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Dust Storm Warning 2, NWS Phoenix, AZ
NWS Phoenix, AZ issued this dust storm warning at Jul 12, 2026, 6:29 PM MST for Maricopa County, Pinal County, Arizona. It was in force for 46 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
- Jul 12, 2026, 6:29 PM MST (01:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 12, 2026, 7:15 PM MST
- In force
- 46 min
- Issued by
- NWS Phoenix, AZ
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
Counties Maricopa County, AZ, Pinal County, AZ
The radar
The Phoenix radar (KIWA), 29 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:32 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
The nearest sounding before it
Phoenix, AZ (KPSR), launched 00:00Z, 1.5 hours before the alert went out and 34 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 351 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -109 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 2912 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 30 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 9 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 73 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.1
The office that day
Everything else NWS Phoenix, AZ issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 12, 5:19 PM MST | Areal Flood Advisory | PSR | Gila, Maricopa | 4 hr |
| Jul 12, 5:32 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | PSR | Gila | 43 min |
| Jul 12, 6:09 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | PSR | Pinal | 36 min |
| Jul 12, 6:44 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | PSR | 31 min | |
| Jul 12, 6:54 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | PSR | Pinal | 51 min |
| Jul 12, 7:13 PM MST | Dust Storm Warning | PSR | Maricopa, Pinal | 92 min |
| Jul 12, 8:01 PM MST | Dust Storm Warning | PSR | Maricopa | 59 min |
| Jul 12, 9:00 PM MST | Dust Storm Advisory | PSR | La Paz, Maricopa, Yuma | 60 min |
| Jul 13, 4:11 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | PSR | Gila | 49 min |
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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; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.