Severe thunderstorms moved across portions of the Tucson metro area producing wind damage.
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The episode as NWS TWC wrote it up.
Severe thunderstorms moved across portions of the Tucson metro area producing wind damage.
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 24, 1:55 PM MST, 3 hours 25 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON AZ 155 PM MST THU JUL 24 2008 .SYNOPSIS...A LOW PRESSURE SYSTEM MOVING ACROSS NORTHERN MEXICO WILL BRING ISOLATED TO SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO SOUTHEAST ARIZONA TONIGHT AND FRIDAY. FOR THIS WEEKEND...THE REMNANT MOISTURE FROM TROPICAL SYSTEM DOLLY IS EXPECTED TO NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS TO THE AREA. PERIODS OF HEAVY RAINFALL POTENTIALLY MAY OCCUR SATURDAY INTO SUNDAY. MORE NORMAL MONSOON THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY BY THE MIDDLE OF NEXT WEEK. && .DISCUSSION...KEMX WSR-88D DETECTED ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS COCHISE/GRAHAM/GREENLEE/SE PINAL/ERN PIMA COUNTIES AT 2050Z. CELL MOVEMENT WAS WWD 10-15 KTS. GIVEN THIS CELL MOTION BELIEVE MAIN THREAT WILL BE BRIEF WIND GUSTS POTENTIALLY UP TO 50 KTS WITH THE STRONGEST STORMS VERSUS HEAVY RAINFALL. WILL OPT FOR SCATTERED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TUCSON VICINITY EWD THIS EVENING WITH LESSER PRECIP CHANCES WRN SECTIONS. BELIEVE BULK OF CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY WILL END BY MIDNIGHT...THOUGH EVENING SHIFT MAY NEED TO ADD POPS TO THIS FORECAST FOR LATE TONIGHT INTO EARLY FRI AS NECESSARY. SOMEWHAT DEGRADED SHOWER/THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY STILL EXPECTED FRI. HOWEVER...24/12Z GFS DEPICTED FAIRLY SIGNIFICANT UPSWING IN MOISTURE STARTING FRI NIGHT AND PARTICULARLY SAT INTO MIDDAY SUN AS REMNANTS FROM TROPICAL SYSTEM DOLLY AFFECT THIS FORECAST AREA. HAVE TRENDED INHERITED POPS UPWARD STARTING FRI NIGHT...AND WILL OPT FOR LIKELY CATEGORY...OR NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS TUCSON METRO AREA SEWD SAT-SUN. WILL NOT BE SURPRISED TO SEE FLASH FLOOD WATCH EVENTUALLY ISSUED THIS WEEKEND. PLEASE REFER TO HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK /WMO HEADER FLUS45 KTWC/ AWIPS HEADER PHXHWOTWC/ FOR ADDITIONAL DETAIL REGARDING WET-WEEKEND SCENARIO. AT THIS TIME APPEARS MAJORITY OF SE AZ WILL RECEIVE ONE QUARTER TO THREE QUARTERS OF AN INCH OF RAINFALL...WITH LOCALIZED 2-4 INCH AMOUNTS POTENTIALLY MAY OCCUR ESPECIALLY HIGHER TERRAIN. DECREASED CONVECTIVE ACTIVITY EXPECTED STARTING MON AND CONTINUING INTO MIDWEEK AS PROGS DEPICT SOME DRYING ESPECIALLY MID-LEVELS. BELIEVE 24/12Z GFSX MOS GUIDANCE POP VALUES ARE PROBABLY TOO LOW AS RESIDUAL MOISTURE IN COMBINATION WITH DAYTIME HEATING SHOULD BE SUFFICIENT FOR POPS CLOSER TO CLIMO VALUES. SEASONABLY HOT TEMPS FRI THEN COOLER SAT DUE TO INCREASED MOISTURE SCENARIO. BELOW NORMAL DAYTIME TEMPS SUN-MON THEN GRADUALLY WARMER DURING THE LATTER PART OF THE FORECAST PERIOD. && .AVIATION...EXPECT ISOLATED TO SCATTERED TSRA/SHRA ACROSS SE AZ INTO TONIGHT. CLOUD DECKS GENERALLY 6-8K FT AGL THOUGH A RISK OF HEAVY RAIN AND LOCAL IFR CONDITIONS. HOWEVER...ANY TSTMS THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING WILL HAVE A POTENTIAL OF PRODUCING STRONG DOWNBURSTS WITH GUSTS OVER 40 KTS. CELL MOVEMENT GENERALLY WEST AT 10-15 KTS. EXPECTING JUST SOME DEBRIS CLOUDS AFTER 07Z...WITH LIGHT WINDS THRU TONIGHT OUTSIDE ANY TSTMS. AVIATION DISCUSSION NOT UPDATED FOR TAF AMENDMENTS. && .TWC WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. BF WEATHER.GOV/TUCSON
