A brush fire burned more than 5,000 acres and at least four homes in a subdivision near Fort Huachuca's West Gate. One person suffered burn injuries related to the fire.
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.
The episode as NWS TWC wrote it up.
A brush fire burned more than 5,000 acres and at least four homes in a subdivision near Fort Huachuca's West Gate. One person suffered burn injuries related to the fire. Dry westerly flow brought dry conditions to Santa Cruz County, with winds gusting to near 25 mph.
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 May 5, 9:40 AM MST, 3 hours 20 minutes earlier.
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON AZ 940 AM MST TUE MAY 5 2009 .SYNOPSIS...HIGH PRESSURE WILL BRING A WARMING TREND AND DRY CONDITIONS...WITH MANY LOCATIONS REACHING TRIPLE DIGITS BY THURSDAY. && .DISCUSSION...CURRENT FORECAST LOOKED ON TRACK...SO NO UPDATES NEEDED THIS MORNING. SEE PREV DISCUSSION FOR MORE DETAILS. && .FIRE WEATHER...HIGH PRESSURE CENTERED SOUTH OF ARIZONA WILL KEEP WINDS WITHIN THEIR NORMAL DIURNAL PATTERNS AND WILL RESULT IN DRY CONDITIONS THROUGHOUT THE WEEK. WITH TEMPERATURES NEAR THE CENTURY MARK BY MID WEEK...RH VALUES WILL TAKE UP A PROLONGED RESIDENCE BENEATH THE 15 PERCENT THRESHOLD...STAYING IN THE SINGLE DIGITS IN MANY LOCATIONS. THERE MAY BE SOME OCCASIONAL AFTERNOON GUSTS DUE TO STRONG DAYTIME HEATING. && .AVIATION...SCATTERED TO BROKEN CIRRUS NEAR OR ABOVE 20K FEET AGL. NORMAL SEASONAL DIURNAL WIND TRENDS AS HIGH PRESSURE EDGES IN FROM THE SOUTHWEST. AVIATION DISCUSSION NOT UPDATED FOR TAF AMENDMENTS. && .CLIMATE...FOR A COMPREHENSIVE LISTING OF FIRST 100 DEGREE DATES FOR SE AZ SEE WEATHER.GOV/TUCSON/CLIMATE/1ST100DATES.PHP. && .PREV DISCUSSION...DRY WESTERLY FLOW WITH PATCHES OF CIRRUS LEVEL MOISTURE. STRONG RIDGE BUILDING ACROSS LOWER LATITUDES OF THE EASTERN PACIFIC JUST UPSTREAM OF US. HEIGHT AND THICKNESS INCREASES WILL CONTINUE THE STRONG WARMING TREND WITH AFTERNOON HIGHS TOPPING OUT 10 TO 15 DEGREES ABOVE CLIMO BY THURSDAY AND FRIDAY. VALUES SHOULD BE ENOUGH FOR 100 DEGREE TEMPERATURES FOR MANY LOCATIONS BELOW 4K FEET INCLUDING TUCSON. STORM TRACK REMAINS WELL NORTH OF OUR AREA WITH BROAD HIGH ACROSS NORTHERN MEXICO DOMINATING OUR WEATHER INTO NEXT WEEKEND. && .TWC WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE. WEATHER.GOV/TUCSON
1 wildfire. Local standard time, as filed.
Wildfire burned near 5,000 acres near Fort Huachuca in Santa Cruz County. The fire burned at least four homes and six private vehicles near the west gate entrance. One injury was reported due to burns from the fire.
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