Excessive Heat in Tohono O Odham Nation, Arizona

Excessive Heat July 11, 2022 · Tohono O Odham Nation, Arizona

Deaths

What the National Weather Service wrote

Very hot high temperatures around 10 degrees above normal occurred on July 11, causing the High Heat Risk category to be reached. Sells topped out at 109 degrees. The Pima County Medical Examiner confirmed that heat was the primary cause of death for two individuals found in the desert near Sells.

The wider storm

Very hot temperatures 5 to 10 degrees above normal were experienced across the western deserts of southeast Arizona on July 10 and 11. The Pima County Medical Examiner confirmed that heat was the primary cause of death for one individual found in outdoors in Ajo on the 10th and for four individuals found the desert on the 11th: two on the Tohono O'odham Nation; one in east central Pima County; and one in Santa Cruz County.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1050400. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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