Hail, Yell
- When
- April 12, 12:05 AM CST
- Where
- Yell County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 35.080, -93.280
Tornado and Hail in Arkansas, April 12, 1966
7 hail, 1 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
- 2
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 8
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
7 hail, 1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail,
- When
- April 12, 5:02 PM CST
- Where
- County
- Measured
- 1.5 in hail
- Coordinates
- 35.200, -94.000
Hail, Cleburne
- When
- April 12, 8:00 PM CST
- Where
- Cleburne County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 35.580, -91.780
Tornado, Grant
- When
- April 12, 9:00 PM CST
- Where
- Grant County
- Rating
- F3
- Path length
- 4.5 mi
- Path width
- 33 yd
- Injuries
- 2 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 34.400, -92.400
Hail, Saline
- When
- April 12, 9:00 PM CST
- Where
- Saline County
- Measured
- 2 in hail
- Coordinates
- 34.500, -92.580
Hail, Saline
- When
- April 12, 9:00 PM CST
- Where
- Saline County
- Measured
- 3.5 in hail
- Coordinates
- 34.500, -92.280
Hail, Jefferson
- When
- April 12, 9:45 PM CST
- Where
- Jefferson County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 34.280, -91.900
Hail, Jefferson
- When
- April 12, 10:00 PM CST
- Where
- Jefferson County
- Measured
- 0.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 34.200, -91.900
What these are
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
- 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
More
Every storm in Arkansas in 1966Every state in 1966This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Arkansas, 1966
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: 9984330, 9984331, 9984332, 9984333, 9984334, 9984335, 9984336, 9984337.