Arkansas

Storms in Arkansas in 2013

1,341 events in 196 episodes

Every storm the National Weather Service filed in Arkansas in 2013, 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 2013 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
1,341
Deaths
12
Injuries
499
Damage
$72 million
Episodes
196

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 Wind33401$1.1 million
Winter Weather25111
Drought14400
Hail14109$2.1 million
Flash Flood12201$11 million
Flood6500$242,000
Winter Storm6011$26 million
Strong Wind4500$1.2 million
Tornado41929$28 million
Heavy Rain3000
Ice Storm2800$2.9 million
Frost/Freeze2500
Lightning2300$100,000
Funnel Cloud1200
Wildfire700
Heavy Snow500
Excessive Heat400
Freezing Fog217$65,000
Heat10450
Dense Fog100

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.