Name: Damaging Wind in Arizona, June 22, 2015
Start: 2015-06-22T18:58
End: 2015-06-22T19:07
Location: Arizona

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The toll

Deaths: 0
Injuries: 0
Property damage: None recorded
Crop damage: None recorded
Events: 1

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.

What happened

The episode as NWS TWC wrote it up.

High pressure over northeast New Mexico resulted in weak east flow aloft. Thunderstorms initiated in northern Sonora Mexico and far southeast Arizona with isolated severe wind gusts in Cochise County.

What forecasters said that day

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 Jun 22, 1:53 PM MST, 5 hours 5 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Jun 22, 1:53 PM MST, 5 hours 5 minutes before

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TUCSON AZ
153 PM MST MON JUN 22 2015

.SYNOPSIS...HOT TEMPERATURES TO START THE WEEK...BUT NOT QUITE AS
HOT AS LAST WEEK. A MOISTURE INCREASE WILL BRING AN INCREASING
CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS BY TUESDAY INTO NEXT WEEKEND. AS
THIS HAPPENS...DAYTIME TEMPERATURES WILL MODERATE CLOSER TO SEASONAL
NORMALS BY THE END OF THE WEEK.

&&

.DISCUSSION...THE MAIN FOCUS HAS SHIFTED FROM THE HEAT TO THE ONSET
OF SHOWER AND THUNDERSTORM ACTIVITY FOR THE MONSOON SEASON. LATEST
MODELS STILL INDICATED THAT THE WEATHER PATTERN WILL EVOLVE INTO A
TYPICAL MONSOON TYPE PATTERN BY THE END OF THE WEEK. IN GENERAL...
MOISTURE WILL BE ON THE INCREASE THIS WEEK AS RIDGE OF HIGH PRESSURE
ALOFT BECOMES CENTERED OVER THE CENTRAL UNITED STATES AND AN
INVERTED TROUGH MOVES INTO MEXICO. THIS INVERTED TROUGH WILL AID IN
PUSHING DEEPER MOISTURE INTO THE DESERT SOUTHWEST AROUND THE MIDDLE
OF THE WEEK. MOISTURE IN COMBINATION WITH THE UPPER-LEVEL TROUGH
WILL BRING A NOTICEABLE INCREASE IN SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS TO THE
AREA WEDNESDAY INTO FRIDAY. HIGH PRESSURE ALOFT WILL RECONSOLIDATE
AND AMPLIFY OVER THE GREAT BASIN OVER THE WEEKEND WITH RAIN CHANCES
REMAINING IN THE FORECAST. BASED ON THE PROJECTED SHOWERS AND
THUNDERSTORMS...DAYTIME TEMPERATURES WILL GRADUALLY LOWER THIS WEEK
TO NEAR NORMAL READINGS BY FRIDAY.

&&

.AVIATION...VALID THROUGH 24/00Z.
CLEAR TO MOSTLY CLEAR SKIES...WITH THE EXCEPTION CUMULUS OVER
SOUTHERN AND EASTERN AREAS AROUND 8-10K FT AGL THRU THIS EVENING.
ISOLATED -SHRA/-TSRA WILL THEN OCCUR NEAR THE AZ/MEXICO BORDER AND
THE WHITE MOUNTAINS...MAINLY BETWEEN 23/00Z AND 23/06Z. WINDS
WLY/NWLY WIND AT 10-15 KTS. SLIGHTLY STRONGER WINDS WITH A FEW GUSTS
AROUND 25 KTS ARE POSSIBLE NEAR KSAD. ANY -SHRA/-TSRA NEAR THE
KOLS/KDUG/KALK TERMINALS COULD PRODUCE GUSTS TO NEAR 40 KTS. DRY
CONDITIONS AND LIGHT TERRAIN DRIVEN WINDS SHOULD RETURN AFTER
23/06Z. AVIATION DISCUSSION NOT UPDATED FOR TAF AMENDMENTS.

&&

.FIRE WEATHER...HIGH PRESSURE WILL MIGRATE NORTHEAST OF THE AREA
ALLOWING EAST TO SOUTHEAST FLOW TO DEVELOP ACROSS THE DESERT SW.
THIS WILL BEGIN TO GRADUALLY DIRECT MONSOON MOISTURE ACROSS SE
ARIZONA. A FEW ISOLATED SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE POSSIBLE NEAR
THE INTERNATIONAL BORDER AND THE WHITE MOUNTAINS LATE THIS EVENING.
ON TUESDAY AFTERNOON...CONVECTION WILL OCCUR OVER THE EASTERN PART
OF THE AREA...ZONES 152...153 AND SOUTHERN 151. COVERAGE OF STORMS
WILL THEN SPREAD WESTWARD EACH AFTERNOON THROUGH REST OF THE
WEEK...WITH STORMS POSSIBLE ACROSS THE ENTIRE AREA BY THE UPCOMING
WEEKEND.

CONVECTION EARLY THIS WEEK WILL BRING A THREAT FOR DRY LIGHTNING AND
STRONG GUSTY OUTFLOWS. OTHERWISE...DIURNAL WIND TRENDS WILL BE THE
RULE...WITH NW AFTERNOON BREEZES THROUGH TUESDAY AND EASTERLY FLOW
DEVELOPING ACROSS ERN ZONES WEDNESDAY AND THURSDAY. A RETURN TO NW
AFTERNOON BREEZES WILL OCCUR FRIDAY INTO THE WEEKEND.

&&

.TWC WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...NONE.

&&

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The radar

The Tucson radar (KEMX), 109 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:57 UTC.

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Event by event

1 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.

Thunderstorm Wind, Cochise

When: June 22, 6:58 PM MST to 7:07 PM MST
Where: Cochise County, 0.88 mi SSE of (Dug)bisbee Douglas to 1.52 mi SW of (Dug)bisbee Douglas
Measured: 56 kt (64 mph) measured gust
Reported by: ASOS
Coordinates: 31.458, -109.596

What these are

Thunderstorm Wind: Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.

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Sources

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 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 588780.