Storm History: Ouachita County, Arkansas
Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Ouachita 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
- 597
- Deaths
- 1
- Injuries
- 24
- Damage
- $21 million
- Episodes
- 485
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.
Every year
By kind of event
Counted under the kind that heads each episode.
| Kind of event | Events | Deaths | Injuries | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hail | 159 | 0 | 0 | $2.8 million |
| Flood | 91 | 0 | 0 | $4.7 million |
| Tornado | 90 | 1 | 24 | $9.2 million |
| Thunderstorm Wind | 89 | 0 | 0 | $126,000 |
| Flash Flood | 66 | 0 | 0 | $3.2 million |
| Drought | 25 | 0 | 0 | |
| Winter Storm | 22 | 0 | 0 | $90,000 |
| Winter Weather | 12 | 0 | 0 | |
| Heat | 9 | 0 | 0 | |
| Ice Storm | 8 | 0 | 0 | |
| Frost/Freeze | 5 | 0 | 0 | |
| Strong Wind | 5 | 0 | 0 | $100,000 |
| Lightning | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
| Heavy Rain | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
| Heavy Snow | 3 | 0 | 0 | |
| Excessive Heat | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Wildfire | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Funnel Cloud | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| Tropical Storm | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| High Wind | 1 | 0 | 0 | $250,000 |
The deadliest
The costliest
Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.
- Flood, May 4, 2009
- Hail, April 3, 2014
- Tornado, April 8, 1979
- Tornado, December 3, 1982
- Tornado, October 29, 2009
- Flash Flood, April 27, 2016
- Tornado, September 13, 2008
- Flood, May 1, 2011
- Flood, March 18, 2008
- Flash Flood, December 23, 2009
- Tornado, September 2, 2008
- Flash Flood, August 29, 2012
- Flash Flood, October 8, 2009
- Tornado, January 7, 1978
- Tornado, December 3, 1978
- High Wind, January 29, 2008
- Flash Flood, October 13, 2009
- Flash Flood, July 29, 2011
- Flood, April 3, 2008
- Flash Flood, April 8, 2008
The largest hail
The largest stone in each episode, which may have fallen in a neighboring county of the same episode.
The strongest tornadoes
- Tornado, December 19, 1957
- Tornado, February 22, 1975
- Tornado, January 7, 1978
- Tornado, December 3, 1978
- Tornado, April 8, 1979
- Tornado, December 3, 1982
- Tornado, November 9, 1984
- Tornado, November 15, 1988
- Tornado, May 10, 2008
- Tornado, April 24, 2011
- Tornado, April 27, 1968
- Tornado, May 3, 1979
- Tornado, November 10, 1995
- Tornado, March 14, 2008
- Tornado, October 29, 2009
Every episode, newest first
- Tornado, April 25, 2026
- Hail, April 3, 2026
- Winter Storm, January 23, 2026
- Flood, June 1, 2025
- Flood, May 25, 2025
- Flood, May 9, 2025
- Flood, April 4, 2025
- Tornado, April 2, 2025
- Flood, February 12, 2025
- Flood, February 1, 2025
- Flood, January 1, 2025
- Flood, December 29, 2024
- Hail, December 28, 2024
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 29, 2024
- Hail, August 14, 2024
- Tornado, July 8, 2024
- Flood, May 26, 2024
- Hail, May 21, 2024
- Hail, April 25, 2024
- Flood, April 10, 2024
- Flood, February 12, 2024
- Flood, February 1, 2024
- Flood, January 23, 2024
- Winter Storm, January 14, 2024
