1,237 first-hand accounts of flood events in Arizona, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.
Tropical moisture paired with a couple upper low systems led to the development of widespread rain and isolated thunderstorms across south-central Arizona over the course of the 19th through the 21st.
Read the full account →Tropical moisture paired with a couple upper low systems led to the development of widespread rain and isolated thunderstorms across south-central Arizona over the course of the 19th through the 21st.
Read the full account →A powerful Pacific low pressure system moving slowly through the desert southwest interacted with deep moisture to produce widespread heavy rain across the central deserts during the morning hours on November 29th.
Read the full account →A powerful Pacific low pressure system moving slowly through the desert southwest interacted with deep moisture to produce widespread heavy rain across the central deserts during the morning hours on November 29th.
Read the full account →A powerful Pacific low pressure system moving slowly through the desert southwest interacted with deep moisture to produce widespread heavy rain across the central deserts during the morning hours on November 29th.
Read the full account →A powerful Pacific low pressure system moving slowly through the desert southwest interacted with deep moisture to produce widespread heavy rain across the central deserts during the morning hours on November 29th.
Read the full account →A powerful Pacific low pressure system moving slowly east across Arizona interacted with deep moisture to produce widespread moderate to heavy rain across south central Arizona during the morning hours on November 29th.
Read the full account →A powerful Pacific low pressure system moving slowly east across Arizona interacted with deep moisture to produce widespread moderate to heavy rain across the central deserts during the morning hours on November 29th.
Read the full account →Tropical moisture paired with a couple upper low systems led to the development of widespread rain and isolated thunderstorms across south-central Arizona over the course of the 19th through the 21st.
Read the full account →A strong upper low developing to the west of northwest of Arizona began to import significant amounts of moisture, some of it tropical in nature, into southern Arizona on November 19th.
Read the full account →Tropical moisture paired with a couple upper low systems led to the development of widespread rain and isolated thunderstorms across south-central Arizona over the course of the 19th through the 21st.
Read the full account →Scattered thunderstorms developed across portions of the greater Phoenix metropolitan area during the evening hours on August 28th. Some of the stronger storms generated locally heavy rainfall sufficient to result in episodes of both street flooding as well as flash flooding.
Read the full account →Scattered thunderstorms developed across portions of La Paz County during the early afternoon hours on August 7th; some of the stronger storms produced locally heavy rainfall with peak rain rates in excess of one inch per hour.
Read the full account →Scattered thunderstorms developed across portions of La Paz County on September 23rd, beginning in the morning and continuing into the afternoon. Many of the storms produced intense rainfall with peak rain rates in excess of 2 inches per hour.
Read the full account →Scattered thunderstorms developed across portions of La Paz County on September 23rd, beginning in the morning and continuing into the afternoon. Many of the storms produced intense rainfall with peak rain rates in excess of 2 inches per hour.
Read the full account →Copious amounts of tropical moisture spread north and into south-central Arizona during the morning hours on September 23rd, leading to widespread showers and thunderstorms. Some of the stronger storms generated intense rain with peak rain rates between 1 and 2 inches per hour.
Read the full account →Copious amounts of tropical moisture spread north and into south-central Arizona during the morning hours on September 23rd, leading to widespread showers and thunderstorms. Some of the stronger storms generated intense rain with peak rain rates between 1 and 2 inches per hour.
Read the full account →Copious amounts of tropical moisture spread north and into south-central Arizona during the morning hours on September 23rd, leading to widespread showers and thunderstorms. Some of the stronger storms generated intense rain with peak rain rates between 1 and 2 inches per hour.
Read the full account →A slow moving, and powerful winter storm continued to slowly move east across Arizona on February 22nd; scattered rain and high elevation snow showers persisted into the afternoon hours across south-central Arizona with moderate rain still falling at times to the east of…
Read the full account →A very large are of low pressure brought wind, rain, and snow to northern Arizona Thanksgiving day and Black Friday. Strong southerly winds brought very moist air over Arizona with rising snow levels.
Read the full account →A significant rain event occurred across much of southeast Arizona November 27th through the 29th. Three-day rainfall totals of 1 inch were widespread, but the most rain fell in Cochise County and adjacent sections of Graham, Pima and Santa Cruz Counties where amounts of 2 to 3…
Read the full account →A significant rain event occurred across much of southeast Arizona November 27th through the 29th. Three-day rainfall totals of 1 inch were widespread, but the most rain fell in Cochise County and adjacent sections of Graham, Pima and Santa Cruz Counties where amounts of 2 to 3…
Read the full account →Moisture from the remnants of tropical system Nora produced moderate to heavy rainfall during the afternoon and evening hours with totals of 1 to 2 inches common and up to 3 inches in mountains, but the prolonged nature of the rain led to little if any significant flooding.
Read the full account →A strong high pressure system centered near the Four Corners and a decaying thunderstorm complex over northwest Mexico brought additional moisture across western Arizona.
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