Arkansas

Storm History: Pike County, Arkansas

410 episodes, 546 events since 1955

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Pike 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
546
Deaths
0
Injuries
8
Damage
$13 million
Episodes
410

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
Hail18100$415,000
Tornado12008$8.3 million
Flash Flood7000$1.1 million
Thunderstorm Wind6500$115,000
Drought2400
Winter Storm2100$1.0 million
Winter Weather1200
Ice Storm1100$300,000
Heat900
Heavy Rain700
Frost/Freeze500
Strong Wind500$100,000
Wildfire500
Heavy Snow400
Excessive Heat200
Funnel Cloud100
Tropical Storm100
High Wind100$250,000
Flood100$1.3 million
Lightning100$25,000

The deadliest

None recorded.

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 Pike County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Pike CountyEvery warning in Pike 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.