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The terms are often used interchangeably, but not all dust storms qualify as haboobs — it’s the wall or cloud of dust you see that typically qualifies the event as a haboob. A 1972 article published by the American Meteorological Society stated that about 50% of dust storms in the Phoenix area qualify as haboobs.