Arkansas

Storm History: Bradley County, Arkansas

308 episodes, 365 events since 1954

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Bradley 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
365
Deaths
10
Injuries
60
Damage
$36 million
Episodes
308

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
Hail10700$642,000
Thunderstorm Wind5600$81,000
Tornado54759$32 million
Flash Flood4811$2.0 million
Drought2300
Winter Storm1800$65,000
Winter Weather1200
Heat1010
Flood810$1.2 million
Ice Storm600
Wildfire600
Strong Wind500$170,000
Frost/Freeze300
Heavy Snow300
Tropical Storm200
Heavy Rain200
High Wind100$250,000
Excessive Heat100

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 Bradley County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Bradley CountyEvery warning in Bradley 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.