Alert archive / Arizona / Severe Thunderstorm Warnings in 2026
Severe Thunderstorm Warning 89, NWS Phoenix, AZ
NWS Phoenix, AZ issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Aug 23, 2026, 7:29 PM MST for La Paz County, Arizona. It was in force for 31 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 23, 2026, 7:29 PM MST (02:29 UTC)
- Expired
- Aug 23, 2026, 8:00 PM MST
- In force
- 31 min
- Issued by
- NWS Phoenix, AZ
- Area
- Storm-based polygon
- Hail
- 0.75 in
- Wind
- 60.0 mph
County La Paz County, AZ
The radar
The Yuma radar (KYUX), 151 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 02:29 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
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The nearest sounding before it
Phoenix, AZ (KPSR), launched 00:00Z, 2.5 hours before the alert went out and 189 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
- 309 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -169 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 3337 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 22 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- -3 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 47 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The office that day
Everything else NWS Phoenix, AZ issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 23, 5:07 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | PSR | 23 min | |
| Aug 23, 5:35 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | PSR | 40 min | |
| Aug 23, 7:24 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | PSR | 21 min | |
| Aug 23, 7:41 PM MST | Dust Storm Warning | PSR | Maricopa, Pinal | 49 min |
| Aug 23, 7:51 PM MST | Areal Flood Advisory | PSR | Maricopa | 3 hr |
| Aug 23, 8:03 PM MST | Dust Storm Warning | PSR | Maricopa, Pinal | 42 min |
| Aug 23, 8:23 PM MST | Dust Storm Advisory | PSR | Maricopa, Pinal | 52 min |
| Aug 23, 8:40 PM MST | Dust Storm Advisory | PSR | Maricopa, Pinal | 50 min |
| Aug 23, 8:47 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | PSR | Pinal | 118 min |
| Aug 23, 8:51 PM MST | Dust Storm Warning | PSR | Maricopa, Pinal | 39 min |
| Aug 23, 9:14 PM MST | Dust Storm Advisory | PSR | Maricopa | 46 min |
| Aug 23, 9:23 PM MST | Dust Storm Advisory | PSR | Maricopa | 67 min |
| Aug 23, 9:38 PM MST | Dust Storm Advisory | PSR | Maricopa | 67 min |
| Aug 23, 9:45 PM MST | Dust Storm Advisory | PSR | Maricopa | 45 min |
| Aug 23, 10:03 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | PSR | 27 min | |
| Aug 23, 10:12 PM MST | Dust Storm Advisory | PSR | Maricopa | 48 min |
| Aug 23, 10:47 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | PSR | 13 min | |
| Aug 23, 11:11 PM MST | Flash Flood Warning | PSR | Maricopa, Pinal | 3 hr |
| Aug 23, 11:19 PM MST | Special Weather Statement | PSR | Maricopa | 11 min |
| Aug 24, 12:39 AM MST | Special Weather Statement | PSR | La Paz | 36 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.