Arkansas

Storm History: Lincoln County, Arkansas

273 episodes, 336 events since 1957

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Lincoln 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
336
Deaths
5
Injuries
24
Damage
$9.4 million
Episodes
273

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
Tornado93524$5.3 million
Hail8900$294,000
Thunderstorm Wind3200$56,000
Flash Flood3200$1.4 million
Winter Storm2300$75,000
Drought1500
Winter Weather1400
Heat900
Ice Storm800$125,000
Strong Wind500$100,000
Frost/Freeze300
Excessive Heat300
Heavy Snow300
Heavy Rain200
High Wind200$250,000
Flood200$1.8 million
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 Lincoln County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Lincoln CountyEvery warning in Lincoln 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.