Storm History: Union County, Arkansas
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.
Every year
By kind of event
Counted under the kind that heads each episode.
| Kind of event | Events | Deaths | Injuries | Damage |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hail | 194 | 0 | 0 | $141,000 |
| Tornado | 132 | 3 | 30 | $38 million |
| Thunderstorm Wind | 124 | 0 | 5 | $1.5 million |
| Flash Flood | 70 | 0 | 0 | $1.1 million |
| Heat | 59 | 0 | 0 | |
| Drought | 43 | 0 | 0 | |
| Winter Weather | 20 | 0 | 0 | |
| Excessive Heat | 18 | 0 | 0 | |
| Winter Storm | 15 | 0 | 0 | |
| Cold/Wind Chill | 6 | 0 | 0 | $150,000 |
| Ice Storm | 4 | 0 | 0 | $40 million |
| Flood | 4 | 0 | 0 | $2.0 million |
| Heavy Snow | 2 | 0 | 0 | |
| Strong Wind | 2 | 0 | 0 | $35,000 |
| Tropical Storm | 1 | 0 | 0 |
The deadliest
The costliest
Damage within this county, in the dollars of its year.
- Ice Storm, December 12, 2000
- Tornado, March 9, 1992
- Tornado, March 28, 1972
- Tornado, January 12, 2005
- Flood, October 12, 2009
- Tornado, June 17, 2023
- Thunderstorm Wind, February 10, 1998
- Tornado, October 29, 2009
- Tornado, September 13, 2008
- Tornado, May 18, 1981
- Tornado, December 3, 1978
- Tornado, April 13, 1991
- Flash Flood, August 19, 2008
- Flash Flood, October 9, 2009
- Tornado, April 11, 2016
- Tornado, April 29, 2004
- Tornado, February 5, 2008
- Tornado, April 13, 2018
- Flash Flood, June 14, 2001
- Cold/Wind Chill, January 7, 2010
The largest hail
The largest stone in each episode, which may have fallen in a neighboring county of the same episode.
The strongest tornadoes
- Tornado, March 28, 1975
- Tornado, January 12, 2005
- Tornado, December 3, 1978
- Tornado, May 23, 1957
- Tornado, March 28, 1972
- Tornado, April 8, 1979
- Tornado, February 24, 2007
- Tornado, April 9, 2009
- Tornado, February 12, 1950
- Tornado, September 12, 1961
- Tornado, November 2, 1961
- Tornado, September 21, 1965
- Tornado, April 24, 1973
- Tornado, November 24, 1973
- Tornado, April 11, 1979
Every episode, newest first
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 23, 2026
- Drought, June 1, 2026
- Drought, May 1, 2026
- Drought, April 1, 2026
- Hail, March 15, 2026
- Drought, March 1, 2026
- Drought, February 1, 2026
- Cold/Wind Chill, January 24, 2026
- Winter Storm, January 23, 2026
- Drought, January 15, 2026
- Flash Flood, September 24, 2025
- Heat, August 19, 2025
- Excessive Heat, August 19, 2025
- Heat, August 14, 2025
- Excessive Heat, July 30, 2025
- Heat, July 27, 2025
- Heat, July 20, 2025
- Heat, July 15, 2025
- Heat, June 20, 2025
- Hail, May 17, 2025
- Hail, May 6, 2025
- Flash Flood, April 26, 2025
- Tornado, April 4, 2025
- Hail, March 23, 2025
- Thunderstorm Wind, March 4, 2025
- Winter Weather, February 18, 2025
- Winter Storm, January 9, 2025
- Hail, December 28, 2024
- Drought, December 1, 2024
- Drought, November 1, 2024
- Drought, October 10, 2024
- Excessive Heat, August 13, 2024
- Heat, August 7, 2024
- Heat, August 1, 2024
- Heat, July 29, 2024
- Heat, July 15, 2024
- Heat, July 4, 2024
- Heat, July 1, 2024
- Excessive Heat, June 28, 2024
- Heat, June 23, 2024
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 3, 2024
- Tornado, May 24, 2024
- Flood, April 8, 2024
- Flash Flood, March 15, 2024
- Cold/Wind Chill, January 15, 2024
- Winter Storm, January 14, 2024
- Drought, January 1, 2024
- Drought, December 14, 2023
- Heat, September 5, 2023
- Excessive Heat, August 18, 2023
- Excessive Heat, August 9, 2023
- Heat, August 6, 2023
- Excessive Heat, August 1, 2023
- Excessive Heat, July 31, 2023
- Heat, July 29, 2023
- Heat, July 19, 2023
- Excessive Heat, July 18, 2023
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 16, 2023
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 15, 2023
- Heat, July 13, 2023
- Heat, July 13, 2023
- Tornado, July 12, 2023
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 5, 2023
- Heat, July 1, 2023
- Excessive Heat, June 24, 2023
- Tornado, June 17, 2023
- Hail, June 14, 2023
- Flash Flood, May 11, 2023
- Hail, May 8, 2023
- Hail, April 15, 2023
- Hail, March 26, 2023
- Winter Weather, February 1, 2023
- Winter Weather, January 30, 2023
- Tornado, January 18, 2023
- Tornado, January 2, 2023
- Cold/Wind Chill, December 22, 2022
- Thunderstorm Wind, October 12, 2022
- Heat, August 15, 2022
- Heat, August 3, 2022
- Heat, July 24, 2022
- Excessive Heat, July 19, 2022
- Heat, July 16, 2022
- Heat, July 12, 2022
- Excessive Heat, July 9, 2022
- Heat, July 4, 2022
- Flash Flood, July 3, 2022
- Heat, June 22, 2022
- Heat, June 17, 2022
- Heat, June 12, 2022
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 10, 2022
- Hail, April 30, 2022
- Hail, April 4, 2022
- Drought, April 1, 2022
- Winter Storm, March 11, 2022
- Drought, March 1, 2022
- Winter Weather, February 3, 2022
- Drought, February 1, 2022
- Winter Storm, January 15, 2022
- Drought, January 6, 2022
- Heat, September 1, 2021
- Heat, August 21, 2021
