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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 17, NWS Phoenix, AZ

July 25, 2026Gila County, Arizona

NWS Phoenix, AZ issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Jul 25, 2026, 2:43 PM MST for Gila County, Arizona. It was in force for 32 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 25, 2026, 2:43 PM MST (21:43 UTC)
Expired: Jul 25, 2026, 3:15 PM MST
In force: 32 min
Issued by: NWS Phoenix, AZ
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

County Gila County, AZ

The radar

The Flagstaff radar (KFSX), 93 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 21:45 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 12:00Z, 9.7 hours before the alert went out and 115 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.

Skew-T log-p

Temperature in red, dew point in green, the mixed-layer parcel dashed.

Hodograph

The wind turning with height, colored by layer: ground to 1 km, 1 to 3 km, 3 to 6 km, 6 to 10 km.

Mixed-layer CAPE: 117 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -320 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 3138 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 22 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 21 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 109 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.1

Open this sounding in Storm Lab

The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jul 25, 2:56 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	PSR	Gila	64 min
Jul 25, 3:24 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	PSR	Gila	3 hr
Jul 25, 3:43 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	PSR	Maricopa	62 min
Jul 25, 4:24 PM MST	Dust Storm Advisory	PSR	Maricopa, Pinal	66 min

Nearby

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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.