WUFEI YU、JESSICA HILL 菲尼克斯报道 —— 高尔夫球大小的冰雹和破坏性阵风袭击了亚利桑那州北部和中部，这场罕见风暴横扫该州，带来了龙卷风风险和可能的山洪暴发。
WUFEI YU, JESSICA HILL PHOENIX — Hail the size of golf balls and damaging wind gusts pounded northern and central Arizona in a rare storm blowing through, bringing with it tornado risks and possible flash floods.
美国国家气象局发布了多项预警，随着强雷暴在周二夜间至周三移经该州，呼吁民众寻找掩蔽并远离窗户，因为直径 2 到 3 英寸的破坏性冰雹袭击了该地区。冰雹砸在人们的屋顶上，击碎窗户，凹陷汽车。
The National Weather Service issued multiple warnings as severe thunderstorms moved through the state overnight Tuesday and into Wednesday, encouraging people to seek shelter and stay away from windows as damaging 2-to-3-inch hail struck the area. Hail pummeled people’s roofs, shattered windows and dented cars.
多个地区发布了龙卷风监测预警 —— 这是该州自 2010 年 10 月 6 日以来首次发布此类预警。
Tornado watches were issued for multiple areas — the first the state has seen since Oct. 6, 2010.
“这种情况在该地区、这个季节非常罕见，”弗拉格斯塔夫美国国家气象局气象学家 Ryan Bernhart 说。
“This is very unusual for this area at this time of the year,” said Ryan Bernhart, a National Weather Service meteorologist in Flagstaff.
强风在弗拉格斯塔夫和梅萨吹倒了树木，一些树木砸在墙壁和车棚上。在弗拉格斯塔夫西北部的科科尼诺国家森林，有几十棵高 30 多英尺的ponderosa松树倒下。
Strong winds toppled trees in Flagstaff and Mesa, with some landing on walls and carports. A few dozen ponderosa pines over 30 feet tall fell down in the Coconino National Forest, northwest of Flagstaff.
“倒下的不是小树，”Bernhart 说，“这些是相当结实的树被吹倒了。”菲尼克斯美国国家气象局办公室气象学家 Mark O’Malley 说，对菲尼克斯都会区最大的威胁是今晚和周四上午的暴雨和山洪暴发。Jessica Hill 在拉斯维加斯报道。
“These are not small trees that are down,” Bernhart said. “These are pretty strong trees that had been knocked down.”The greatest threat to the Phoenix metro area is heavy rainfall and flash flooding tonight and Thursday morning, said Mark O’Malley, a meteorologist at the National Weather Service office in Phoenix. Jessica Hill reported from Las Vegas.