Evening thunderstorms caused strong winds across portions of Graham and Greenlee County.
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Evening thunderstorms caused strong winds across portions of Graham and Greenlee County.
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 14, 2:30 PM MST, 4 hours earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON AZ 230 PM MST SAT JUL 14 2007 .SYNOPSIS...HIGH PRESSURE ALOFT WILL CONTINUE ACROSS ARIZONA. COMBINED WITH A RELATIVELY MOIST AIRMASS IN PLACE...EXPECT ISOLATED TO SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS EACH AFTERNOON AND EVENING THROUGH NEXT WEEK. && .DISCUSSION...THE AIRMASS OVER SOUTHEAST ARIZONA WAS A LITTLE MORE MOIST COMPARED TO YESTERDAY. UPPER-AIR DATA SHOWED THE MID LEVEL HIGH CELL CENTERED OVER SOUTHWEST UTAH...WITH THE STEERING FLOW OUT OF THE NORTHEAST FOR MUCH OF OUR CWA. SATELLITE IMAGERY THIS MORNING SHOWED A WEAK CIRCULATION ASSOCIATED WITH A CLOUD MASS OVER NORTHWEST MEXICO...WHICH WAS LIKELY LEFTOVER FROM THE THUNDERSTORM COMPLEX THAT DEVELOPED YESTERDAY EVENING. SKIES IN THE WAKE OF THIS FEATURE CLEARED SOME THIS MORNING AS IT TRACK WESTWARD OVER THE NORTHERN GULF OF CALIFORNIA. THIS CLEARING WAS ENOUGH FOR THE BOUNDARY LAYER TO HEAT UP NICELY THIS AFTERNOON. AT 2PM MST...RADAR WAS DETECTING SOME SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS NEAR THE INTERNATIONAL BORDER ALONG THE PERIPHERY OF THE CIRCULATION OVER THE NORTHERN GULF OF CALIFORNIA. ANOTHER BATCH OF STORMS WAS FORMING ALONG THE RIM INTO THE WHITE MOUNTAINS THIS AFTERNOON. IF THE STORMS NEAR THE BORDER AND ALONG THE RIM COUNTRY CAN GET BETTER ORGANIZED LATE THIS AFTERNOON...OUR CENTRAL AND WESTERN DESERTS(INCLUDING TUCSON) WILL HAVE A CHANCE OF GETTING THUNDERSTORMS BY MIDNIGHT TONIGHT. OTHERWISE...LATEST MODELS CONTINUED TO SHOW THE CENTER OF THE UPPER HIGH SHIFTING TO NEAR THE FOUR CORNERS BY MONDAY. THE GENERAL THINKING WAS THAT DEEPER MOISTURE ALONG WITH A MORE FAVORABLE STEERING FLOW WILL SETUP WITH THIS PATTERN EARLY NEXT WEEK. IN TURN...THIS SHOULD RESULT IN AN INCREASE IN THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY WHICH WILL CONTINUE THROUGH THE REMAINDER OF NEXT WEEK. DAYTIME TEMPERATURES WILL BE SLIGHTLY ABOVE NORMAL. && .FIRE WEATHER...ISOLATED TO SCATTERED SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE EACH DAY DURING THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS. WINDS WILL BE DIURNALLY DRIVEN...WITH AFTERNOON GUSTS UP TO 30 MPH DUE TO STRONG SURFACE HEATING. ADDITIONALLY...ANY THUNDERSTORMS THAT DO DEVELOP WILL PRODUCE STRONG GUSTY AND ERRATIC WINDS. RELATIVE HUMIDITY VALUES OVERNIGHT WILL BE 45 TO 75 PERCENT RANGE...WITH VALUES DROPPING IN THE AFTERNOON HOURS INTO THE 20 TO 30 PERCENT RANGE. && .AVIATION...ISOLD TO SCT TSRA/SHRA COVERAGE EXPECTED DURING MAINLY THE AFTERNOON AND EVENING HOURS TODAY EAST AND SOUTH OF KTUS. AVIATION DISCUSSION NOT UPDATED FOR TAF AND TWEB AMENDMENTS. && .TWC WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. && WEATHER.GOV/TUCSON
The Tucson radar (KEMX), 178 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:28 UTC.
2 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Eight flagpoles were knocked down at Mares Bluff Veterans Memorial in Clifton. Another flagpole was partially knocked down, being supported by wires.
A strong thunderstorm knocked down two power poles in Safford.
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