Name: Damaging Wind in Arizona, June 25, 2006
Start: 2006-06-25T18:00
End: 2006-06-25T18:15
Location: Arizona

Where it happened

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: $25,000
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.

A thunderstorm outflow caused power lines to be knocked down leaving about 2600 homes without power.

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 Jun 25, 2:15 PM MST, 3 hours 45 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 25, 2:15 PM MST, 3 hours 45 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON AZ
215 PM MST SUN JUN 25 2006

.SYNOPSIS...HIGH PRESSURE ALOFT OVER THE GREAT BASIN REGION WILL
MAINTAIN AN EAST TO SOUTHEAST FLOW ACROSS THE AREA THROUGH THE
MIDDLE OF THE WEEK. INCREASED MOISTURE WILL LEAD TO A CHANCE OF
SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS SOUTHEAST ARIZONA...MAINLY DURING
THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS EACH DAY THIS WEEK.

&&

.DISCUSSION...KEMX WSR-88D DETECTED SCATTERED MOSTLY LESS THAN 45
DBZ ECHOES MOVING SWD ACROSS THE WHITE MOUNTAINS/ZONE 19/NRN ZONE 30
REGION AT 2110Z. OTHER ISOLATED MOSTLY LESS THAN 35 DBZ ECHOES WERE
MOVING WWD ACROSS CENTRAL/ERN PIMA COUNTY. A FEW SPRINKLES OCCURRED
BETWEEN 19-20Z AT WFO TWC/UNIV OF AZ. BULK OF CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY
DURING THE NEXT 2-3 HOURS EXPECTED TO BE ACROSS WRN/CENTRAL PIMA
COUNTY AS WELL AS VICINITY WHITE MOUNTAINS.

AMPLE MID AND HIGH-LEVEL MOISTURE TO CONTINUE ACROSS SE AZ THROUGH
MUCH OF THIS FORECAST PERIOD. HOWEVER...NEAR-SURFACE MOISTURE
CONTINUES TO BE SOMEWHAT LIMITED FOR SIGNIFICANT CONVECTIVE
DEVELOPMENT. THUS GENERALLY LOW-GRADE PRECIP SCENARIO TO PREVAIL
THIS WEEK AS UPPER HIGH REMAINS QUASI-STATIONARY OVER THE GREAT
BASIN REGION. 25/12Z NAM/GFS SIMILAR WITH REGARD TO DEPICTING
INCREASED-PRECIP SCENARIO PRIMARILY DURING THE LATE MON-WED PERIOD.
PER COORD WITH ADJACENT WFO/S HAVE REFLECTED THIS NOTION IN THE
GRIDDED DATA POP/WEATHER FIELDS AND FORTHCOMING ZONE FORECAST
ISSUANCE. OTHERWISE ONLY MINOR ADJUSTMENTS TO INHERITED FORECASTS.
SLIGHT MODERATION IN DAYTIME MAX TEMPS ON TUESDAY...THEN ONLY MINOR
DAILY MAX TEMP VARIANCES DURING THE WED-FRI PERIOD. HOWEVER MIN
TEMPS WILL BE ABOVE...OR MUCH ABOVE...SEASONAL NORMALS THIS WEEK.

&&

.FIRE WEATHER...HIGH PRESSURE WILL REMAIN NORTHWEST OF ARIZONA
THROUGH THE WEEK CONTINUING THE SOUTHEAST FLOW ALOFT. THIS WILL
SUSTAIN THE MOISTURE OVER SOUTHEASTERN ARIZONA RESULTING IN MAINLY
AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS. ALTHOUGH OVERNIGHT RECOVERY OF
RELATIVE HUMIDITIES HAVE BEEN MODEST...THE ADVERSE AFFECTS OF GUSTY
AND ERRATIC WIND ASSOCIATED WITH THE THUNDERSTORMS WILL CONTINUE.

&&

.AVIATION...TAFS AND TWEBS ADEQUATELY COVER ALL SIGNIFICANT WEATHER
AT KTUS.

&&

.TWC WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE

&&

PUBLIC FORECASTER...BF
AVIATION/FIRE WEATHER FORECASTER...EVANS

WEATHER.GOV/TUCSON

The radar

The Tucson radar (KEMX), 43 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:59 UTC.

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Event by event

1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, Pima

When: June 25, 6:00 PM MST to 6:15 PM MST
Where: Pima County, 3 mi S of Tucson
Measured: 50 kt (58 mph) estimated gust
Property damage: $25,000
Reported by: NEWSPAPER
Coordinates: 32.183, -110.933

What these are

Thunderstorm Wind: Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

The same day elsewhere

More

Every storm in Arizona in 2006 Every state in 2006 This day in weather history Warnings in Arizona, June 2006

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 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5514383.