- Hail, September 6, 2023
- Hail, July 14, 2023
- Tornado, June 18, 2023
- Hail, June 13, 2023
- Flood, May 11, 2023
- Hail, April 15, 2023
- Flood, April 6, 2023
- Flood, March 1, 2023
- Ice Storm, February 1, 2023
- Flood, February 1, 2023
- Flood, January 27, 2023
- Flood, January 3, 2023
- Tornado, January 2, 2023
- Hail, October 12, 2022
- Flood, June 8, 2022
- Flood, May 6, 2022
- Tornado, April 30, 2022
- Flood, April 14, 2022
- Flood, March 22, 2022
- Winter Storm, March 11, 2022
- Flood, June 8, 2021
- Tornado, June 6, 2021
- Flood, May 18, 2021
- Hail, May 6, 2021
- Flood, May 1, 2021
- Flood, April 26, 2021
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 24, 2021
- Hail, April 7, 2021
- Flood, April 1, 2021
- Flood, March 26, 2021
- Tornado, March 24, 2021
- Flood, March 1, 2021
- Flash Flood, February 28, 2021
- Flood, February 25, 2021
- Heavy Snow, February 17, 2021
- Heavy Snow, February 14, 2021
- Winter Storm, January 6, 2021
- Flood, January 1, 2021
- Flood, September 25, 2020
- Tornado, August 26, 2020
- Flash Flood, August 11, 2020
- Flash Flood, June 21, 2020
- Flood, June 1, 2020
- Flood, May 1, 2020
- Flood, April 29, 2020
- Flood, April 21, 2020
- Flood, April 13, 2020
- Hail, April 8, 2020
- Flood, April 1, 2020
- Flood, March 14, 2020
- Flood, February 9, 2020
- Flash Flood, February 9, 2020
- Winter Weather, December 10, 2019
- Flood, July 16, 2019
- Flash Flood, June 28, 2019
- Hail, June 19, 2019
- Flood, May 1, 2019
- Flood, April 8, 2019
- Flash Flood, April 7, 2019
- Flood, March 9, 2019
- Flood, March 1, 2019
- Flood, February 20, 2019
- Flood, February 12, 2019
- Flood, January 24, 2019
- Flood, January 1, 2019
- Flood, December 29, 2018
- Flood, December 10, 2018
- Winter Weather, November 14, 2018
- Flash Flood, May 15, 2018
- Flood, April 14, 2018
- Flood, April 6, 2018
- Flood, March 1, 2018
- Flood, February 21, 2018
- Flash Flood, February 20, 2018
- Winter Storm, January 15, 2018
- Drought, November 14, 2017
- Hail, November 3, 2017
- Flash Flood, May 18, 2017
- Flood, May 1, 2017
- Tornado, April 26, 2017
- Flood, April 14, 2017
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 10, 2017
- Winter Weather, January 6, 2017
- Flood, December 22, 2016
- Hail, July 14, 2016
- Flash Flood, June 12, 2016
- Flash Flood, April 27, 2016
- Flood, April 1, 2016
- Flood, March 10, 2016
- Flash Flood, March 9, 2016
- Flood, January 24, 2016
- Winter Storm, January 21, 2016
- Flood, January 1, 2016
- Flood, December 26, 2015
- Tornado, December 25, 2015
- Flood, December 1, 2015
- Flood, November 28, 2015
- Flood, July 5, 2015
- Flood, June 1, 2015
- Tornado, May 24, 2015
- Flood, May 10, 2015
- Flood, May 1, 2015
- Flood, April 26, 2015
- Flash Flood, April 24, 2015
- Flood, April 15, 2015
- Winter Storm, March 4, 2015
- Flood, March 1, 2015
- Winter Storm, February 25, 2015
- Ice Storm, February 15, 2015
- Tornado, October 2, 2014
- Flash Flood, August 17, 2014
- Flash Flood, July 23, 2014
- Frost/Freeze, April 15, 2014
- Flash Flood, April 13, 2014
- Hail, April 3, 2014
- Hail, March 28, 2014
- Winter Storm, March 2, 2014
- Thunderstorm Wind, February 20, 2014
- Winter Weather, February 11, 2014
