Photos: Microburst from Monday's monsoon causes damage in northeast area of Tucson

The first major monsoon storm to hit the Tucson metro area Monday evening produced a microburst that damaged homes and toppled power poles in the Catalina Foothills. “There was definitely a microburst that happened in the Catalina Foothills and it…

“There was definitely a microburst that happened in the Catalina Foothills and it caused a lot of the damage,” said Kevin Strongman, a meteorologist for the National Weather Service in Tucson. “A microburst is basically a sudden collapse of the storm’s core, pushing all the cold air and winds from 30,000 feet all the way down.

Several trees and branches were down in the parking lot at the Safeway grocery store on July 18, 2023.A worker from Pima County Transportation repairs malfunctioning traffic lights at the intersection of East Sunrise Drive and North Campo Abierto on July 18, 2023.A tree blew over after a microburst from a monsoon storm rolled through the Sunrise Village shopping complex near North Swan Road and East Sunrise Drive on Monday afternoon.

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