Arkansas

Storm History: Phillips County, Arkansas

306 episodes, 409 events since 1954

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Phillips 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
409
Deaths
1
Injuries
9
Damage
$9.5 million
Episodes
306

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
Excessive Heat9100
Tornado6407$6.9 million
Hail5412$1.1 million
Heat4900
Drought4000
Thunderstorm Wind3600$188,000
Winter Storm2200$107,000
Flash Flood1800$953,000
Flood900$241,000
Extreme Cold/Wind Chill600
Ice Storm500$1,000
Winter Weather500
Heavy Snow300
Cold/Wind Chill300
High Wind200$15,000
Tropical Storm100$10,000
Blizzard100

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 Phillips County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Phillips CountyEvery warning in Phillips 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.