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Flash Flood — Santa Cruz, AZ

Jul 27, 2014

High pressure remained over New Mexico with adequate moisture across southeast Arizona in east to southeast flow. Thunderstorms moved west and northwest across southeast Arizona producing damaging winds and flash flooding from the evening hours of the the 26th into the early morning hour of the 27th.

Source: NOAA National Weather Service Storm Events Database (event 538211). Narrative written by NWS staff at the time of the event.

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