Tornado warnings issued in Arizona amid severe storms

Welcome on in and we begin with a severe weather alert. This is a live look in Flagstaff where we have been tracking tornado warnings all morning long in portions of northern Arizona. Now we're seeing a big cell starting to move close to the Flagstaff area. Yeah, the National Weather Service issued some warnings for portions of Coconino and Yavapai counties. Crystal, we just got off the phone here with the chief in the Parks Ponderosa Fire Department. He said the storm moving towards Flagstaff three to five miles or so and so they're expecting to see maybe some activity there. Yeah this is another large thunderstorm that is severe in nature meaning it's damaging. Let's go right to the maps and you can see that golden box is the severe thunderstorm warning. We brought this to you about what 15 minutes ago. It still is in effect for another 15 minutes and it still has very heavy rain. I'm going to pause the radar loop the next time. There we go. The pinks that you see are the heaviest areas of rain that are sitting directly to the southwest of Flagstaff. A lot of lightning with this as well as it is trekking farther to the northeast. This thing is cooking as well. It's moving very fast. So this is going to be hitting and impacting especially the western half of Flagstaff and then slamming into the San Francisco peaks. As mentioned, the severe thunderstorm warning is in place until 9 15 this morning. Take a look at this. So this is the velocity product yet again. There is rotation in this storm. Now the National Weather Service has not issued a tornado warning at this point, but there is at least a large area of some powerful winds that are coming out of this storm. So some damaging winds possible. And finally, part of the concern of why they issued this warning was large hail that is tracking right towards Flagstaff and should likely be there. I'd say fairly quickly. In fact, let me put a little tracker on the latest on this hail line. And you can see that, you know, our tracker is not working right now for some reason. Let me see if I can get it to work again. I'm going to put a quick tracker on this and see what the timing for Flagstaff would be. There you go. Flagstaff Ranch Golf Club area within the next 15 minutes or so, guys. So we'll talk more about this storm. And if there are new alerts, we'll come right back with them. The storm, it has been impacting. Of course, we saw it here in town, but this is up in Yavapai County. This is pouring down northwest of Prescott, about 13 miles from Chino Valley, and it's called the Las Vegas Ranch. So Steve Pierce, one of our viewers, sending this video over, and you can see they have been getting rain on and off, lots and lots of thunder. And that rain will continue for quite some time here. So a big thank you to Steve Pierce for sharing the video. was not just up north right here in the valley we saw some thunderstorms as well and maybe you got some hail yeah this was all happening last night this is what it looked like in Mesa, take a look and listen to that hail coming down yeah you can really hear it hitting the roof there the city getting pelted this is in Mesa again near Mesa Drive and University, Linda Carrera sending us this video and you can just hear how long it was uh coming down over there we also unfortunately seeing some damage in that area as well. Daniel Miller has been surveying that for us and she joins us live. We can hear those chainsaws in the background. They are cleaning up. Yeah, busy day here specifically in this apartment complex. So this is right near University and Gilbert right here in Mesa and you can see crews are out here doing the best they can really to clean up quite the mess. You can see all of the damage left behind some massive trees in this complex here, just completely knocked over branches, just littering the roadway here. Take a look at this awning right here. You're seeing some of those branches fell on top of here, crushing cars. You can see all of the broken windows, the front end completely smashed in, another window smashed in right here because of all of those very heavy branches that have fallen on top of these cars. So this is pretty much what it looks like throughout this entire neighborhood hood here we even have a few of these massive branches landing on top of roofs here uh some of the the people living in this complex were telling us they didn't want to go on camera but they were just telling us it really was just quite the mess out here very scary moments last night when the storm rolled through they said it was loud the apartment was shaking the windows were shaking so very scary moments as well so well there goes those chainsaws again very busy day guys uh here Gilbert and University in Mesa. They have a very busy day ahead of them here for cleanup. We'll send it back to you. Wow. Look at that mess. My goodness. And our hearts go out to those people that had the trees fall on their vehicles. Goodness gracious. Daniel, thank you.