Arkansas

Storm History: Searcy County, Arkansas

252 episodes, 329 events since 1958

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Searcy 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
329
Deaths
0
Injuries
2
Damage
$11 million
Episodes
252

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
Hail11100$283,000
Tornado7302$4.9 million
Thunderstorm Wind6500$2.0 million
Flash Flood4000$81,000
Flood1500$4.0 million
Winter Storm1000
Winter Weather700
Ice Storm600
Lightning100
Heavy Rain100

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 Searcy County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Searcy CountyEvery warning in Searcy 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.