Arkansas

Storm History: Lonoke County, Arkansas

611 episodes, 976 events since 1951

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Lonoke 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
976
Deaths
26
Injuries
132
Damage
$163 million
Episodes
611

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
Tornado30820119$130 million
Hail29607$13 million
Flash Flood12404$6.5 million
Thunderstorm Wind12202$44,000
Winter Storm2800$3.3 million
Drought1800
Winter Weather1800$50,000
Ice Storm1420$295,000
Heat1010
Heavy Snow600
Frost/Freeze600
Strong Wind600$151,000
Excessive Heat410
Lightning300$1,000
High Wind310$250,000
Heavy Rain300
Flood310$9.0 million
Funnel Cloud200
Tropical Storm100
Wildfire100

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 Lonoke County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Lonoke CountyEvery warning in Lonoke 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.