Arkansas

Storm History: Crittenden County, Arkansas

406 episodes, 550 events since 1960

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Crittenden 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
550
Deaths
8
Injuries
138
Damage
$46 million
Episodes
406

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
Hail11807$836,000
Tornado1086126$42 million
Excessive Heat8500
Thunderstorm Wind5402$313,000
Heat4210
Flash Flood3600$628,000
Winter Storm2913$103,000
Drought2600
Winter Weather1200
Ice Storm900$1,000
Flood800$1.6 million
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill700
Heavy Snow400$1,000
High Wind300$20,000
Strong Wind300$42,000
Cold/Wind Chill300
Frost/Freeze200
Blizzard100

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 Crittenden County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Crittenden CountyEvery warning in Crittenden 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.