July 26, Nighttime Hail Storm in Hereford, AZ

A strong thunderstorm developed on Chiricahua Mountains around 9PM and moved down to Sulphur Spring Valley with penny size hail. The storm produced ton of cloud-to-cloud lightnings and lot of cloud-to-ground lightnings too with strong updraft.



The storm was slightly weaken when passing north of Mule Mountains, but rapidly got stronger when moving down to San Pedro river and produce heavy rain and hail. I couldn't see any cloud-to-ground lightnings this time, but still lot of flashes in cloud.



10:34PM, rain started knocking roof with 20mph wind gust, and about 2 or 3 minutes later, a-half-inch size hails slammed the east side windows and sky light cover and the sound was like everything breaking out. The wind direction suddenly changed to southwest and some largest hails reached to 3/4 inch, and wind gusts recorded 30mph. The storm quickly moved out from Hereford and stayed for a while over Huachuca Mountains and got stronger before move down to Elgin, Canelo, and Patagonia area. At the time, I observed intense lightning flash in the storm, almost a flash per second.


Storm near Patagonia with intense lightning flashes in cloud.

July 14, 2014 Flash Flood in Sierra Vista

I captured this video at Lowes, Ford Dealer, highway 90 and highway 92 intersection, Best Buy, and Canyon General.

July 10, 2014 Thunderstorm with Heavy Rain Night

When I got time and grabbed camera the storms were dying and all good CG lightnings gone. The storm dropped 0.92" of rain at my home.

The best shot of last night.

July 8th, 2014 Lightning Pictures

A cluster of thunderstorms moved from Mexico around 10PM and new storms rapidly developed over mountains and produced heavy rain from Huachuca mountains to Patagonia in last night. There was not much of cloud-to-ground lightnings and I captured only two good shots. Otherwise, it was cloud-to-cloud lightnings and I could see the heavy rain in the light.

Radio Fire west of Whetstone, AZ Video

Whetstone fire named "Radio Fire". I captured this video yesterday evening around 6:40PM.

Brush Fire West of Whetstone Arizona

A brush fire started approximate 7 miles northwest of Whetstone, AZ around 5PM (maybe earlier). I guess the fire blacked about 80 acres at 6:30PM, and grew to about 130 acres when a thunderstorm approaches at 7:30. I'm not sure how many rainfall was received in the area, maybe between 0.2 to 0.4 inch, anyway the fire activity is low after the storm passing. I hope the fire be contained soon, before another round of thunderstorm wind hit the area tomorrow afternoon and evening. Be safe firefighters! and Thank you!



The wind direction changed suddenly southwest to northeast when a thunderstorm approached around 7:15PM. The first picture (left) was took about a half mile north of the location took another two pictures.



Looking from Sierra Vista at 7:26PM.

Monsoon arrived!

Storms developing over Chiricahua mountains and moving westward. I expect the storms and newly developing clouds arrive Sierra Vista and Hereford area around 4PM and later. Also expect strong gusty winds front of storms.