Arkansas

Storm History: Garland County, Arkansas

663 episodes, 954 events since 1955

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Garland 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
954
Deaths
7
Injuries
70
Damage
$73 million
Episodes
663

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
Hail27813$3.5 million
Tornado232360$47 million
Thunderstorm Wind15603$546,000
Flash Flood14604$4.0 million
Winter Storm3000$12 million
Drought2000
Winter Weather1900
Ice Storm1400$895,000
Heat900
Frost/Freeze800
Heavy Snow600
Lightning610$110,000
Strong Wind610$185,000
Wildfire600
Heavy Rain500
High Wind400$250,000
Excessive Heat310
Flood300$4.3 million
Funnel Cloud200
Tropical Storm100

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 Garland County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Garland CountyEvery warning in Garland 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.