Arkansas

Storm History: Union County, Arkansas

483 episodes, 694 events since 1950

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Union 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
694
Deaths
3
Injuries
35
Damage
$83 million
Episodes
483

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
Hail19400$141,000
Tornado132330$38 million
Thunderstorm Wind12405$1.5 million
Flash Flood7000$1.1 million
Heat5900
Drought4300
Winter Weather2000
Excessive Heat1800
Winter Storm1500
Cold/Wind Chill600$150,000
Ice Storm400$40 million
Flood400$2.0 million
Heavy Snow200
Strong Wind200$35,000
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 Union County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Union CountyEvery warning in Union 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.