Arkansas

Storm History: Cleburne County, Arkansas

393 episodes, 482 events since 1955

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Cleburne 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
482
Deaths
6
Injuries
51
Damage
$106 million
Episodes
393

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
Hail13100$396,000
Tornado99436$68 million
Thunderstorm Wind7900$141,000
Flash Flood5800$6.8 million
Winter Storm3312$2.1 million
Winter Weather1800$20,000
Drought1400
Ice Storm1200$25 million
Heavy Snow800
Heat800
Frost/Freeze600
Strong Wind500$105,000
Flood400$2.3 million
Lightning2113
Funnel Cloud200
Tropical Storm100
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 Cleburne County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Cleburne CountyEvery warning in Cleburne 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.