Tornado Touchdowns in Arizona

Early Wednesday morning, 4 tornadoes created a path of destruction near Flagstaff, Arizona.  This sparsely populated part of Arizona may see 4 tornadoes a year, but rarely sees clusters of tornadoes traveling together.  This storm system, moving over the west caused other problems as well, particularly in Utah.  Two teenagers were stuck by lightning outside of school Tuesday afternoon and airlifted to a hospital in Vegas.

The weather is coming from a low pressure system that had stationed itself over parts of California.  Arizona was the hardest hit though. (although don't ask the teenagers stuck by lightning who they think was the hardest hit!) .  On Tuesday, storms ripped out trees and broke windows in metropolitan Phoenix, flooded roadways, shut airports and dented cars and shattered windows with hail bigger than golf balls in some places.  On Wednesday, semitrailers were sitting along the side of Interstate 40. High winds cast dozens of cars of a freight train off the tracks in Bellemont around 6:30 a.m. No one was injured and the cars did not contain any hazardous materials.

About thirty homes had to be evacuated due to damages sustained from the tornadoes. 


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