Arkansas

Storm History: Conway County, Arkansas

489 episodes, 669 events since 1956

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Conway 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
669
Deaths
9
Injuries
58
Damage
$64 million
Episodes
489

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
Hail19301$1.9 million
Tornado161852$37 million
Flash Flood9301$1.8 million
Thunderstorm Wind8000$435,000
Winter Storm3200$2.2 million
Winter Weather2210
Flood2200$9.2 million
Drought1400
Ice Storm1200$10 million
Heat900
Heavy Snow600
Frost/Freeze500
Strong Wind500$100,000
Funnel Cloud400
Excessive Heat300
Wildfire303
Heavy Rain200
Lightning100$150,000
Tropical Storm100
High Wind101$250,000

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 Conway County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Conway CountyEvery warning in Conway 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.