Arkansas

Storm History: Lafayette County, Arkansas

444 episodes, 599 events since 1956

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Lafayette 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
599
Deaths
1
Injuries
7
Damage
$58 million
Episodes
444

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
Hail16702$617,000
Tornado12101$2.4 million
Thunderstorm Wind9403$299,000
Heat5600
Flash Flood4601$865,000
Drought4100
Excessive Heat2100
Winter Weather2000
Winter Storm1300
Cold/Wind Chill700$100,000
Ice Storm400$40 million
Flood310$14 million
Heavy Snow200
Wildfire200$10,000
Funnel Cloud100
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 Lafayette County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Lafayette CountyEvery warning in Lafayette 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.