Tornado, Tippah
- When
- September 29, 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Tippah County
- Rating
- F3
- Path length
- 14.6 mi
- Path width
- 880 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 34.720, -88.970
Tornadoes in Mississippi, September 29, 1972
4 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
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
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 4
- Property damage
- $750,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 4
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
4 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Prentiss
- When
- September 29, 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Prentiss County
- Rating
- F3
- Path length
- 5.1 mi
- Path width
- 880 yd
- Injuries
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 34.670, -88.720
Tornado, Prentiss
- When
- September 29, 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Prentiss County
- Rating
- F3
- Path length
- 17.1 mi
- Path width
- 880 yd
- Coordinates
- 34.650, -88.630
Tornado, Tishomingo
- When
- September 29, 6:00 PM CST
- Where
- Tishomingo County
- Rating
- F3
- Path length
- 8.7 mi
- Path width
- 880 yd
- Injuries
- 3 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 34.650, -88.330
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
- Tornado in Kentucky, September 29, 1972
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Texas, September 29, 1972
- Tornado in Virginia, September 29, 1972
- Tornado in West Virginia, September 29, 1972
- Hail in Missouri, September 29, 1972
- Damaging Wind in Arkansas, September 29, 1972
- Damaging Wind in North Carolina, September 29, 1972
More
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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: 10048412, 10048413, 10048414, 10048415.