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON AZ 135 PM MST THU JUL 24 2008 AZZ019-029>035-251400- NORTHERN GREENLEE COUNTY-SOUTHEAST PINAL COUNTY- UPPER GILA RIVER VALLEY-WESTERN PIMA COUNTY-TOHONO OODHAM NATION- TUCSON METRO/MARANA/GREEN VALLEY-SANTA CRUZ COUNTY-COCHISE COUNTY- 135 PM MST THU JUL 24 2008 THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF SOUTH CENTRAL ARIZONA AND SOUTHEAST ARIZONA. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. ISOLATED MOUNTAIN THUNDERSTORMS WILL INCREASE A BIT MORE THROUGH LATE AFTERNOON...WITH STEERING WINDS AROUND 15 MPH PUSHING MANY OF THEM WEST INTO THE VALLEYS THROUGH MID EVENING. AN UPPER LEVEL DISTURBANCE OVER NORTHERN SONORA WILL CONTINUE TO MOVE WEST THIS EVENING...AND WILL HAVE A TENDENCY TO ENHANCE THUNDERSTORMS BETWEEN TUCSON AND THE INTERNATIONAL BORDER. THE MAIN RISK FROM THE STORMS TODAY WILL BE ISOLATED DOWNBURST WINDS UP TO 60 MPH...AND ISOLATED RAINFALL UP TO AN INCH AND A HALF. ORGANIZED SEVERE WEATHER IS NOT ANTICIPATED...AND MOST THUNDERSTORMS WILL DIMINISH BY 9 PM. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...FRIDAY THROUGH WEDNESDAY. TROPICAL DEPRESSION DOLLY HAS TRAVELED GENERALLY UP THE RIO GRANDE VALLEY TODAY...AND WILL CONTINUE TO DO SO BEFORE THE LOW LEVEL CIRCULATION DISSIPATES ON FRIDAY. HOWEVER THE MORE NORTHERLY TRACK MEANS THAT MUCH OF HER LOWER LEVEL MOISTURE DID NOT GET WRUNG OUT OVER THE MOUNTAINS OF NORTHEAST MEXICO. THUS THE MOISTURE WILL ARRIVE IN SOUTHEAST ARIZONA A LITTLE SOONER...PERHAPS AS EARLY AS FRIDAY NIGHT...WITH NUMEROUS SHOWERS AND SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS EXPECTED FROM SATURDAY MORNING THROUGH SUNDAY. IN REMNANT TROPICAL SYSTEMS LIKE THIS...HEAVY DOWNPOURS CAN DEVELOP AT ANY TIME...DAY OR NIGHT...AND CAN PRODUCE RAINFALL RATES WELL OVER AN INCH PER HOUR. IF CURRENT TRENDS CONTINUE...MUCH OF SOUTHEAST ARIZONA MAY RECEIVE BETWEEN ONE QUARTER AND THREE QUARTERS OF AN INCH OF RAIN THIS WEEKEND...WITH LOCALIZED 2 TO 4 INCH AMOUNTS NOT OUT OF THE QUESTION. BECAUSE THE GROUND IS NOW SATURATED...THESE RAINFALL AMOUNTS WOULD RESULT IN AT LEAST SOME FLASH FLOOD PROBLEMS. THE EXACT DETAILS ON WHERE AND WHEN THE HEAVIEST RAIN MAY FALL IS NOT CERTAIN YET...SO THOSE WITH OUTDOOR PLANS THIS WEEKEND SHOULD CONTINUE TO MONITOR FORECASTS CLOSELY. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... WEATHER SPOTTERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO REPORT SIGNIFICANT WEATHER CONDITIONS ACCORDING TO STANDARD OPERATING PROCEDURES. PYTLAK WEATHER.GOV/TUCSON
The Tucson radar (KEMX), 39 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 00:19 UTC.
1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Roof was partially blown off a home near 22nd and Camino Seco in Tucson.
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