Funnel Cloud, Maricopa
- When
- September 11, 2:40 PM MST to 2:45 PM MST
- Where
- Maricopa County, Ahwatukee
- Coordinates
- 33.349, -112.491 (the zone’s center; the record gives no point)
Funnel Cloud in Arizona, September 11, 1996
The public and a National Weather Service employee reported a funnel cloud over Ahwatukee. Visual sighting of the dissipating funnel was made from the National Weather Service Forecast Office in Phoenix.
Where it happened
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- 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 PSR wrote it up.
The public and a National Weather Service employee reported a funnel cloud over Ahwatukee. Visual sighting of the dissipating funnel was made from the National Weather Service Forecast Office in Phoenix.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
Event by event
1 funnel cloud. Local standard time, as filed.
What these are
- Funnel Cloud
- A rotating column of cloud extending from a thunderstorm that did not reach the ground.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Lightning Strike in Nebraska, September 11, 1996
- Hail in Michigan, September 11, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Florida, September 11, 1996
- Damaging Wind in New York, September 11, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Illinois, September 11, 1996
- Damaging Wind in Michigan, September 11, 1996
- Flash Flood in Florida, September 11, 1996
- Flash Flooding in New Mexico, September 11 to 12, 1996
- Lightning Strike in Florida, September 11, 1996
- Flash Flood in North Carolina, September 11, 1996
- Flash Flood in North Carolina, September 11, 1996
- Flash Flood in North Carolina, September 11, 1996
More
Every storm in Arizona in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyWarnings in Arizona, September 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 2026-10-01. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 5582797.