Dust Devil, Gila
- When
- June 30, 3:00 PM MST
- Where
- Gila County
- Coordinates
- 33.800, -110.812 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Dust Devil in Arizona, June 30, 1996
Large dust devil destroyed an aluminum shed.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it; 1 filed by county or forecast zone are drawn at its center, in a lighter ring. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- None recorded
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
What happened
The episode as NWS FGZ wrote it up.
Large dust devil destroyed an aluminum shed.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 dust devil. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Dust Devil
- A small rotating column of dust from surface heating that caused damage or injury.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Heat in Missouri, June 30, 1996
- Rip Current in Florida, June 30, 1996
- Rip Current in California, June 30, 1996
- Flash Flood in Kentucky, June 30, 1996
- Flash Flood in Kentucky, June 30, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Kansas, June 30, 1996
- Rip Current in Florida, June 30, 1996
- Damaging Wind in North Dakota, June 30, 1996
- Flood in Hawaii, June 30, 1996
- Hail in Oklahoma, June 30, 1996
- Hail in Oklahoma, June 30, 1996
- Flash Flood in Kansas, June 30, 1996
More
Every storm in Arizona in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyWarnings in Arizona, June 1996
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5552992.