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Weather system leaves thousands of Valley residents without power, grounds flights

Jul 21, 2024, 4:23 PM | Updated: Jul 22, 2024, 11:00 am

A storm that blew in on Sunday forced a ground stop at Sky Harbor Airport. (ADOT photo)...

A storm that blew in on Sunday forced a ground stop at Sky Harbor Airport. (ADOT photo)

(ADOT photo)

PHOENIX — Parts of the Valley received a spattering of rain, dust and wind on Sunday, leaving thousands without power and flights out of Sky Harbor Airport grounded.

Storms rolled in around 3 p.m. as dust blew into the west side of metro Phoenix with 50 mph speeds.

The storms blew in as a special weather statement from the National Weather Service was active on the east side of the Valley.

 

The Federal Aviation Administration issued a ground stop at Sky Harbor shortly after at 3:26 p.m.

Over the course of the storms, thousands in metro Phoenix and its surrounding areas lost power, according to APS. Paradise Valley and Chandler were hit particularly hard by outages.

By the storm’s completion, northmost parts of Maricopa County had received over a half-inch or even a full inch of rain, while most of central Phoenix was kept down to less than a tenth of an inch.

Locations along the Agua Fria River — Sun City, El Mirage and Litchfield Park for example — all received about a quarter of an inch as the storm wound around the west end of metro Phoenix.

Past the opposite side of the Valley between Gold Canyon and Superior, Queen Valley saw a spattering of 1.1 inches after a flash flood warning from a separate system.

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Weather system leaves thousands of Valley residents without power, grounds flights