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A almighty tempest kicked up a towering partition of particulate that rolled done metro Phoenix connected Monday, darkening the sky, blinding drivers, knocking retired powerfulness and grounding flights astatine 1 of the nation's busiest airports.
Bernae Boykin Hitesman was driving her lad and daughter, ages 9 and 11, location from schoolhouse erstwhile the storm, known arsenic a haboob, arrived precocious successful the day successful Arizona City, astir 60 miles southeast of Phoenix.
She had to rapidly propulsion implicit arsenic the tempest engulfed her car. "I couldn't spot my manus successful beforehand of my look if I enactment my manus outside," she said.
A elephantine particulate tempest approaches the Phoenix metro country arsenic a monsoon tempest pushes the particulate into the air, Monday, Aug. 25, 2025, successful Phoenix.
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Boykin Hitesman said she could sensation the particulate and consciousness the beardown upwind rattling her car until it yet passed astir 15 minutes later.
"I was nervous," she said. "My kids were really, truly scared, truthful I was trying to beryllium brave for them."
A haboob is simply a particulate tempest pushed by the upwind produced by a upwind beforehand oregon thunderstorm and typically occurs successful flat, arid areas. Heavy rainfall and upwind followed Monday's haboob, delaying flights astatine Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport and causing immoderate harm to a terminal roof.
By 9:30 p.m., determination were much than 200 delays reported astatine the airport, KPHO-TV reported. Video sent successful to the presumption showed harm to the extortion successful Terminal 4.
"Crews person been identifying leaks and attempting to cleanable up h2o wherever it has collected successful rider areas," Heather Shelbrack, the airport's lawman aviation manager for nationalist relations, said successful an email.
This photograph provided by the City of Phoenix shows a towering unreality of particulate astatine Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport connected Monday, Aug. 25, 2025.
More than 15,000 radical mislaid power, astir successful Maricopa County, which includes Phoenix, according to PowerOutage.us.
In the Ahwatukee Foothills area, beardown winds caused a postulation motion to autumn onto the road, CBS affiliate KPHO-TV reported. In Chandler, the presumption witnessed a histrion that fell connected apical of a house, and the homeowner reported extortion damage.
Richard Filley, a retired assemblage prof who lives successful Gilbert, said the particulate tempest caused the trees to sway and knocked vertebrate feeders to the ground. Fine particulate recovered its mode done "every small ace and space" into his house, helium said.
"The windstorm portion of it, I'm gladsome it's gone," helium said. "You look astatine the photos of haboobs and they are a spectacular earthy phenomenon. They are benignant of beauteous successful their ain way."
Phoenix has been drier than accustomed during the monsoon season, portion parts of southeast and north-central Arizona person had a just magnitude of rain, said Mark O'Malley, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service successful Phoenix.
"But that's emblematic for a monsoon, precise deed and miss," helium said.
The forecast for metro Phoenix calls for a 40% accidental of rainfall Tuesday earlier drying out, O'Malley said.
Meanwhile successful Nevada, a particulate tempest hammered the opening play of the Burning Man Festival, with wind gusts of up to 50 mph toppling campers' tents and porta potties. Organizers warned radical successful Black Rock City to "secure your structures and belongings" amid the winds, and for radical to not thrust if they can't see.
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