Around 10:30 p.m., ADOT reported that a portion of a tree was blocking lanes on the 202 freeway. 60 and the Loop 202 Red Mountain Freeway in the East Valley. Those powerful monsoon rains also caused dangerous driving conditions on the U.S. “Like we saw in this particular case, you can get such a down rush of air out of this thunderstorm that can put winds upwards of around 100 mph that can produce damage like we saw last evening.” “When you’re talking microburst you’re just talking about these quick bursts of winds that hit the ground and they push everything in the same direction,” said Tom Frieders, the warning coordination meteorologist with the National Weather Service Phoenix. The National Weather Service said the damage was the result of a microburst. With such major damage in the Salt River Pima Maricopa Indian Community, many couldn’t help but wonder if it was a tornado. The family created a GoFundMe page to help them get back on their feet.ĭamage reports are coming in from all over the Valley after Sunday night's storms. Just kind of going through, see what we can find, important paperwork stuff like that,” Schurz said. “We just came over here to see what’s salvageable, see if we can find some clothes that are still good or not, wash them, see what happens. Schurz and other family members went through the rubble Monday afternoon to salvage what they could. I’m just thankful they’re alive, nobody’s hurt you know.” Interactive Data Map Past Contoured Rainfall Maps View past contoured rainfall maps by storm date. See our Publications section for prior daily total summaries. “The trailer just got demolished and you can see, this is it. Historic Precipitation Data Daily Totals at All Precipitation Gages View daily totals at all precipitation gages by month back to October 2010. “He just heard the trailer shaking, he grabbed his daughter and next you know he was laying in the puddle-the big old puddle-he was laying in the yard there,” said Eric Schurz, the man’s father. Video from the scene showed the mobile home reduced to piles of rubble with debris scattered across the property and roadway.Ī man and his daughter also lost their home during the storm. Authorities say the woman was trapped under debris after the monsoon hit Sunday night and was being treated for a broken vertebra. A sudden microburst near Gilbert Road and the State Route 87 on the Salt River Indian Reservation destroyed a mobile home, sending a 61-year-old woman to the hospital. Hundreds of APS customers in the Phoenix metro area lost service as well. Click/tap here for your latest 7-day First Alert forecastįor thousands of SRP customers, primarily those living in Mesa, power outages continue after more than 40,000 customers lost power just after 8:30 p.m.

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