1,237 first-hand accounts of flood events in Arizona, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
Scattered to numerous showers and thunderstorms occurred across portions of La Paz County during the very early morning hours on September 24th. Many of the stronger storms produced heavy rain with peak rain rates well in excess of one inch per hour.
Read the full account →Scattered to numerous thunderstorms developed across the greater Phoenix metropolitan area during the morning hours on August 5th and due to high levels of moisture in the atmosphere, the storms quickly generated very heavy rains.
Read the full account →Thunderstorms developed across La Paz County during the early afternoon hours on July 11th; some of the stronger storms produced intense rainfall that led to flash flooding near the town of Quartzsite.
Read the full account →Scattered to numerous thunderstorms developed and moved north across the southwest and west portion of the greater Phoenix area during the evening hours on August 2nd.
Read the full account →Thunderstorms developed across the central deserts during the afternoon hours on July 11th, and the stronger storms produced intense rainfall that led to episodes of flash flooding to the south of Phoenix, mainly across the northwest portions of Pinal County.
Read the full account →Scattered to numerous thunderstorms developed and moved north across the southwest and west portion of the greater Phoenix area during the evening hours on August 2nd.
Read the full account →Scattered to numerous showers and thunderstorms developed across the south central Arizona deserts, including the greater Phoenix metropolitan area, during the morning hours on September 7th.
Read the full account →Scattered thunderstorms drifted southwest across southeast Arizona throughout the entire day and into the evening. One storm produced a funnel cloud near Willcox.
Read the full account →A storm system moved through southern Arizona February 14th and 15th. This brought heavy rainfall to the Rincon and Santa Catalina Mountains and Tucson metro area and caused flooding along the Rillito River, Tanque Verde Creek, Sabino Creek and Rincon Creek.
Read the full account →Plentiful tropical moisture spread into central Arizona ahead of a tropical depression named 16-E, creating a very moist and unstable atmosphere.
Read the full account →Scattered thunderstorms developed across the northern portion of the greater Phoenix metropolitan area during the evening hours on August 16th. The storms produced locally heavy rainfall with rain rates well in excess of one inch per hour.
Read the full account →Scattered to numerous monsoon thunderstorms developed across portions of south central Arizona, including the greater Phoenix metropolitan area, on August 3rd. Some of the thunderstorms generated intense rainfall with peak rain rates approaching 2 inches per hour.
Read the full account →Scattered to numerous monsoon thunderstorms developed across portions of south central Arizona, including the greater Phoenix metropolitan area, on August 3rd. Some of the thunderstorms generated intense rainfall with peak rain rates approaching 2 inches per hour.
Read the full account →Strong thunderstorms developed across portions of La Paz County during the afternoon hours on August 10th; the stronger storms produced strong damaging microburst winds as well as locally heavy rainfall.
Read the full account →Strong thunderstorms developed across portions of La Paz County during the afternoon hours on August 10th; the stronger storms produced strong damaging microburst winds as well as locally heavy rainfall.
Read the full account →Scattered monsoon thunderstorms developed across the greater Phoenix area at various times of the day, including the early afternoon and late evening hours, on August 12th.
Read the full account →Scattered to numerous thunderstorms developed across the greater Phoenix area during the morning hours on August 13th and they produced locally heavy rainfall which led to a number of flash flooding episodes that affected communities such as Surprise, Glendale and Tempe.
Read the full account →Scattered to numerous thunderstorms developed across the greater Phoenix area during the morning hours on August 13th and they produced locally heavy rainfall which led to a number of flash flooding episodes that affected communities such as Surprise, Glendale and Tempe.
Read the full account →Scattered to numerous thunderstorms developed across the greater Phoenix area during the morning hours on August 13th and they produced locally heavy rainfall which led to a number of flash flooding episodes that affected communities such as Surprise, Glendale and Tempe.
Read the full account →Scattered monsoon thunderstorms developed during the afternoon hours across portions of south-central Arizona, and they persisted into the evening hours bringing typical convective weather hazards to the lower deserts.
Read the full account →Scattered monsoon thunderstorms developed across much of the greater Phoenix area during the evening hours on July 16th and they generated a number of the typical seasonal weather hazards.
Read the full account →Scattered monsoon thunderstorms developed across portions of La Paz County during the early afternoon hours on July 24th, and some of them produced intense rainfall with peak rain rates in excess of one inch per hour.
Read the full account →Thunderstorms with heavy rain developed across much of south-central Arizona during the evening hours on July 23rd and many of them affected the greater Phoenix metropolitan area, especially the eastern and southeast portion.
Read the full account →Scattered to numerous showers and thunderstorms developed across much of south-central Arizona, including the greater Phoenix metropolitan area, during the morning hours on July 24th.
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