Tornado, Craighead
- When
- August 16, 7:30 PM CST
- Where
- Craighead County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 6.1 mi
- Path width
- 20 yd
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Coordinates
- 35.900, -90.820
Tornadoes and Hail in Arkansas, August 16, 1978
2 tornado, 2 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
- 0
- Property damage
- $3,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 4
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
2 tornado, 2 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Craighead
- When
- August 16, 8:15 PM CST
- Where
- Craighead County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 35.830, -90.470
Tornado, Craighead
- When
- August 16, 8:45 PM CST
- Where
- Craighead County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 27 yd
- Coordinates
- 35.750, -90.570
Hail, Chicot
- When
- August 16, 8:45 PM CST
- Where
- Chicot County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 35.780, -90.600
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
- Tornadoes and Damaging Wind in Michigan, August 16, 1978
- Tornado in Oregon, August 16, 1978
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Kansas, August 16, 1978
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Tennessee, August 16, 1978
- Hail in Iowa, August 16, 1978
- Damaging Wind in Indiana, August 16, 1978
- Damaging Wind in Nebraska, August 16, 1978
More
Every storm in Arkansas in 1978Every state in 1978This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Arkansas, 1978
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: 9981276, 9981277, 9981278, 9981279.