Arkansas

Storm History: Boone County, Arkansas

338 episodes, 481 events since 1959

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Boone County, Arkansas: floods, hail, damaging wind, tornadoes, winter storms, heat and the rest, with the most serious on record. Events filed by forecast zone count for every county the zone covers.

The record

Events
481
Deaths
2
Injuries
71
Damage
$19 million
Episodes
338

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.

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Every year

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.

By kind of event

Counted under the kind that heads each episode.

Kind of eventEventsDeathsInjuriesDamage
Hail18500$202,000
Tornado103269$13 million
Thunderstorm Wind8900$251,000
Flash Flood8401$1.1 million
Winter Weather500
Winter Storm400
Ice Storm400
Heavy Rain300
Waterspout100
Lightning101
Funnel Cloud100
Flood100$4.3 million

The deadliest

The costliest

Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.

The largest hail

The largest stone in each episode, which may have fallen in a neighboring county of the same episode.

The strongest tornadoes

Every tornado in Boone County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Boone CountyEvery warning in Boone County since 1986Every county in Arkansas

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.