Arkansas

Storm History: Clay County, Arkansas

404 episodes, 572 events since 1957

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Clay 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
572
Deaths
5
Injuries
3
Damage
$30 million
Episodes
404

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
Hail11900$1.3 million
Tornado11021$18 million
Excessive Heat7400
Thunderstorm Wind5500$1.1 million
Flash Flood5000$2.6 million
Heat3900
Winter Storm3000$102,000
Drought3000
Winter Weather2000
Flood810$2.9 million
Ice Storm810$3.5 million
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill800$250,000
Heavy Snow700$2,000
Cold/Wind Chill300
Lightning210$10,000
Frost/Freeze200
High Wind200$35,000
Strong Wind200$50,000
Tropical Storm102$124,000
Blizzard100
Dust Storm100

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 Clay County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Clay CountyEvery warning in Clay 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.