Scattered thunderstorms moved west across Pinal, Pima and Santa Cruz counties during the afternoon and evening. Storms produced large hail in Tucson, Three Points and Rio Rico.
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The episode as NWS TWC wrote it up.
Scattered thunderstorms moved west across Pinal, Pima and Santa Cruz counties during the afternoon and evening. Storms produced large hail in Tucson, Three Points and Rio Rico. Hail damage was most extensive in Green Valley, and was accompanied by wind damage. On the Tohono O'odham Nation, isolated wind damage occurred along with a dust storm that stopped traffic on Highway 86.
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 16, 10:00 AM MST, 4 hours 20 minutes earlier.
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</html>The Tucson radar (KEMX), 62 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 21:20 UTC.
5 hail, 3 thunderstorm wind, 1 dust storm. Local standard time, as filed.
Quarter to ping pong ball size hail fell in Rio Rico Southwest for several minutes.
Thunderstorm winds downed a tree and blew part of the roof off a mobile home on W. Manor Dr. in Nogales.
Quarter to ping pong size hail fell across Tucson from Bilby and Houghton to Davis-Monthan AFB.
Ping pong size hail buffeted Green Valley for several minutes. Numerous sky lights were damaged and several houses suffered broken windows.
Thunderstorm winds blew down a road sign near the Continental exit of Interstate 19 and 100 trees were downed in Green Valley.
Thunderstorm winds downed a power pole south of Pisinemo near the junction of Routes 21 and 24.
Thunderstorm winds generated a wall of dust that progressed west across western portions of the Tohono O'odham Nation. Visibility was reduced to less than a quarter mile along Highway 86.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Arizona in 2022Every state in 2022This day in weather historyWarnings in Arizona, July 2022
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: 1048718, 1048719, 1048720, 1048722, 1048724, 1048725, 1049001, 1049024, 1049035.