- Heat, August 9, 2021
- Heat, August 1, 2021
- Heat, July 25, 2021
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 16, 2021
- Tornado, June 7, 2021
- Flash Flood, May 9, 2021
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 3, 2021
- Tornado, April 9, 2021
- Hail, March 16, 2021
- Winter Storm, February 16, 2021
- Cold/Wind Chill, February 14, 2021
- Winter Storm, February 14, 2021
- Winter Storm, January 10, 2021
- Heat, August 29, 2020
- Tropical Storm, August 27, 2020
- Heat, August 16, 2020
- Heat, July 10, 2020
- Hail, June 5, 2020
- Tornado, April 28, 2020
- Hail, April 22, 2020
- Hail, April 12, 2020
- Flash Flood, February 12, 2020
- Drought, October 1, 2019
- Drought, September 17, 2019
- Heat, August 17, 2019
- Excessive Heat, August 11, 2019
- Heat, August 7, 2019
- Heat, July 17, 2019
- Heat, July 9, 2019
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 28, 2019
- Heat, June 21, 2019
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 19, 2019
- Flash Flood, April 13, 2019
- Flash Flood, April 7, 2019
- Hail, December 14, 2018
- Winter Weather, November 14, 2018
- Drought, August 1, 2018
- Drought, July 26, 2018
- Heat, July 19, 2018
- Heat, July 15, 2018
- Heat, July 13, 2018
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 6, 2018
- Heat, June 28, 2018
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 22, 2018
- Tornado, April 13, 2018
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 3, 2018
- Winter Storm, January 15, 2018
- Winter Weather, January 12, 2018
- Drought, January 1, 2018
- Drought, December 1, 2017
- Drought, November 16, 2017
- Heat, August 19, 2017
- Heat, July 26, 2017
- Heat, July 19, 2017
- Strong Wind, July 8, 2017
- Hail, April 29, 2017
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 2, 2017
- Tornado, January 21, 2017
- Thunderstorm Wind, January 16, 2017
- Heat, August 24, 2016
- Heat, August 9, 2016
- Heat, August 3, 2016
- Heat, August 1, 2016
- Heat, July 24, 2016
- Heat, July 18, 2016
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 14, 2016
- Heat, July 8, 2016
- Heat, July 6, 2016
- Hail, May 1, 2016
- Tornado, April 11, 2016
- Thunderstorm Wind, March 24, 2016
- Hail, March 16, 2016
- Hail, March 13, 2016
- Flash Flood, March 8, 2016
- Winter Weather, January 22, 2016
- Flash Flood, December 25, 2015
- Flash Flood, December 13, 2015
- Drought, October 1, 2015
- Drought, September 1, 2015
- Heat, August 5, 2015
- Heat, July 13, 2015
- Hail, May 30, 2015
- Flash Flood, May 25, 2015
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 24, 2015
- Hail, April 24, 2015
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 22, 2015
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 9, 2015
- Winter Storm, March 4, 2015
- Winter Storm, February 25, 2015
- Winter Weather, February 23, 2015
- Winter Weather, January 11, 2015
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 23, 2014
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 28, 2014
- Hail, June 8, 2014
- Hail, April 24, 2014
- Hail, April 3, 2014
- Hail, March 28, 2014
- Winter Storm, February 11, 2014
- Winter Weather, February 7, 2014
- Winter Weather, February 4, 2014
- Winter Weather, January 8, 2014
- Cold/Wind Chill, January 5, 2014
- Winter Weather, November 24, 2013
- Drought, October 1, 2013
- Thunderstorm Wind, September 11, 2013
- Drought, September 1, 2013
- Drought, August 1, 2013
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 23, 2013
- Flash Flood, June 1, 2013
- Hail, May 21, 2013
- Hail, May 17, 2013
- Hail, May 16, 2013
- Hail, April 27, 2013
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 18, 2013
- Thunderstorm Wind, March 31, 2013
- Thunderstorm Wind, January 29, 2013
- Winter Weather, January 15, 2013
- Winter Weather, January 14, 2013
- Thunderstorm Wind, December 19, 2012
- Thunderstorm Wind, October 17, 2012
- Drought, September 1, 2012
- Hail, August 9, 2012
- Drought, August 1, 2012
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 28, 2012
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 5, 2012
- Drought, July 1, 2012
- Drought, June 19, 2012
- Thunderstorm Wind, June 12, 2012
- Hail, April 5, 2012
- Hail, April 3, 2012
- Thunderstorm Wind, April 2, 2012
- Flash Flood, March 20, 2012
- Hail, February 1, 2012
- Drought, November 1, 2011
- Drought, October 1, 2011
- Excessive Heat, September 12, 2011
- Excessive Heat, September 1, 2011
- Drought, September 1, 2011
- Thunderstorm Wind, August 20, 2011
- Drought, August 1, 2011
- Excessive Heat, August 1, 2011
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 25, 2011
- Thunderstorm Wind, July 4, 2011
- Excessive Heat, July 1, 2011
- Excessive Heat, June 1, 2011
- Thunderstorm Wind, May 25, 2011
- Tornado, April 26, 2011
- Tornado, April 25, 2011
- Hail, April 15, 2011
Earlier years, state by state:
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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.