The Storm Prediction Center and multiple National Weather Service offices issued a string of severe thunderstorm watches and warnings across the United States, including watches for parts of Georgia and South Carolina until 9 PM EDT and a broad watch covering Phoenix, Tucson, Prescott, Payson and Casa Grande until 10 PM. Local NWS warnings included a Severe Thunderstorm Warning for Southeast Pinal and West Pima, Arizona from 8:47 PM to 9:32 PM and a Tucson-area warning until 9:15 PM MST, a Marquette, Michigan warning from 4:53 PM to 5:45 PM EDT on July 12, and a Jackson, Mississippi warning July 12 from 8:35 PM to 9:15 PM CDT listing 60 mph wind gusts. Radar-indicated gusts of 60 mph were reported in Kentucky and Montana warnings, and National Weather Service Salt Lake City reported observed gusts to 70 mph for Iron and Washington counties, Utah, with one SPC watch noting isolated gusts up to 75 mph possible. Warnings cited threats to roofs, siding and trees and prompted a Special Marine Warning off Wilmington, North Carolina and a ground stop at Atlanta airport. The watches and warnings were tied to a hot, unstable air mass ahead of a slow-moving front that forecasters said would fuel additional strong to potentially severe storms into the evening. Multiple NWS offices continued issuing, updating, canceling and expiring warnings as storms moved across states, keeping travel and outdoor plans at risk through the night.