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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 73, NWS Phoenix, AZ

August 13, 2026Maricopa County, Pinal County, Arizona

NWS Phoenix, AZ issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 13, 2026, 4:24 PM MST for Maricopa County, Pinal County, Arizona. It was in force for 36 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: Aug 13, 2026, 4:24 PM MST (23:24 UTC)
Expired: Aug 13, 2026, 5:00 PM MST
In force: 36 min
Issued by: NWS Phoenix, AZ
Area: Storm-based polygon
Hail: 0.75 in
Wind: 60.0 mph

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 23:23 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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The nearest sounding before it

Phoenix, AZ (KPSR), launched 12:00Z, 11.4 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.

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: 70 J/kg
Mixed-layer CIN: -100 J/kg
Mixed-layer LCL: 1318 m above ground
0-6 km bulk shear: 21 kt
0-1 km storm-relative helicity: 64 m²/s²
0-3 km storm-relative helicity: 55 m²/s²
Significant tornado parameter: 0.0
Supercell composite: 0.0

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What forecasters said that day

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

NWS Phoenix, AZ wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Aug 13, 1:22 PM MST, 3 hours 2 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Aug 13, 1:22 PM MST, 3 hours 2 minutes before

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In the hours before

Local storm report, Aug 13, 2:46 PM MST, 1 hour 38 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 13, 2:48 PM MST, 1 hour 36 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 13, 2:49 PM MST, 1 hour 35 minutes before

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Local storm report, Aug 13, 2:50 PM MST, 1 hour 34 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Aug 13, 4:08 PM MST, 16 minutes before

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The office that day

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

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Aug 12, 5:05 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PSR	La Paz	40 min
Aug 12, 5:13 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	PSR	Maricopa	32 min
Aug 12, 5:20 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PSR	Maricopa	40 min
Aug 12, 5:24 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	PSR	La Paz	7 hr
Aug 12, 5:45 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	PSR	La Paz	3 hr
Aug 12, 5:48 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PSR	Maricopa	27 min
Aug 12, 6:11 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	PSR	La Paz, Yuma	2 hr
Aug 12, 6:19 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	PSR	La Paz	6 hr
Aug 12, 6:25 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	PSR	La Paz	5 hr
Aug 12, 6:26 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PSR	La Paz	34 min
Aug 12, 6:40 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	PSR	Maricopa	3 hr
Aug 12, 6:43 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PSR	Maricopa	32 min
Aug 12, 7:08 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PSR	La Paz	37 min
Aug 12, 7:24 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	PSR	La Paz	5 hr
Aug 12, 7:45 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PSR	La Paz	45 min
Aug 12, 8:19 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	PSR	Maricopa	79 min
Aug 12, 9:11 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	PSR	La Paz, Maricopa	3 hr
Aug 12, 9:38 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	PSR	Maricopa	3 hr
Aug 12, 9:56 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	PSR	La Paz	34 min
Aug 12, 10:11 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	PSR	Maricopa	3 hr
Aug 12, 10:36 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning Considerable damage threat	PSR	La Paz	3 hr
Aug 12, 10:48 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	PSR	La Paz	42 min
Aug 12, 11:33 PM MST	Extreme Heat Watch	PSR	La Paz, Maricopa, Pinal, Yuma	59 hr
Aug 13, 12:10 AM MST	Areal Flood Warning	PSR	La Paz	6 hr
Aug 13, 4:08 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	PSR	Maricopa	37 min
Aug 13, 4:40 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	PSR	Maricopa	3 hr
Aug 13, 4:46 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	PSR	Maricopa	29 min
Aug 13, 4:54 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	PSR	Maricopa	36 min
Aug 12, 5:08 PM MST	Dust Storm Warning	PSR	Imperial, Riverside	52 min
Aug 12, 5:53 PM MST	Dust Storm Warning	PSR	Imperial, Riverside	67 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.