. WITHOUT GOING THROUGH EACH POTENTIAL SCENARIO...WILL SUMMARIZE WITH BELIEF THAT ANOTHER CONVECTIVE COMPLEX WILL DEVELOP OVER NERN SONORA TONIGHT ALONG MOISTURE AXIS DEPICTED VIA WATER VAPOR IMAGERY. ANOTHER COMPLEX OVER FAR SRN SONORA LIKELY TO DEVELOP AS WELL...GIVEN NWWD PROGRESSION OF UPPER LOW. 04/12Z NAM DEPICTED FAIRLY EXTENSIVE AREA OF MEASURABLE PRECIP THIS EVENING OVER SWRN NM/FAR SE AZ AND BELIEVE THIS AREA TO ALSO BE FAVORABLE FOR SHOWERS/THUNDERSTORMS. THE MAIN THREAT THIS EVENING APPEARS TO BE LOCALLY HEAVY RAINS GIVEN THE VERY LIGHT STEERING FLOW AND INCREASED AVAILABLE MOISTURE VERSUS 24 HOURS AGO. DIFFERENCES IN NAM/GFS SOLUTIONS START AS EARLY AS WED. NAM MORE ROBUST WITH MOISTURE/PRECIP FIELDS VERSUS GFS. WILL LEAN TOWARD NAM SOLUTION WHICH IS INLINE WITH INHERITED FORECASTS IN DEPICTING SOME UPSWING IN ACTIVITY MAINLY DURING THE THUR-FRI PERIOD. PER COORD WITH WFO/S PSR/FGZ OPTED TO REFLECT SOME INCREASE IN INHERITED POPS WED-THUR...AND WILL DEPICT SOME LINGERING MAINLY ISOLATED SHOWERS/ TSTMS DURING THE LATE-NIGHT HOURS. ALSO PER COORD WITH WFO/S PSR/FGZ AM STILL NOT YET INCLINED TO BELIEVE THE MORE SIGNIFICANT DRYING LATE THIS WEEKEND/EARLY NEXT WEEK VIA GFS. THUS LOW-GRADE POPS AT LEAST STILL WARRANTED DURING THE LATTER FORECAST PERIODS AND ONLY VERY MINOR MODIFICATIONS MADE TO THE INHERITED GRIDDED DATA FIELDS. DAYTIME MAX TEMPS THRU THE REST OF THE WEEK INTO THE WEEKEND REMAINING CLOSE TO SEASONAL NORMALS FOR EARLY JULY. HOWEVER EXPECT ABOVE-NORMAL MIN TEMPS TO CONTINUE THIS FORECAST PERIOD. && .AVIATION...TAFS AND TWEBS ADEQUATELY COVER ALL SIGNIFICANT WEATHER AT KTUS. && .TWC WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE && BF WEATHER.GOV/TUCSON
PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON AZ
753 PM MST TUE JUL 04 2006
..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON...
..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE....
..REMARKS..
0730 PM TSTM WND GST 17 SSW WILLCOX 32.02N 109.92W
07/04/2006 E70 MPH COCHISE AZ TRAINED SPOTTER
0730 PM TSTM WND GST 18 S WILLCOX 32.00N 109.87W
07/04/2006 M60 MPH COCHISE AZ TRAINED SPOTTER
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LADERThe Tucson radar (KEMX), 83 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 03:32 UTC.
1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Several road were flooded in the Community of Sun Sites (25 miles south of the City of Willcox).
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Arizona in 2006Every state in 2006This day in weather historyWarnings in Arizona, July 2006
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: 5522567.