Arkansas

Storm History: Carroll County, Arkansas

365 episodes, 514 events since 1955

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Carroll 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
514
Deaths
5
Injuries
67
Damage
$21 million
Episodes
365

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
Hail179046$285,000
Tornado104221$1.5 million
Thunderstorm Wind6900$209,000
Flash Flood5620$983,000
Drought3800
Winter Storm3100$75,000
Heavy Snow1200$5,000
Ice Storm900$18 million
Flood300$1,000
Heat310
High Wind200
Lightning200$90,000
Excessive Heat200
Wildfire200$25,000
Winter Weather100
Frost/Freeze100

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 Carroll County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Carroll CountyEvery warning in Carroll 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.