Arkansas

Storms in Arkansas in 1952

29 events in 9 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in Arkansas in 1952, with each episode’s narrative and every event in it. Before 1955 the record holds tornadoes only.

Arkansas in 1952 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 Arkansas

The year

Events
29
Deaths
112
Injuries
731
Damage
$7.2 million
Episodes
9

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
Tornado29112731$7.2 million

Every episode, month by month

January 1952

February 1952

March 1952

April 1952

June 1952

July 1952

November 1952

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Every year in ArkansasEvery state in 1952Tornadoes in Arkansas in 195219511953

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.