Heat in Southeast Pinal County, Arizona

Heat May 11, 2007 – May 13, 2007 · Southeast Pinal County, Arizona

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What the National Weather Service wrote

The Pinal County Sheriff's office found two bodies, one of an illegal border crosser and another body that may or may not have been an illegal entrant. The bodies were found on Saturday, May 12th near Sunland Gin Road and West Harmon Road near Eloy, Arizona.

The wider storm

The first widespread 100 degree temperatures of the season occurred across Southeast Arizona on May 13th and 14th. High temperatures in many of the deserts west of Tucson approached 105F. NWS Tucson issued heat advisories advising the public of the unusually hot May temperatures.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 26373. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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