Arkansas

Storm History: Prairie County, Arkansas

414 episodes, 503 events since 1950

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Prairie 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
503
Deaths
8
Injuries
51
Damage
$90 million
Episodes
414

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
Hail10801$311,000
Tornado100640$40 million
Flash Flood7308$3.8 million
Thunderstorm Wind6901$391,000
Flood5310$44 million
Winter Storm2900$1.1 million
Winter Weather1611
Drought1400
Ice Storm1100$260,000
Heat900
Heavy Snow600
Strong Wind500$105,000
High Wind200$250,000
Frost/Freeze200
Heavy Rain200
Excessive Heat200
Lightning100$30,000
Tropical Storm100

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 Prairie County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Prairie CountyEvery warning in Prairie 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.