- Winter Weather, February 7, 2014
- Flood, February 3, 2014
- Tornado, December 20, 2013
- Winter Weather, December 9, 2013
- Winter Weather, December 7, 2013
- Winter Storm, December 5, 2013
- Winter Weather, November 25, 2013
- Drought, October 1, 2013
- Heavy Rain, September 20, 2013
- Drought, September 1, 2013
- Drought, August 20, 2013
- Drought, July 16, 2013
- Flash Flood, June 1, 2013
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 26, 2013
- Strong Wind, March 24, 2013
- Ice Storm, February 20, 2013
- Winter Weather, January 15, 2013
- Winter Weather, January 14, 2013
- Winter Storm, December 25, 2012
- Strong Wind, December 20, 2012
- Hail, September 7, 2012
- Heat, September 1, 2012
- Drought, September 1, 2012
- Flash Flood, August 29, 2012
- Hail, August 5, 2012
- Heat, August 1, 2012
- Drought, August 1, 2012
- Heat, July 1, 2012
- Heat, June 25, 2012
- Drought, June 19, 2012
- Flash Flood, June 11, 2012
- Hail, April 2, 2012
- Flood, April 1, 2012
- Flood, March 21, 2012
- Thunderstorm Wind, March 8, 2012
- Winter Storm, February 13, 2012
- Tornado, January 22, 2012
- Drought, December 1, 2011
- Drought, November 1, 2011
- Drought, October 1, 2011
- Drought, September 1, 2011
- Wildfire, August 1, 2011
- Drought, August 1, 2011
- Flash Flood, July 29, 2011
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 23, 2011
- Drought, July 1, 2011
- Hail, June 4, 2011
- Drought, June 1, 2011
- Tornado, May 20, 2011
- Flood, May 1, 2011
- Flood, May 1, 2011
- Drought, May 1, 2011
- Tornado, April 24, 2011
- Flood, April 23, 2011
- Strong Wind, April 3, 2011
- Drought, April 1, 2011
- Drought, March 1, 2011
- Heavy Snow, February 9, 2011
- Winter Storm, February 4, 2011
- Winter Storm, February 1, 2011
- Drought, February 1, 2011
- Winter Storm, January 9, 2011
- Drought, January 1, 2011
- Strong Wind, December 11, 2010
- Drought, December 1, 2010
- Drought, November 1, 2010
- Tornado, October 24, 2010
- Drought, October 1, 2010
- Wildfire, September 22, 2010
- Drought, September 14, 2010
- Heat, August 19, 2010
- Flash Flood, August 15, 2010
- Heat, August 8, 2010
- Excessive Heat, August 1, 2010
- Heat, July 30, 2010
- Flash Flood, July 25, 2010
- Flash Flood, June 28, 2010
- Flash Flood, May 24, 2010
- Tornado, March 10, 2010
- Winter Weather, February 11, 2010
- Winter Storm, February 7, 2010
- Flood, January 1, 2010
- Flash Flood, December 23, 2009
- Flood, November 1, 2009
- Flood, October 30, 2009
- Tornado, October 29, 2009
- Flash Flood, October 13, 2009
- Flash Flood, October 8, 2009
- Heavy Rain, October 1, 2009
- Flash Flood, September 15, 2009
- Flood, September 13, 2009
- Hail, June 30, 2009
- Hail, June 9, 2009
- Flood, June 1, 2009
- Flash Flood, May 8, 2009
- Tornado, May 5, 2009
- Flood, May 4, 2009
- Tornado, May 1, 2009
- Frost/Freeze, April 7, 2009
- Ice Storm, January 26, 2009
- Winter Storm, December 15, 2008
- Tornado, October 6, 2008
- Tornado, September 13, 2008
- Tornado, September 2, 2008
- Flash Flood, June 28, 2008
- Tornado, May 10, 2008
- Flash Flood, April 8, 2008
Earlier years, state by state:
More
Tornadoes in Ouachita CountyEvery warning in Ouachita 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.