Tornado, Williamson
- When
- April 21, 3:15 PM CST
- Where
- Williamson County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 1.5 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Injuries
- 3 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 35.930, -86.870
Tornadoes and Hail in Tennessee, April 21, 1972
5 tornado, 1 hail, 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
- 14
- Property damage
- $503,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 6
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
5 tornado, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Shelby
- When
- April 21, 6:25 PM CST
- Where
- Shelby County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 0.3 mi
- Path width
- 20 yd
- Coordinates
- 35.120, -89.720
Tornado, Weakley
- When
- April 21, 6:30 PM CST
- Where
- Weakley County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 1.3 mi
- Path width
- 7 yd
- Injuries
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 36.500, -88.730
Tornado, Lawrence
- When
- April 21, 8:05 PM CST
- Where
- Lawrence County
- Rating
- F3
- Path length
- 20.6 mi
- Path width
- 200 yd
- Injuries
- 6 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 35.130, -87.530
Hail, Houston
- When
- April 21, 8:20 PM CST
- Where
- Houston County
- Measured
- 1 in hail
- Coordinates
- 36.280, -87.780
Tornado, Giles
- When
- April 21, 8:45 PM CST
- Where
- Giles County
- Rating
- F3
- Path length
- 11.7 mi
- Path width
- 200 yd
- Injuries
- 4 direct, 0 indirect
- Coordinates
- 35.280, -87.220
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.
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
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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: 10125376, 10125377, 10125378, 10125379, 10125380, 10125381.