Arkansas

Storms in Arkansas in 1954

33 events in 16 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in Arkansas in 1954, with each episode’s narrative and every event in it. Before 1955 the record holds tornadoes only.

Arkansas in 1954 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
33
Deaths
1
Injuries
38
Damage
$2.2 million
Episodes
16

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
Tornado33138$2.2 million

Every episode, month by month

February 1954

March 1954

April 1954

May 1954

June 1954

July 1954

August 1954

More

Every year in ArkansasEvery state in 1954Tornadoes in Arkansas in 195419531955

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.