Arizona

Storms in Arizona in 1969

17 events in 13 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in Arizona in 1969, with each episode’s narrative and every event in it. Before 1996 the record holds tornadoes, hail and thunderstorm wind only, without narratives; floods, heat, winter storms and the other kinds begin in 1996.

Arizona in 1969 on the map

Every episode with a place to put it, colored by kind of event.

  • Tornadoes
  • Tropical storms and surge
  • Floods
  • Wind
  • Hail
  • Winter weather
  • Heat and drought
  • Cold
  • Fire, smoke and dust
  • Marine and coastal
  • Other

Open the live radar over Arizona

The year

Events
17
Deaths
0
Injuries
2
Damage
$275,000
Episodes
13

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.

By kind of event

Kind of eventEventsDeathsInjuriesDamage
Thunderstorm Wind1300
Tornado402$275,000

Every episode, month by month

February 1969

May 1969

July 1969

August 1969

September 1969

More

Every year in ArizonaEvery state in 1969Tornadoes in Arizona in 196919681970

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.