Wyoming

Storms in Wyoming in 1972

18 events in 13 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in Wyoming in 1972, 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.

Wyoming in 1972 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 Wyoming

The year

Events
18
Deaths
0
Injuries
0
Damage
$250
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 Wind1100
Tornado400$250
Hail300

Every episode, month by month

May 1972

June 1972

July 1972

August 1972

September 1972

More

Every year in WyomingEvery state in 1972Tornadoes in Wyoming in 197219711973

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.