Arkansas

Storm History: Chicot County, Arkansas

348 episodes, 555 events since 1955

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Chicot 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
555
Deaths
2
Injuries
49
Damage
$62 million
Episodes
348

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.

Open the live radar over Chicot County

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
Hail15102$3.0 million
Tornado130147$32 million
Thunderstorm Wind10710$2.6 million
Flash Flood10400$7.4 million
Drought1300$5.7 million
Flood900$2.4 million
Ice Storm800$1.4 million
Heavy Snow700$605,000
Winter Storm600$240,000
Winter Weather400$5,000
Heat300
Strong Wind300$240,000
Hurricane (Typhoon)200$5.8 million
Funnel Cloud200
Tropical Depression200$51,000
Cold/Wind Chill100$300,000
Excessive Heat100
Sleet100
Tropical Storm100$45,000

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 Chicot County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Chicot CountyEvery warning in Chicot 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.