Tornado, Poinsett
- When
- September 26, 6:20 PM CST
- Where
- Poinsett County
- Rating
- F3
- Path length
- 1.3 mi
- Path width
- 167 yd
- Injuries
- 10 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 35.600, -90.300
Tornadoes in Arkansas, September 26, 1959
2 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
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- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 14
- Property damage
- $500,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 2
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
Event by event
2 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Mississippi
- When
- September 26, 6:25 PM CST
- Where
- Mississippi County
- Rating
- F3
- Path length
- 10.2 mi
- Path width
- 167 yd
- Injuries
- 4 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 35.620, -90.280
What these are
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornadoes and Hail in Missouri, September 26, 1959
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Illinois, September 26, 1959
- Tornado in Tennessee, September 26, 1959
- Tornadoes in Wisconsin, September 26, 1959
- Tornado in Idaho, September 26, 1959
- Damaging Winds in Iowa, September 26, 1959
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Michigan, September 26, 1959
- Tornado and Damaging Wind in Indiana, September 26, 1959
- Hail in Kansas, September 26, 1959
More
Every storm in Arkansas in 1959Every state in 1959This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Arkansas, 1959
Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 9982013, 9982014.