Arkansas

Storms in Arkansas in 1997

742 events in 516 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in Arkansas in 1997, with each episode’s narrative and every event in it. From 1996 the record holds 48 kinds of event with each office’s narrative; before that, tornadoes, hail and thunderstorm wind only, and before 1955 tornadoes alone.

Arkansas in 1997 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
742
Deaths
31
Injuries
456
Damage
$286 million
Episodes
516

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 Wind315012$4.5 million
Hail19810$152,000
Flash Flood5310$11 million
Tornado4726429$268 million
Heavy Snow4400
Winter Storm4100$40
Ice Storm1500
Lightning9315$165,000
Flood900$1.8 million
High Wind900$8,000
Funnel Cloud200

Every episode, month by month

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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.