Arizona Weather Force

Issued Zones: Extreme Southeast Pima County … Southern half of Cochise County … Santa Cruz County …Site: Arizona Weather Force has issued a Severe Thunderstorm Watch effective today until 10pm tonight …Date: 9/7/21 at 9:30 am PTForecast: An easterly flow will bring in mid-level moisture across the watch area today through later this evening. Developing instability is being noted in […]

Issued Zones: Western half of Pima County – Topawa/Lukeville –Site: Arizona Weather Force has issued a Severe Weather Statement effective Wednesday …Date: 9/7/21 at 10:10 am PTForecast: Remember when I stated that Arizona Weather Force is for all corners of the state, no matter where you live? Well this is going to be one of those alerts. If you know […]

Issued Zones: Mogollon Rim Communities … Flagstaff/Prescott/Chino Valley/Seligman/Kingman forecast zones …Site: Arizona Weather Force has issued a Hazardous Weather Outlook effective Wednesday through Friday …Date: 9/7/21 at 10:30 am PTForecast: The ridge of high pressure will migrate northeast of Arizona on Wednesday, which will start bringing in mid-level moisture out of New Mexico. Isolated thunderstorms will be likely on the […]

No way to put it, Tucson was hammered today without a warning from other weather services.  It just boggles the mind how they can miss these things.  I will tell you exactly why they do.  They are not trained in severe thunderstorm or tornado forecasting.  The severe storm forecasts are actually made from a centralized office in Oklahoma.  That office […]

Arizona Weather Force has issued an Enhanced Severe Thunderstorm Watch effective this afternoon through the evening for the following areas;  Eastern Pinal and Pima County, includes the Tucson Metro Zones – Santa Cruz, Graham, and Greenlee Counties.  Northwest Cochise County.  As per the commanding Severe Weather Statement issued two days ago and the video placed yesterday, the ridge of high […]

Issued Zones:  Eastern half of Pinal and Pima County, includes Tucson Metro … Santa Cruz, Cochise, Graham, and Greenlee Counties … Site:  Arizona Weather Force has issued a Severe Weather Statement effective this Sunday … Forecast Issued:  9/3/21 at 5:05pm PT Forecast: The monsoon ridge will develop over California on Saturday, finally moving into Central Nevada by Sunday.  The placement […]

Issued Zones:  Cochise County … Site:  Arizona Weather Force has issued a Weather Advisory effective now through Saturday morning – Date:  9/3/21 at 10:15am PT Forecast: The edge of the monsoon moisture will be across Cochise County today and through the overnight into Saturday morning.  Instability developing over this area today will pop off showers or thunderstorms.  The most coverage […]

Every beginning month or so I’ll issue a monthly forecast.  You can view August’s forecast here at this link.  We can note that it did extremely well, even predicting the end month activity we just saw. Here’s the link again – https://www.facebook.com/ArizonaWeatherForce/posts/635466727846107 September is cutoff low season.  It is the season where many think the monsoon will be ramping down, […]

Arizona Weather Force has issued an Enhanced Severe Thunderstorm Watch for Western Arizona, mainly along and near the Colorado River Valley.  Outflow from storms in Southern California will move in out of the southwest today and through the Enhanced Severe Thunderstorm Watch zone.  Aided by an upper-level low, upper jet stream dynamics are in play across the state today.  Where […]

The entire state of Arizona is about ready to ignite with a large area of severe thunderstorm dynamics.  The significant risk model does not mean it is the only area to see severe storms.  Tucson had damaging winds within a thunderstorm watch, however the model had scattered coverage in the forecast as well as high risk for wind damage, thus […]