Watch: Arizona backyard pummeled by straight-line winds as microburst tears through Tempe

TEMPE, Ariz. – A dramatic video shared from Tempe shows the moment when straight-line winds tore through a backyard as a microburst pummeled the Arizona city early this week.

According to the National Weather Service office in Phoenix, straight-line winds during the powerful supercell thunderstorm reached between 80 and 90 mph – as strong as a Category 1 hurricane – when the storm wreaked havoc in Maricopa County across portions of Guadalupe, Tempe and Scottsdale on Monday afternoon…

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