Monsoonal moisture resulted in scattered thunderstorms with locally heavy rainfall across Southeast Arizona.
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The episode as NWS TWC wrote it up.
Monsoonal moisture resulted in scattered thunderstorms with locally heavy rainfall across Southeast Arizona.
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 3, 1:45 PM MST, 2 hours 45 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON AZ 145 PM MST THU JUL 3 2008 .SYNOPSIS...HIGH PRESSURE ALOFT WILL BE CENTERED NORTH OF US INTO THE WEEKEND. THE FLOW AROUND THIS ALONG WITH A LOW LEVEL MOISTURE INCREASE WILL GENERATE A DAILY CYCLE OF ISOLATED TO SCATTERED AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS...ALONG WITH SEASONABLY HOT DAYTIME TEMPERATURES. && .DISCUSSION...BETTER THUNDERSTORM COVERAGE TO START THE AFTERNOON COMPARED TO 24 HOURS AGO. MODEST MOISTURE INCREASE IN LOWER LEVELS AND MUCH BETTER SHEAR PROFILE HAS PROVIDED A BETTER ENVIRONMENT FOR EARLIER SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TODAY. MID LEVEL WARMING TREND EVIDENT BY YESTERDAY AFTERNOON CONTINUES TO MODERATE...BUT AREAS FROM PIMA COUNTY WESTWARD MAY BE HOLDING ON TO ABOUT -7C AT H5...NOT THE BEST BUT WE WILL SEE HOW THAT IS BY LATER THIS AFTERNOON. RAMPING UP POPS TO 30 PERCENT FOR EASTERN PIMA COUNTY BY THIS EVENING. SHALLOW MOISTURE INCREASE THROUGH SONORA UP TO 4K FT DEEP IN THE NORTHERN GULF. MAY NOT GET MUCH DEEPER IN THE SHORT TERM (RECENT VWP TRENDS SHOW WEAKENING AT ALL LEVELS) BUT EVERY LITTLE BIT HELPS. STILL FIGHTING RELATIVELY DRIER UPSTREAM FLOW AT MOST LEVELS AS AVAILABLE MOISTURE IN NORTHERN ARIZONA AND NORTHWEST NEW MEXICO LESS THAN IMPRESSIVE. TROPICAL SYSTEM WELL SOUTH OF THE GULF WILL TRACK DUE WEST...BUT WITH MOISTURE INCREASE AND UPPER LEVEL DIFFLUENT PATTERN NORTH OF THIS FEATURE...EXPECT SONORA TO BECOME MORE ACTIVE AND POSSIBLY PROVIDE ADDITIONAL MOISTURE SUPPORT THROUGH DEEPER OUTFLOW AND DEEPER MOISTURE TRANSPORT OVER THE NEXT COUPLE OF DAYS. EVEN WITH LESS THAN FAVORABLE LARGER SCALE PATTERN WE STILL MAY MANAGE TO SQUEEZE OUT A MODEST INCREASE IN CONVECTION. && .FIRE WEATHER...HIGH PRESSURE ALOFT WILL BE CENTERED NORTH OF US INTO THE WEEKEND. THE FLOW AROUND THIS ALONG WITH A LOW LEVEL MOISTURE INCREASE WILL GENERATE A DAILY CYCLE OF ISOLATED TO SCATTERED AFTERNOON AND EVENING THUNDERSTORMS...ALONG WITH SEASONABLY HOT DAYTIME TEMPERATURES. ANY THUNDERSTORMS THAT DO DEVELOP WILL HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO PRODUCE STRONG...ERRATIC...AND GUSTY WINDS. && .AVIATION...ISOLATED TO SCATTERED THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED THIS AFTERNOON AND EVENING. WINDS WILL GENERALLY BE LIGHT AND DIURNALLY DRIVEN EXCEPT NEAR THUNDERSTORMS THROUGH 06Z FRI...WHERE WINDS WILL BE VARIABLE AND GUSTY AT TIMES. OUTFLOW WINDS WITH STORMS COULD HAVE GUSTS TO NEAR 45 KTS. AVIATION DISCUSSION NOT UPDATED FOR TAF AMENDMENTS. && .TWC WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. WEATHER.GOV/TUCSON
The Tucson radar (KEMX), 75 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:28 UTC.
3 thunderstorm wind, 1 flash flood. Local standard time, as filed.
Several small trees were uprooted in Saddlebrooke.
A wind gust to 75 mph occurred at Douglas-Bisbee airport.
Large tree limbs were downed due to gusts from a thunderstorm.
Four and a half inches of rainfall occurred at Manning Camp in the Rincon Mountains in less than 2 hours causing excessive runoff into area washes.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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