A tornado that was spawned over New River Monday amid a series of severe thunderstorms did touch down, the National Weather Service confirmed Tuesday. The tornado touched down in New River at 12:07 p.m., near 18th Street and Circle Mountain Road and remained on the ground for two minutes, according to the National Weather Service…
Tornado appears to touch down north of Phoenix
PHOENIX — A tornado appeared to have touched down north of Phoenix amid heavy thunderstorms Monday afternoon. A Facebook video shows swirling clouds and a funnel forming toward the ground in the New River area. The National Weather Service said it could not yet confirm that the tornado had touched ground but was looking into…
Possible tornado leaves damage, power outages near Willcox
TUCSON, Ariz. (KOLD News 13) – Crews in Cochise County are cleaning up after a possible tornado caused damage and power outages near Willcox. According to information from the Cochise County Sheriff’s Office, the possible tornado touched down northwest of Willcox off of Hamilton Road at a little after 9:30 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 23.…
NWS: Tornado spotted near Winslow
WINSLOW, AZ (3TV/CBS 5) – Tornadoes don’t happen often but a twister was spotted in northeastern Arizona on Sunday. The National Weather Service in Flagstaff said there was a tornado warning issued around 2:10 p.m. along I-40 just east of Two Guns and lasted until 2:30 p.m. “A tornado has been observed,” the agency said…
Rare landspout tornado gusts through Phoenix in wild night of severe weather
Not even Dorothy or Toto noticed on Thursday evening in Phoenix, when a small tornado touched down in the metro area just after 5 p.m. Surprisingly, the tornado was a minor inconvenience in the face of the destructive winds and flooding rainfall that slammed the downtown area in the monsoonal deluge. Several wet microbursts wrought…
Confirmed tornado touches down in Cochise County
TUCSON – For the second time this month, a tornado has touched down in Southern Arizona. News 4 Tucson viewer Laura Whitbeck Patino captured this twister in Western Cochise County late Saturday afternoon. In a Facebook post, Patino says the tornado was spotted near highway 90 between Benson and Whetstone around 4 PM. The National…
