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Dust Storm Warning 2, NWS Tucson, AZ

March 1, 2025Pima County, Pinal County, Arizona

NWS Tucson, AZ issued this dust storm warning at Mar 1, 2025, 3:40 PM MST for Pima County, Pinal County, Arizona. It was in force for 116 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Mar 1, 2025, 3:40 PM MST (22:40 UTC)
Expired: Mar 1, 2025, 5:36 PM MST
In force: 116 min
Issued by: NWS Tucson, AZ
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties Pima County, AZ, Pinal County, AZ

The radar

The Phoenix radar (KIWA), 88 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 22:40 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this dust storm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Tucson, AZ wrote its last area forecast discussion before this dust storm warning went out at Mar 1, 2:17 PM MST, 1 hour 23 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Mar 1, 2:17 PM MST, 1 hour 23 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Mar 1, 1:27 PM MST, 2 hours 13 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 1, 2:05 PM MST, 1 hour 35 minutes before

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Local storm report, Mar 1, 2:46 PM MST, 54 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Tucson, AZ issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Mar 1, 12:33 AM MST	Wind Advisory	TWC	Cochise, Graham, Greenlee, Pima, Pinal, Santa Cruz	17 hr
Mar 1, 12:43 PM MST	Dust Storm Warning	TWC	Pima, Pinal	3 hr
Mar 1, 1:10 PM MST	Fire Weather Watch	TWC	Cochise, Graham, Greenlee, Pinal	11 hr

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.