1,237 first-hand accounts of flood events in Arizona, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
Copious amounts of tropical moisture spread north and into the south-central deserts during the morning hours on October 2nd; the moisture was associated with the remnants of former hurricane Rosa.
Read the full account →Copious amounts of tropical moisture spread north and into the south-central deserts during the morning hours on October 2nd; the moisture was associated with the remnants of former hurricane Rosa.
Read the full account →Thunderstorms developed across the central portion of La Paz County during the evening hours on September 8th, and some of the stronger storms produced very heavy rainfall with peak rain rates approaching 2 inches per hour.
Read the full account →Isolated to scattered showers and thunderstorms developed across portions of La Paz County during the morning hours on August 3rd. Some of the stronger storms generated locally heavy rains with peak rain rates in excess of one inch per hour.
Read the full account →Scattered thunderstorms moved slowly southeast across portions of southeast Arizona from late morning on the 1st through the morning of the 2nd. Pockets of heavy rain totaling between 1 and 4 inches occurred in northeast Pinal County, southwest Graham County and Cochise County.
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 →With tropical moisture pouring into Southeast Arizona, several days of rainfall preceded the July 31st event. With grounds saturated at most locations, the additional rainfall that fell on the 31st had a hard time soaking into the ground and mainly stayed as runoff.
Read the full account →Moisture associated with Tropical Depression 19E caused widespread rain and thunderstorms over southeast Arizona during the afternoon and evening. The result was flash flooding in Picture Rocks, Sahuarita, Corona De Tucson and Thatcher.
Read the full account →High pressure returned to a favorable location over New Mexico, increasing moisture across southeast Arizona, with precipitable water values ranging from 1.2 to 1.6.
Read the full account →Scattered thunderstorms developed across the eastern portion of the greater Phoenix area during the evening hours on September 8th, and some of the stronger storms produced locally heavy rains with peak rain rates in excess of one inch per hour.
Read the full account →The center of high pressure was located over western Texas with a weak upper low over central California. Surface dewpoints were in the low to middle 60's with a precipitable water of 1.50 on the 12z KTWC sounding.
Read the full account →Scattered thunderstorms developed and moved west across southeast Arizona from the predawn hours through early afternoon. Some storms produced heavy rain and flash flooding in and around the Tucson Metro area, including the Bighorn Fire burn scar area.
Read the full account →Scattered to numerous showers and thunderstorms developed across much of central Arizona during the morning hours on August 19th, and they moved steadily towards the northeast for a period of several hours, affecting the greater Phoenix metropolitan areas as well as higher…
Read the full account →Scattered showers and thunderstorms developed during the morning hours across south central Arizona on October 9th, and due to an influx of tropical moisture from former tropical storm Simon, the storms were able to produce very heavy rainfall.
Read the full account →Thunderstorms developed across portions of south central Arizona during the late morning hours on August 9th, and some of the stronger storms produced locally heavy rainfall with peak rain rates reaching near 2 inches per hour.
Read the full account →Thunderstorms with heavy rain developed across the west central deserts, including much of central La Paz county, during the late afternoon hours on August 10th.
Read the full account →A very strong jet stream moving across the Pacific brought abundant moisture and significant precipitation to northern Arizona on January 21th. The snow level started out around 3400 feet with significant snow above 5000 feet.
Read the full account →Tropical Storm Newton barely weakened to a remnant low before crossing into Arizona. It brought strong winds and decent rainfall totals to much of southeast Arizona.
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 →A strong and cold upper level low pressure system was in place over the desert southwest on October 20th. The low was associated with elevated levels of moisture, instability and wind shear and as a result, scattered thunderstorms developed across south central Arizona, starting…
Read the full account →Scattered showers and thunderstorms, moving generally to the west, formed mainly over Graham, Pima, and Pinal counties during the afternoon. As the storms moved through Tucson they caused flash flooding from Marana to southwest Tucson, and also produced wind damage in parts of…
Read the full account →High pressure returned to a favorable location over New Mexico, increasing moisture across southeast Arizona, with precipitable water values ranging from 1.2 to 1.6.
Read the full account →With tropical moisture pouring into Southeast Arizona, several days of rainfall preceded the July 31st event. With grounds saturated at most locations, the additional rainfall that fell on the 31st had a hard time soaking into the ground and mainly stayed as runoff.
Read the full account →Simon, once rated a Category 4 hurricane with maximum sustained winds of 135 mph, was the fourth tropical system of 2014 to bring rainfall to southeastern Arizona.
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