Arkansas

Storm History: Newton County, Arkansas

264 episodes, 380 events since 1961

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Newton 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
380
Deaths
2
Injuries
4
Damage
$12 million
Episodes
264

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.

Open the live radar over Newton County

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
Hail13600$204,000
Tornado9713$5.3 million
Thunderstorm Wind6200$13,000
Flash Flood6000$721,000
Winter Storm800
Ice Storm700
Winter Weather600
Flood300$5.5 million
Lightning111

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 Newton County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Newton CountyEvery warning in Newton 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.