Arizona Weather Force has issued a Severe Weather Statement for July 16th, 2024.
Zones Affected: Eastern half of Pima County, including Tucson – Santa Cruz County – Western half of Cochise County – Graham and Greenlee County.
Discussion: The ridge of high pressure will start to move to the northeast of Arizona starting tomorrow (Tuesday). The flow will start turning erratic as it does so, with two sections providing outflow boundaries. As stated today, Tucson should not get too bad of a storm, if at all for most of the ones that had the severe storms the other day. This flow will be for Tucson, so you had somewhat of a break today only to get hit on your Tuesday.
Severe Thunderstorms will form in two areas. The storms will form first in Eastern Cochise County first, and up into the Mt. Baldy area, in extreme Southern Apache County. The Cochise County storms will move westward similar to today, but the Mt. Baldy storms will move through Greenlee and Graham County over the afternoon hours. As evening hits, expecting these two areas to converge on Tucson, with damaging winds, large hail, and maybe a tornado risk as well. The main threat will be damaging winds with this type of setup.
Long Range: Expecting a return of Maricopa County storms to be widespread this weekend and into next week as a deeper moisture flow works in. Stay tuned to Arizona Weather Force for that forecast outline within the next day.
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