Arkansas

Storm History: Woodruff County, Arkansas

535 episodes, 700 events since 1950

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Woodruff 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
700
Deaths
32
Injuries
223
Damage
$61 million
Episodes
535

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.

Open the live radar over Woodruff County

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
Flood36900$34 million
Tornado9032222$9.8 million
Hail5501$179,000
Thunderstorm Wind4700$133,000
Flash Flood4300$3.9 million
Winter Storm2900$1.6 million
Winter Weather1500$20,000
Drought1100
Heat900
Ice Storm800$10 million
Heavy Snow600
Strong Wind500$100,000
Frost/Freeze300
Heavy Rain300
High Wind200$250,000
Excessive Heat200
Lightning100
Tropical Storm100
Wildfire100

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 Woodruff County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Woodruff CountyEvery warning in Woodruff 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.