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Arizona Flood Stories

1,237 first-hand accounts of flood events in Arizona, ranked by impact. Each is a NOAA-written narrative of the moment.

Flash Flood

Maricopa, AZ · Nov 20, 2019

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.

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Flash Flood

Maricopa, AZ · Nov 20, 2019

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.

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Flash Flood

Maricopa, AZ · Nov 29, 2019

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.

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Flash Flood

Maricopa, AZ · Nov 29, 2019

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.

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Flash Flood

Maricopa, AZ · Nov 29, 2019

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.

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Flash Flood

Maricopa, AZ · Nov 29, 2019

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.

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Flash Flood

Maricopa, AZ · Nov 29, 2019

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.

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Flash Flood

Maricopa, AZ · Nov 29, 2019

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.

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Flash Flood

Maricopa, AZ · Nov 20, 2019

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.

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Flash Flood

Pinal, AZ · Nov 19, 2019

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.

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Flash Flood

Maricopa, AZ · Nov 20, 2019

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.

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Flash Flood

Maricopa, AZ · Aug 28, 2019

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.

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Flash Flood

La Paz, AZ · Aug 7, 2019

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.

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Flash Flood

La Paz, AZ · Sep 23, 2019

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.

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Flash Flood

La Paz, AZ · Sep 23, 2019

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.

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Flash Flood

Maricopa, AZ · Sep 23, 2019

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.

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Flash Flood

Maricopa, AZ · Sep 23, 2019

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.

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Flash Flood

Maricopa, AZ · Sep 23, 2019

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.

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Flood

Maricopa, AZ · Feb 22, 2019

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…

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Flood

Yavapai, AZ · Nov 29, 2019

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.

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Flood

Cochise, AZ · Nov 27, 2019

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…

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Flood

Cochise, AZ · Nov 28, 2019

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…

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Flood

Pima, AZ · Aug 31, 2021

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.

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Flash Flood

Yavapai, AZ · Jul 14, 2022

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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