Arizona, 2025Heat in Arizona, July 5 to 7, 2025
July 5 to 7, 2025 · NWS TWC · 3 events in 2 counties and zones
Temperatures in Southeastern Arizona were near to 6 degrees above normal, causing Low to Moderate HeatRisk. The Pima County Medical Examiner found that heat was a factor in the cause of death for 3 individuals, one in Tucson and one in Willcox were heat caused and one in Tucson was heat contributed.
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- Deaths
- 3
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 3
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.
Temperatures in Southeastern Arizona were near to 6 degrees above normal, causing Low to Moderate HeatRisk. The Pima County Medical Examiner found that heat was a factor in the cause of death for 3 individuals, one in Tucson and one in Willcox were heat caused and one in Tucson was heat contributed.
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 Jul 5, 2:30 AM MST, 7 hours 30 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Jul 5, 2:30 AM MST, 7 hours 30 minutes before
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</html>Heat, Eastern Cochise County Below 5000 Feet
- When
- July 5, 10:00 AM MST to 8:00 PM MST
- Where
- Eastern Cochise County Below 5000 Feet forecast zone
- Deaths
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Reported by
- County Official
- Coordinates
- 31.880, -109.751 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High temperatures in Southeastern Arizona were 4 degrees below normal, causing Minor HeatRisk. The Cochise County Airport in Willcox reached a high temperature of 95 degrees Fahrenheit. The Pima County Medical Examiner found that the cause of death for an individual in Willcox was heat caused.
Heat, Tucson Metro Area
- When
- July 6, 10:00 AM MST to 8:00 PM MST
- Where
- Tucson Metro Area forecast zone
- Deaths
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Reported by
- County Official
- Coordinates
- 32.097, -111.790 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High temperatures in Southeastern Arizona were 5 degrees above normal, causing Moderate HeatRisk. The Tucson International Airport reached a high temperature of 106 degrees Fahrenheit. The Pima County Medical Examiner found that the cause of death for an individual in Tucson was heat caused.
Heat, Tucson Metro Area
- When
- July 7, 10:00 AM MST to 8:00 PM MST
- Where
- Tucson Metro Area forecast zone
- Deaths
- 0 direct, 1 indirect
- Reported by
- County Official
- Coordinates
- 32.097, -111.790 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
High temperatures in Southeastern Arizona were 6 degrees above normal, causing Moderate HeatRisk. The Tucson International Airport reached a high temperature of 107 degrees Fahrenheit. The Pima County Medical Examiner found that the cause of death for an individual in Tucson was heat contributed.
- Heat
- Heat below excessive heat criteria that still caused deaths, injuries or significant impacts.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
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