Arkansas

Storm History: Cross County, Arkansas

328 episodes, 427 events since 1952

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Cross 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
427
Deaths
11
Injuries
65
Damage
$166 million
Episodes
328

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
Excessive Heat8700
Tornado78953$163 million
Hail6206$197,000
Heat4405
Thunderstorm Wind3711$421,000
Winter Storm3100$1.0 million
Drought2500
Flash Flood2100$319,000
Winter Weather1000
Ice Storm800$25,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill800$250,000
Heavy Snow500$1,000
Flood310$225,000
Cold/Wind Chill300
Frost/Freeze200
High Wind100$5,000
Blizzard100
Strong Wind100$4,000

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 Cross County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Cross CountyEvery warning in Cross 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.