Storms cause major disruptions across Valley, expected to continue Tuesday

PHOENIX — Waves of storms that caused major disruptions across the Valley on Monday are expected to continue Tuesday.

The National Weather Service is predicting storms to cause heavy rain Tuesday, a day after several areas experienced flooding, power outages, road closures and more.

Some suburbs received more than three inches of rain Monday and hail was observed in north Phoenix.

Solid chunk of hail when the rain rapidly switched to hail in NE Phoenix #abc15 #abc15wx pic.twitter.com/H4QoTADzzM

— Nohelani Graf (@NoheG) September 24, 2019

The storms prompted first responders to conduct multiple water rescues.

Superstition Fire and Medical District said on Twitter that crews rescued a woman and her small child from an Apache Junction wash.

The department said it had received five water rescue calls in the city.

“Water rescues can be an individual in a canal or in a flooded area, and/or individuals inside vehicles,” Forrest Smith, deputy chief with the Mesa Fire and Medical Department, told KTAR News 92.3 FM.

The weather also saw a a tornado that appeared to have touched down north of Phoenix on Monday afternoon

A Facebook video showed swirling clouds and a funnel forming toward the ground in the New River area.

Thousands of Valley residents were without power for parts of the day.

Nearly 5,000 customers, most of them with Salt River Project, experienced outages in the afternoon, according to outage maps.

Those were cleared up within hours, but another wave of storms left about 10,000 customers without electricity for what was expected to be hours, mostly in central Phoenix, in the early evening.

SRP customers were hit hardest with more than seven significant outages in Phoenix and Paradise Valley impacting more than 7,600 customers around 6:30 p.m.

The biggest outage of the evening hit more than 1,800 Arizona Public Service customers between Thomas Road and Culver Street and between Seventh and 20th streets.

Nearly 800 APS customers east of downtown Phoenix, between Moreland and McKinley streets and between Fifth and 11th streets, also lost power.

Several roads had closures and restrictions because of the storm water.

I-17 SB off-ramp at Glendale: The ramp is closed for standing water. #phxtraffic pic.twitter.com/WOmeTSwvEi

— Arizona DOT (@ArizonaDOT) September 24, 2019

The city of Phoenix set barricades at 91st Avenue from Southern Avenue to Baseline Road at 7 p.m. due to flows that reached the area.

Valley freeway ramps were also restricted in parts because of standing water.

Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport saw a total of 26 delays and two cancellations from the storms, the airport said in an email.

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