Widespread snow, with periods of heavy snowfall, and gusty winds will create difficult to impossible travel across New Mexico and eastern Colorado through overnight Friday. The same system will bring heavy rain, severe weather, and windy conditions across the Southern Plains. Critical wildfire conditions persist across California where Red flag warnings are in effect. warnings are in effect Read More >
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A line of strong to severe thunderstorms rapidly intensified in strength in the late afternoon of July 10, 2021 along the Mogollon Rim. Low level rotation associated with this line of storms formed around 4:50 PM MST and produced a tornado that lasted from 5:01 PM until 5:07 PM MST. The EF1 tornado left a 1.25 mile damage path oriented northeast to southwest between Happy Jack and Clints Well, Arizona. Damage was limited to intermittent areas of damaged or downed pine trees along the tornado track.
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