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An 8-year-old boy was electrocuted Friday evening as fellow spectators and ball-players were rushing to get out of a rain and lightning storm at the ballfields at Reid Park.

The Tucson Fire Department initially received a report that the boy had been hit by lightning, but Capt. Tricia Tracy, a department spokeswoman, said the boy was standing in a puddle about 10 feet from a light pole and could have been shocked after lightning struck the pole.

The boy was taken to University Medical Center with life-threatening injuries, Tracy said.

He was pronounced dead shortly after 7:30 p.m., said Sgt. Mark Robinson, a Tucson police spokesman. The boy's name was not released.

Robinson said city risk management officials will conduct an investigation into the death since it occurred on city property.

The boy was at Hi Corbett watching an American Legion baseball tournament.

The game had been postponed, and people were leaving when the lightning hit, Tracy said.

Friday's storms struck most heavily on the Northwest Side and in the Midtown area, dropping nearly 2 inches in some places and cutting electricity to roughly 1,700 customers.

The storms were different from a normal monsoon pattern as moisture from the remnants of Tropical Storm Dolly came into the area from Texas.

The storm pattern is expected to deliver heavy rain today and Sunday, with a 60 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms predicted by the National Weather Service.

The threat of flash flooding will be a major concern across the Tucson area this weekend.

The weather service reported 0.83 of an inch of rain fell in 15 minutes at Catalina State Park, and Oro Valley received 1.85 inches in about 40 minutes.

Pima County Regional Flood Control District sensors recorded 1.38 inches of rain at East Glenn Street and the Alamo Wash and 0.91 of an inch at Randolph Golf Course.

Despite the heavy storms elsewhere, the airport remained dry, and the official Tucson rainfall for the day was zero as of 10 p.m.

Tucson Electric Power spokesman Joseph Barrios said about 1,200 customers lost electricity after wires came down in Midtown area, with the outage centered along North Swan and East Grant roads.

Another 500 customers were without power in scattered outages, Barrios said.

Power lines were down, and there were reports of transformers sparking near Grant and Swan, Tracy said.

The likelihood of rain will drop slightly heading into Sunday night, with the National Weather Service predicting a 40 percent chance of precipitation.

Forecasts for Monday in the Tucson area are for a 30 percent chance of rain.

The remnants of Dolly will continue to bring an elevated chance of rainfall until more normal monsoon thunderstorm activity returns by about the middle of next week, according to the weather service.

On StarNet: Keep up-to-date with the weather forecast at azstarnet.com/weather.