Arkansas

Storm History: Fulton County, Arkansas

352 episodes, 433 events since 1956

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Fulton 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
433
Deaths
5
Injuries
32
Damage
$64 million
Episodes
352

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
Hail9404$972,000
Thunderstorm Wind8000$335,000
Tornado77428$5.4 million
Flash Flood5310$1.0 million
Winter Storm3900$1.2 million
Winter Weather2600$70,000
Heavy Snow1000
Ice Storm900$50 million
Drought900
Frost/Freeze900
Heat700
Flood500$4.8 million
Strong Wind500$105,000
Heavy Rain500
Wildfire200
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 Fulton County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Fulton CountyEvery warning in Fulton 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.