{"id":144590,"date":"2025-08-14T08:20:14","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T08:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/144590\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T08:20:14","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T08:20:14","slug":"severe-thunderstorm-warning-issued-for-phoenix-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/144590\/","title":{"rendered":"Severe thunderstorm warning issued for Phoenix area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;right:0;bottom:0;width:100%;height:100%;z-index:2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/85653168007-screenshot-20250813-214646.jpg\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"vidplayicon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/appservices\/universal-web\/universal\/icons\/icon-play-alt-white.svg\" alt=\"play\" style=\"height:40px;margin:auto 18px auto 27px;width:40px\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Rain at 16th and Colter streets in Phoenix<\/p>\n<p>Rain at 16th and Colter streets in Phoenix on Aug. 13, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>A severe thunderstorm warning was issued by the National Weather Service in Phoenix through 10 p.m. on Aug. 13. The warning applied to Maricopa County.<\/p>\n<p>Meteorologists warned of winds as strong as 60 mph. Officials warned of hail as large as 0.75 inches.<\/p>\n<p>A severe thunderstorm was located over Tolleson and was nearly stationary. Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.<\/p>\n<p>Locations impacted include: Phoenix, Glendale, Avondale, Goodyear, Tolleson, Laveen, Cashion, Glendale Sports Complex, Arizona State Fairgrounds, Phoenix International Raceway, Downtown Peoria, Downtown Glendale, and Camelback Ranch.<\/p>\n<p>This included the following highways: Interstate 10 between mile markers 128 and 144; Interstate 17 between mile markers 199 and 202; U.S. 60 between mile markers 150 and 160.<\/p>\n<p>The National Weather Service warned: &#8220;For your protection move to an interior room on the lowest floor of a building. Large hail, damaging wind, and continuous cloud to ground lightning are occurring with this storm. Move indoors immediately. Lightning is one of nature&#8217;s leading killers. Remember, if you can hear thunder, you are close enough to be struck by lightning.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Pouring rain came down in Phoenix on State Route 51 and Indian School Road about 8:40 p.m. while thunder and lightning were reported near Tatum Boulevard and Bell Road. Light rain was seen near Bethany Home Road and 16th Street in Phoenix just before 8:50 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The following highways were also expected to see rain, the weather service said:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Interstate 17 between mile markers 215 and 229.<\/li>\n<li>Loop 101 between mile markers 22 and 32.<\/li>\n<li>SR 51 between mile markers 14 and 15.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rain at 16th and Colter streets in Phoenix Rain at 16th and Colter streets in Phoenix on Aug.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":144591,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5131],"tags":[11305,73811,63182,2529,839,5229,32867,85727,5643,1587,8746,85724,85731,85723,85729,85730,3059,31420,984,11042,77689,85733,6995,85726,425,728,9814,60768,69771,1588,1571,6231,635,85725,7233,50,940,1589,85732,6773,8743,6228,1607,5314,67,586,132,5230,68,2969,16225,7223,313,11039,85728],"class_list":["post-144590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-phoenix","tag-cdp","tag-73811","tag-63182","tag-air","tag-airport","tag-america","tag-anthem","tag-anthem-cdp","tag-arizona","tag-az","tag-az-now","tag-carefree","tag-carefree-cdp","tag-cave","tag-cave-creek","tag-cave-creek-cdp","tag-county","tag-creek","tag-deer","tag-hail","tag-interstate","tag-interstate-17","tag-lightning","tag-lightning-strikes","tag-local","tag-local-news","tag-loop","tag-loop-101","tag-maricopa","tag-maricopa-county","tag-national","tag-national-weather-service","tag-new","tag-new-river-cdp","tag-new-visitors-az","tag-news","tag-now","tag-phoenix","tag-phoenix-deer-valley-airport","tag-rain","tag-river","tag-service","tag-strikes","tag-thunderstorms","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa","tag-valley","tag-visitors","tag-weather","tag-wind","tag-wind-air"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}