Another strong trough moved into the area and brought widespread mountain snow across the region, especially in areas above 5000 feet.
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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 FGZ wrote it up.
Another strong trough moved into the area and brought widespread mountain snow across the region, especially in areas above 5000 feet.
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 Flagstaff, AZ wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Mar 6, 4:28 PM MST, 7 hours 32 minutes earlier.
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</html>The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
7 heavy snow. Local standard time, as filed.
Snowfall amounts on the Western Mogollon Rim ranged from 10.0 inches to 28.0 inches. The greatest amount of 28.0 inches fell at 4 WSW Williams. Munds Park and 2 SW Williams received 20.0 inches, Flagstaff Airport received 16.3 inches, and NWS Flagstaff in Bellemont received 15.5 inches.
Snowfall amounts in the Chuska Mountains ranged from 11.0 to 14.0 inches. The greatest amount of snow was 14.0 inches in Lukachukai.
Public reported 16.0 inches of snow at 4 N Ash Fork.
Snowfall amounts in the Yavapai County Mountains ranged from 4.5 to 14.0 inches. The greatest amount was 14.0 inches at 3 SW Walker. Ponderosa Park received 11.0 inches, Seligman and 2 S Ash Fork 9.0 inches, 8.2 inches 5.9 miles ENE of Dewey-Humbolt, 8.0 inches Crown King, and Prescott Airport received 4.5 inches.
Public reported 9.0 inches of snow in Forest Lakes.
Northern Gila County snowfall amounts ranged from 3.0 to 5.0 inches. The most reported was 5.0 inches at Young.
Snowfall amounts in the White Mountains ranged from 5.1 inches to 8.5 inches. The greatest amount was 8.5 inches at Pinetop-Lakeside 4.0 ESE.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
Every storm in Arizona in 2025Every state in 2025This day in weather historyWarnings in Arizona, March 2025
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: 1243106, 1243104, 1243108, 1243114, 1243107, 1243113, 1243105.