An area of low pressure moved across Southeast Arizona February 28th resulting in valley rain and higher elevation snowfall above 4500 feet.
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.
An area of low pressure moved across Southeast Arizona February 28th resulting in valley rain and higher elevation snowfall above 4500 feet.
3 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
Several inches of snow occurred in the lower elevations of the Santa Catalina Mountains above 4500 feet.
The town of Oracle had two inches of snow.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Arizona in 2010Every state in 2010This day in weather historyWarnings in Arizona, February 2010
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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 209553, 209554, 209555.