Storm History: Prairie County, Arkansas
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.
Every year
By kind of event
Counted under the kind that heads each episode.
| Kind of event | Events | Deaths | Injuries | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hail | 108 | 0 | 1 | $311,000 |
| Tornado | 100 | 6 | 40 | $40 million |
| Flash Flood | 73 | 0 | 8 | $3.8 million |
| Thunderstorm Wind | 69 | 0 | 1 | $391,000 |
| Flood | 53 | 1 | 0 | $44 million |
| Winter Storm | 29 | 0 | 0 | $1.1 million |
| Winter Weather | 16 | 1 | 1 | |
| Drought | 14 | 0 | 0 | |
| Ice Storm | 11 | 0 | 0 | $260,000 |
| Heat | 9 | 0 | 0 | |
| Heavy Snow | 6 | 0 | 0 | |
| Strong Wind | 5 | 0 | 0 | $105,000 |
| High Wind | 2 | 0 | 0 | $250,000 |
| Frost/Freeze | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Heavy Rain | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Excessive Heat | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Lightning | 1 | 0 | 0 | $30,000 |
| Tropical Storm | 1 | 0 | 0 |
The deadliest
The costliest
Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.
- Tornado, November 15, 1988
- Flood, May 1, 2011
- Tornado, October 18, 2004
- Flood, March 18, 2008
- Flood, November 1, 2009
- Flood, May 1, 2017
- Flood, July 1, 2014
- Flash Flood, December 23, 2009
- Flash Flood, July 22, 2008
- Winter Storm, December 25, 2012
- Flash Flood, August 29, 2012
- Tornado, September 13, 2008
- Tornado, May 1, 2011
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 30, 2012
- Flash Flood, June 28, 2014
- Tornado, March 21, 1952
- Tornado, March 26, 1950
- Tornado, April 17, 1978
- Tornado, April 2, 1982
- Tornado, April 23, 1985
The largest hail
The largest stone in each episode, which may have fallen in a neighboring county of the same episode.
- Hail, June 19, 2019
- Hail, April 9, 1991
- Hail, May 21, 2024
- Hail, April 8, 2020
- Hail, April 3, 2018
- Hail, September 7, 2012
- Hail, June 30, 2009
- Hail, May 8, 1989
- Hail, April 7, 1986
- Flash Flood, April 19, 2011
- Flash Flood, May 13, 2022
- Hail, March 26, 2000
- Hail, June 5, 1995
- Hail, March 23, 1975
- Hail, April 10, 1995
The strongest tornadoes
- Tornado, March 21, 1952
- Tornado, April 2, 1982
- Tornado, February 5, 2008
- Tornado, March 26, 1950
- Tornado, February 22, 1975
- Tornado, April 23, 1985
- Tornado, November 15, 1988
- Tornado, May 2, 2008
- Tornado, May 10, 2008
- Tornado, April 8, 2009
- Tornado, April 24, 2011
- Tornado, March 31, 2023
- Tornado, February 20, 1951
- Tornado, April 17, 1978
- Tornado, July 2, 1994
Every episode, newest first
- Hail, February 26, 2026
- Winter Storm, January 23, 2026
- Tornado, June 12, 2025
- Flash Flood, June 7, 2025
- Flood, June 1, 2025
- Flood, May 25, 2025
- Flood, May 1, 2025
- Flood, April 4, 2025
- Ice Storm, February 18, 2025
- Flood, February 6, 2025
- Ice Storm, January 9, 2025
- Hail, May 21, 2024
- Flood, February 1, 2024
- Winter Storm, January 14, 2024
- Hail, January 11, 2024
- Tornado, June 25, 2023
- Flood, May 1, 2023
- Flood, April 1, 2023
- Tornado, March 31, 2023
- Flash Flood, March 24, 2023
- Tornado, March 1, 2023
- Flood, March 1, 2023
- Flood, February 13, 2023
- Flash Flood, May 13, 2022
- Flood, May 1, 2022
- Tornado, April 30, 2022
- Tornado, April 11, 2022
- Flood, April 1, 2022
- Flood, March 22, 2022
- Winter Storm, March 11, 2022
- Flood, March 1, 2022
- Winter Storm, February 23, 2022
- Winter Storm, February 2, 2022
- Tornado, June 6, 2021
- Flood, May 1, 2021
- Flood, April 1, 2021
- Flood, March 26, 2021
- Heavy Snow, February 17, 2021
- Heavy Snow, February 14, 2021
- Ice Storm, February 10, 2021
- Flash Flood, June 3, 2020
- Flood, June 1, 2020
- Flood, May 23, 2020
- Flash Flood, May 21, 2020
- Hail, April 28, 2020
- Hail, April 8, 2020
- Flood, April 1, 2020
- Flood, March 1, 2020
- Winter Weather, February 5, 2020
- Flood, February 1, 2020
- Flood, January 16, 2020
- Winter Weather, December 10, 2019
- Hail, October 20, 2019
- Flash Flood, October 4, 2019
- Hail, June 19, 2019
- Flash Flood, June 3, 2019
- Flash Flood, May 21, 2019
- Tornado, May 15, 2019
- Tornado, May 2, 2019
- Flood, May 1, 2019
- Flood, April 20, 2019
- Flash Flood, April 13, 2019
- Tornado, March 9, 2019
- Flood, March 1, 2019
- Flood, February 12, 2019
- Winter Storm, December 7, 2018
- Winter Weather, November 14, 2018
- Flash Flood, July 17, 2018
- Tornado, June 13, 2018
- Hail, May 6, 2018
- Hail, April 3, 2018
- Flood, March 1, 2018
- Flash Flood, March 1, 2018
- Flood, February 21, 2018
- Winter Storm, January 15, 2018
- Flash Flood, August 31, 2017
- Flood, June 1, 2017
- Flash Flood, May 18, 2017
- Flood, May 1, 2017
- Tornado, April 29, 2017
- Tornado, April 26, 2017
- Winter Weather, January 6, 2017
- Flash Flood, March 30, 2016
- Flash Flood, March 9, 2016
- Winter Storm, January 21, 2016
