{"id":144874,"date":"2025-08-14T10:52:15","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T10:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/144874\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T10:52:15","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T10:52:15","slug":"severe-thunderstorm-warning-issued-for-phoenix-area-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/144874\/","title":{"rendered":"Severe thunderstorm warning issued for Phoenix area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Meteorologists warned of winds as strong as 60 mph. Officials warned of hail as large as 0.75 inches.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A severe thunderstorm was located over Tolleson and was nearly stationary. Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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><img alt=\"A palm tree catches fire from lightning at 18th Avenue and Flower Street in Phoenix on Aug. 13, 2025.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"742\" height=\"866\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/ca22da1124355ed9b837a6642eda515c.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A palm tree catches fire from lightning at 18th Avenue and Flower Street in Phoenix on Aug. 13, 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">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 class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The following highways were also expected to see rain, the weather service said:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"mb-4\">\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Interstate 17 between mile markers 215 and 229.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Loop 101 between mile markers 22 and 32.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">SR 51 between mile markers 14 and 15.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">This article originally appeared on Arizona Republic: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azcentral.com\/story\/news\/local\/phoenix-weather\/2025\/08\/13\/rain-phoenix-area-august-13-2025\/85652805007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Severe thunderstorm warning issued for Phoenix area;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Severe thunderstorm warning issued for Phoenix area<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A severe thunderstorm warning was issued by the National Weather Service in Phoenix through 10 p.m. on Aug.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":144875,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,5643,1587,85891,40889,85892,1588,85889,6231,1589,85888,59874,43164,85890,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-144874","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-arizona","10":"tag-az","11":"tag-downtown-peoria","12":"tag-glendale","13":"tag-glendale-sports-complex","14":"tag-maricopa-county","15":"tag-mile-markers","16":"tag-national-weather-service","17":"tag-phoenix","18":"tag-phoenix-international-raceway","19":"tag-severe-thunderstorm","20":"tag-severe-thunderstorm-warning","21":"tag-thunder-and-lightning","22":"tag-united-states","23":"tag-united-states-of-america","24":"tag-unitedstates","25":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","26":"tag-us","27":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115026745327180540","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144874","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=144874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144874\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}