Special Weather Statement
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Special Weather Statement issued September 15 at 4:45PM MST by NWS Phoenix AZ
- Issued
- Onset
- Expires
- Category
- Meteorological
- Urgency
- Expected
- Severity
- Moderate
- Certainty
- Observed
- Response
- Execute
Description
Overview
At 445 PM MST, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm over Painted Rock Dam, or 18 miles north of Gila Bend, moving north at 15 mph.
Hazard
Wind gusts up to 50 mph.
Source
Radar indicated.
Impacts
Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around unsecured objects. Locations impacted include... Buckeye, Palo Verde, Painted Rock Dam, Palo Verde Nuclear Generation Station, Wintersburg, Hassayampa, and Arlington. This includes AZ Route 85 between mile markers 145 and 150.
Instructions
If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.
Affected areas
- Tonopah Desert
- Buckeye/Avondale
Public contact
- Issuer
- NWS Phoenix AZ
- Website
- http://www.weather.gov
Message record
- Received
- CAP status
- Actual
- CAP message type
- Alert
- Lifecycle
- New
- Source
- NWWS-OI
- Feed
- NWWS
- Recovered
- No
CAP routing and identity
- ULID
- 01M2KQCMEQNE0RQSKX90ZRZMBS
- Identifier
- urn:oid:2.49.0.1.840.0.215c65af986c137dc1de8789cfcc2cd8f23543f2.001.1
- Sender
- w-nws.webmaster@noaa.gov
- Scope
- Public
- CAP source
- 211803 v2.3.0
- Handling codes
- IPAWSv1.0
- Issuing office
- NWS Phoenix AZ
- AWIPS ID
- CAPPSR
- NWWS sequence
- nwws_processor.9469
- WMO heading
- XOUS55
- WMO data type
- CAP alert message XML (XO)
- WMO geography
- United States (US)
- WMO bulletin number
- 55
Event codes
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| SAME | SPS |
| NationalWeatherService | SPS |
Parameters
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| AWIPSidentifier | SPSPSR |
| WMOidentifier | WWUS85 KPSR 152345 |
| NWSheadline | A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT MARICOPA COUNTY THROUGH 515 PM MST |
| eventMotionDescription | 2026-09-15T23:45:00-00:00...storm...196DEG...14KT...33.21,-112.81 |
| maxWindGust | 50 MPH |
| maxHailSize | 0.00 |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | EAS |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | NWEM |
| EAS-ORG | WXR |
| BLOCKCHANNEL | CMAS |
Locations
Location data
- Tonopah Desert
- Buckeye/Avondale
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| SAME | 004013 |
| UGC | AZZ538 |
| UGC | AZZ540 |
- Polygons
- 33.13,-112.71 33.18,-112.92 33.43,-112.89 33.36,-112.59 33.13,-112.71