Arkansas

Storm History: Stone County, Arkansas

335 episodes, 400 events since 1953

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Stone 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
400
Deaths
7
Injuries
18
Damage
$101 million
Episodes
335

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
Tornado84718$40 million
Hail8000$277,000
Thunderstorm Wind5400$615,000
Flash Flood4900$637,000
Winter Storm3600$1.6 million
Winter Weather2500$50,000
Drought1600
Ice Storm1100$50 million
Heavy Snow900
Flood900$7.7 million
Heat700
Frost/Freeze500
Strong Wind500$105,000
High Wind200$250,000
Wildfire200
Excessive Heat200
Heavy Rain200
Funnel Cloud100
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 Stone County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Stone CountyEvery warning in Stone 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.