Arizona, 1972Tornado and Hail in Arizona, August 8, 1972
August 8, 1972 · 2 events in 2 counties and zones
1 hail, 1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
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- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $30
- 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.
Hail, Coconino
- When
- August 8, 1:00 PM CST
- Where
- Coconino County
- Measured
- 1.5 in hail
- Coordinates
- 34.500, -111.300
Tornado, Mohave
- When
- August 8, 4:00 PM CST
- Where
- Mohave County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 2.3 mi
- Path width
- 300 yd
- Property damage
- $30
- Coordinates
- 35.320, -113.920
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
- 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.
- Tornadoes and Damaging Wind in Texas, August 8, 1972$50,000 · F1 · 4 events
- Tornado in South Carolina, August 8, 1972$25,000 · F0 · 1 event
- Hail in Arkansas, August 8, 19721.75 in hail · 2 events
- Damaging Wind in Kansas, August 8, 19721 event
- Damaging Wind in New Mexico, August 8, 197255 kt wind · 1 event
- Damaging Wind in California, August 8, 197250 kt wind · 1 event
- Damaging Wind in Colorado, August 8, 197253 kt wind · 1 event
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: 9981784, 9981785.