Storm History: Johnson County, Arkansas

411 episodes, 563 events since 1954

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Johnson 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: 563
Deaths: 5
Injuries: 150
Damage: $32 million
Episodes: 411

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 event	Events	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
Hail	200	0	0	$472,000
Tornado	124	4	150	$30 million
Thunderstorm Wind	116	0	0	$198,000
Flash Flood	93	1	0	$424,000
Flood	12	0	0	$500,000
Lightning	5	0	0	$250,000
Winter Storm	5	0	0
Winter Weather	3	0	0
Ice Storm	3	0	0
Heavy Rain	2	0	0

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 Johnson County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

Tornadoes in Johnson County Every warning in Johnson County since 1986 Every 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.