Narrative:

I was working sector 42 on the radar position we had a large amount of weather along the boundary with los angeles center. We were showing weather extending from the vicinity of the pke VORTAC all the way down to well into mexico. We had numerous deviations on aircraft climb out of and descending into phx. Most of the aircraft were requesting to deviate north to around pke or north of it. The northwest area was requesting release of the gladden and baghdad areas for military training. I told the supervisor that I thought it was a bad idea because of the deviations. He decided to release the southern part of gladden FL190 and below and the northern part FL330 and below and baghdad was going active FL280 and below. We had a flight that was originally an altitude reservation of 1 aircraft X and 5 aircraft Y's going direct pke for the weather. The aircraft request to deviate north for weather. I approved the deviation because aircraft had not been going as far north as baghdad and the part of gladden that was active that he was crossing was only FL190 and below. The formation flight was in an altitude block of 240b260. The flight was getting much farther north than I had expected and he was getting close to baghdad. I told him I needed him to turn left to a heading of 270 to avoid military airspace. He said he was unable to turn because of weather; but that he could climb. I had other traffic that made it unsafe for him to climb. We called the sector working the baghdad area and told them of the situation and they later deactivated the airspace. But not before the flight clipped the southwestern corner of it. We should not be releasing airspace for military operations whenever we have massive weather deviations in the vicinity of the airspace.

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Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: Controllers report of bad weather and aircraft deviations causing an airspace violation.

Narrative: I was working Sector 42 on the radar position we had a large amount of weather along the boundary with Los Angeles Center. We were showing weather extending from the vicinity of the PKE VORTAC all the way down to well into Mexico. We had numerous deviations on aircraft climb out of and descending into PHX. Most of the aircraft were requesting to deviate north to around PKE or north of it. The Northwest area was requesting release of the Gladden and Baghdad areas for military training. I told the Supervisor that I thought it was a bad idea because of the deviations. He decided to release the southern part of Gladden FL190 and below and the northern part FL330 and below and Baghdad was going active FL280 and below. We had a flight that was originally an Altitude Reservation of 1 Aircraft X and 5 Aircraft Y's going direct PKE for the weather. The aircraft request to deviate north for weather. I approved the deviation because aircraft had not been going as far north as Baghdad and the part of Gladden that was active that he was crossing was only FL190 and below. The formation flight was in an altitude block of 240B260. The flight was getting much farther north than I had expected and he was getting close to Baghdad. I told him I needed him to turn left to a heading of 270 to avoid military airspace. He said he was unable to turn because of weather; but that he could climb. I had other traffic that made it unsafe for him to climb. We called the sector working the Baghdad area and told them of the situation and they later deactivated the airspace. But not before the flight clipped the southwestern corner of it. We should not be releasing airspace for military operations whenever we have massive weather deviations in the vicinity of the airspace.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.