- Flood, January 1, 2016
- Tornado, December 23, 2015
- Flood, December 20, 2015
- Flood, December 1, 2015
- Flash Flood, July 3, 2015
- Flood, May 16, 2015
- Flood, April 15, 2015
- Flood, March 13, 2015
- Winter Storm, March 4, 2015
- Winter Storm, February 25, 2015
- Ice Storm, February 15, 2015
- Winter Weather, November 13, 2014
- Tornado, October 2, 2014
- Flash Flood, August 17, 2014
- Flood, July 1, 2014
- Flash Flood, June 28, 2014
- Flash Flood, June 12, 2014
- Winter Storm, March 2, 2014
- Winter Weather, February 7, 2014
- Ice Storm, February 4, 2014
- Winter Weather, January 8, 2014
- Winter Weather, December 9, 2013
- Winter Weather, December 7, 2013
- Winter Storm, December 5, 2013
- Winter Weather, November 25, 2013
- Heavy Rain, September 20, 2013
- Drought, September 17, 2013
- Hail, May 9, 2013
- Hail, April 27, 2013
- Strong Wind, March 24, 2013
- Hail, February 18, 2013
- Winter Weather, January 15, 2013
- Winter Storm, December 25, 2012
- Strong Wind, December 20, 2012
- Drought, November 1, 2012
- Drought, October 1, 2012
- Hail, September 7, 2012
- Heat, September 1, 2012
- Flash Flood, September 1, 2012
- Drought, September 1, 2012
- Flash Flood, August 29, 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
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 30, 2012
- Flash Flood, May 7, 2012
- Winter Storm, February 13, 2012
- Hail, February 1, 2012
- Tornado, January 22, 2012
- Winter Weather, December 6, 2011
- Flood, December 4, 2011
- Tornado, September 25, 2011
- Hail, August 5, 2011
- Hail, June 28, 2011
- Tornado, June 13, 2011
- Flood, June 1, 2011
- Flood, June 1, 2011
- Tornado, May 1, 2011
- Flood, May 1, 2011
- Flood, May 1, 2011
- Flash Flood, April 30, 2011
- Flood, April 29, 2011
- Tornado, April 24, 2011
- Flash Flood, April 19, 2011
- Strong Wind, April 3, 2011
- Drought, April 1, 2011
- Drought, March 1, 2011
- Tornado, February 24, 2011
- Heavy Snow, February 9, 2011
- Winter Weather, February 6, 2011
- Winter Storm, February 4, 2011
- Winter Storm, February 1, 2011
- Drought, February 1, 2011
- Winter Storm, January 20, 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 19, 2010
- Heat, August 19, 2010
- Heat, August 8, 2010
- Flash Flood, August 5, 2010
- Excessive Heat, August 1, 2010
- Heat, July 30, 2010
- Tornado, July 11, 2010
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 17, 2010
- Flash Flood, May 24, 2010
- Flash Flood, May 19, 2010
- Tornado, March 10, 2010
- Winter Storm, February 7, 2010
- Flood, February 1, 2010
- Winter Storm, January 28, 2010
- Heavy Snow, January 2, 2010
- Flood, January 1, 2010
- Flash Flood, December 23, 2009
- Flood, November 1, 2009
- Flood, October 30, 2009
- Tornado, October 29, 2009
- Heavy Rain, October 1, 2009
- Flash Flood, September 15, 2009
- Flash Flood, August 5, 2009
- Hail, June 30, 2009
- Hail, June 23, 2009
- Tornado, June 12, 2009
- Flash Flood, June 3, 2009
- Flood, June 1, 2009
- Flash Flood, May 12, 2009
- Flood, May 1, 2009
- Tornado, April 8, 2009
- Winter Weather, February 28, 2009
- Ice Storm, January 26, 2009
- Winter Weather, January 5, 2009
- Winter Weather, December 23, 2008
- Winter Storm, December 15, 2008
- Tornado, September 13, 2008
- Tornado, September 2, 2008
- Flash Flood, July 22, 2008
- Hail, June 1, 2008
- Tornado, May 10, 2008
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 7, 2008
- Tornado, May 2, 2008
- Flood, May 1, 2008
- Flash Flood, April 22, 2008
- Flood, April 1, 2008
- Flash Flood, March 29, 2008
- Flood, March 18, 2008
- Tornado, March 17, 2008
- Tornado, March 14, 2008
- Winter Storm, March 6, 2008
- Heavy Snow, March 4, 2008
- Tornado, February 5, 2008
- High Wind, January 29, 2008
- Strong Wind, December 22, 2007
- Flash Flood, December 15, 2007
- Hail, November 14, 2007
- Tornado, October 17, 2007
- Flash Flood, September 4, 2007
- Heat, August 7, 2007
- Flash Flood, July 10, 2007
- Frost/Freeze, April 7, 2007
- Flash Flood, January 13, 2007
- Tornado, November 10, 2006
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 21, 2006
- Hail, April 2, 2006
- High Wind, March 20, 2006
- Tropical Storm, September 24, 2005
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 27, 2005
- Hail, July 22, 2005
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 4, 2005
- Hail, June 7, 2005
- Hail, April 29, 2005
- Hail, March 26, 2005
- Winter Storm, December 22, 2004
- Flash Flood, November 1, 2004
- Tornado, October 18, 2004
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 7, 2004
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 4, 2004
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 30, 2004
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 30, 2004
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 24, 2004
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.