Arizona Weather Force has issued a Severe Thunderstorm Watch effective for July 29, 2024
Zones Issued For: Pima County, including Tucson’s zone – Santa Cruz County – Cochise County –.
Discussion: A ridge of high pressure remains to the northeast of the watch zone today. Storms forming will move out of Cochise and Santa Cruz County and into Pima County later in the period. Thunderstorms are expected to rapidly develop in this broad upper divergent zone. Storms today will be capable of large hail, damaging winds, flooding, and isolated tornadoes.
LONG RANGE: Phoenix Metro, your stronger event looks to be centering toward this coming weekend. As always, I will be monitoring that event and issuing the alerts accordingly as we near it.
A Severe Thunderstorm Watch here at AZWF is issued 0-12 hours before the event is expected.
As always, we take it one day at a time with these events.