The TUS sounding this morning shows west-northwest winds in the 600 to 400 mb layer and precipitable water values down to 33.5 mm. The PHX sounding is drier with stronger winds.
Interestingly, the TUS sounding still has a fair amount of potential CAPE, so storms continue likely over mountains to the east.
I have just checked the 12Z soundings for TUS for the last four mornings. The winds in the 600 to 400 mb layer have been west-southwest to west-northwest each of these days and precipitable water has ranged from 42.9 to this morning's 33.5 mm. One could ask:
Did the monsoon end four days ago?
What kind of storms have been occurring with baroclinic westerly winds and lingering high moisture and CAPE?
I would call these "hybrid" or "mixed flow regime" storms since they are occurring in a meteorologically mixed environment. There is a preprint article about hybrid storms at:
http://www.wrh.noaa.gov/twc/monsoon/bobpres.php
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