Excessive Heat in Arizona, August 12 to 20, 2020

Deaths

43

Injuries

0

Property damage

None recorded

Crop damage

None recorded

Events

32

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.

NWS Phoenix, AZ wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Aug 12, 3:53 AM MST, 6 hours 7 minutes earlier.

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The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.

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Excessive Heat

Heat at or above the local excessive heat warning criteria, or heat that caused deaths.

After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.

• Excessive Heat and Heat in Texas, August 12 to 16, 202070 events
• Damaging Wind in Virginia, August 12, 2020$100,000 · 60 kt wind · 1 event
• Flash Flooding and Debris Flows in Virginia, August 12 to 15, 2020$40,000 · 10 events
• Damaging Winds in New Jersey, August 12, 202055 kt wind · 33 events
• Wildfire in California, August 12 to 31, 20204 injured · 1 event
• Flash Flooding and Debris Flow in North Carolina, August 12 to 15, 2020$27,000 · 6 events
• Flash Flooding and Flooding in Maryland, August 12, 202016 events
• Flash Flooding and Damaging Winds in Kentucky, August 12 to 14, 2020$10,000 · 60 kt wind · 13 events
• Flash Flooding and Flooding in Virginia, August 12, 202010 events
• Flash Flooding in Arkansas, August 12, 202010 events
• Damaging Winds in Pennsylvania, August 12, 202050 kt wind · 10 events
• Flood and Hail in Tennessee, August 12, 2020$4,000 · 50 kt wind · 6 events

Every storm in Arizona in 2020Every state in 2020This day in weather historyWarnings in Arizona, August 2020

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: 992712, 992947, 992948, 992949, 992950, 992951, 992952, 992953, 992954, 992955, 992956, 992957, 992958, 992959, 992960, 992961, 992962, 992963, 992964, 992965, 992966, 992967, 992968, 992969, 992970, 992971, 992972, 992973, 992974, 992975, 992976, 992977.