--- description: A violent dust storm resulted in delays at Phoenix Sky Harbor airport title: Dust Storm Grounds Flights to and from Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [U.S.](/section/us/) ## U.S. Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Aviation](/tag/aviation/) ## Aviation Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Dust Storm Grounds Arizona Flights by [Mirren Gidda](/author/mirren-gidda/) ## Mirren Gidda Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 4, 2014 12:51 PM CUT by [Mirren Gidda](/author/mirren-gidda/) ## Mirren Gidda Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 4, 2014 12:51 PM CUT Arizona’s largest airport ground to a halt Thursday night after a dust storm hit the area. Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport was forced to halt all flights between 8:00 p.m. and 8:45 p.m. local time as a result of the storm’s fierce and obscuring winds. The airport said on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/PHXSkyHarbor/status/484895336775704576 "undefined") that the delays were “due to a summer monsoon storm” and forced the diversion of 24 planes to other airports. Once the storm, which hit Phoenix at about 7:30 p.m., had abated, flights were able to resume. But the airport [warned](https://twitter.com/PHXSkyHarbor/status/484902567558656001 "undefined") that “delays are still possible.” At the storm’s peak, more than 10,000 people were without power and parts of the state were under a thunderstorm watch. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/2956568/dust-storm-arizona-flights/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/2956568/dust-storm-arizona-flights/"},"headline":"Dust Storm Grounds Arizona Flights","datePublished":"2014-07-04T12:51:05.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T08:58:46.216Z","description":"A violent dust storm resulted in delays at Phoenix Sky Harbor airport","url":"https://time.com/2956568/dust-storm-arizona-flights/","keywords":["Aviation","Flights","Arizona","Phoenix","Airport","airplanes"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Mirren Gidda","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/mirren-gidda/"}],"articleSection":"U.S.","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/us/","name":"U.S."}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/aviation/","name":"Aviation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/2956568/dust-storm-arizona-flights/","name":"Dust Storm Grounds Arizona Flights"}}]}] ```