Posted on 08/02/2005 10:09:54 PM PDT by BurbankKarl
My buddy just sent me a txt msg saying the power is out, the streets are flooding, the cells are down, and he heard a wind shear or tornado hit the area
Thunderstorms Tuesday night downed power lines and created microbursts with winds surpassing 60 mph.
The storms moved northwest but first hit the southeast Valley, where they dumped more than an inch of rain in several areas and dropped hail in Mesa, said Leslie Wanek, meteorologist with the National Weather Service in Phoenix.
"It's really everything you could think of with a severe thunderstorm," Wanek said. advertisement
The Salt River in the far east Valley reported more than 2 ½ inches of rain in two hours, according to the Flood Control District of Maricopa County.
Storms to the north and southeast earlier in the day pushed winds into the Valley that met and created the late-night storm, Wanek said.
Several thousand customers of both the Salt River Project and Arizona Public Service lost power because of the storm, officials for the companies said.
The National Weather Service is partly sunny skies for Wednesday morning. The afternoon high is expected to be 102.
The chance of rain Wednesday night is 30 percent, according to the weather service.
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0802weather-ON.html
Mrs. DFU was supposed to return from Seattle today via Phoenix. She is stuck in Phoenix for the night.
I wish I'd have seen it. I love a good monsoon storm. Hope there was lots of lightning, but no fires.
I 17 flooded downtown Phoenix....cars underwater
Phoenix is a great city. She should stay awhile. Hotel rooms are cheap during the summer too!
http://www.azcentral.com/news/scanner.html
the Downtown Phoenix scanner.......East Valley seems down...they just turned that brand new Mesa digital system on last week.
The airline is paying for the hotel and food since her connecting flight was diverted and didn't get there.
I'm hearing downtown may have gotten 3 inches. For those who don't know. We normally get about 2.5 inches over the entire Monsoon season. This is really only the 2nd time this Monsoon season it has rained here, but AZ is having a wet year (and one of the worse fire seasons ever, with all the dry grass that grew in the desert which normally doesn't have much grass).
man, plenty of cars under water according to the scanner...they are going to run out of engines
The underpasses get flooded in a number areas where signs say don't cross when flooded... people go anyway and get stuck. Then they are on the news the next day.
This is a big storm, so there will be a lot of them
Again, our storm drains are a joke here.
We have a freeway that had to be closed because of flooding too I hear (part of the Squaw Peak)
they are forecasting up to two more inches!
Desert thunderstorm season is amazing, isn't it? We had a real humdinger out here in California just a little over a week ago.
Stay safe over there.
someones in trouble on East Bell Rd? Cant get to them, requesting a helo
We had 60 mph winds blow through here last night in a sudden and freak storm. 60 mph does not compare to a tornado, but they are getting up there. Lots of trees down...and it kicked up much dust. Visibility from the dust was near zero in places.
East Bell Rd & Black Canyon is North Phoenix.
Most of the stucked cars will be pulled out with a tow truck.
Rain has stopped here in South Phoenix.
When they start transporting victims in the Fire Engines, you know its too deep for the Southwest Ambulances
Or Soutwest went on strike again :)
On strike?
Ha...they do have some turnover there I understand.
How did the Chandler area hold up?
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