Arkansas

Storm History: Yell County, Arkansas

439 episodes, 610 events since 1951

Every storm the National Weather Service has filed in Yell 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
610
Deaths
3
Injuries
14
Damage
$12 million
Episodes
439

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
Hail20000$1.2 million
Tornado12628$6.0 million
Thunderstorm Wind10000$65,000
Flash Flood8702$1.2 million
Flood7700$4.0 million
Heavy Rain600
Winter Storm500
Lightning414$1,000
Ice Storm300
Winter Weather200

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 Yell County, with its track

Every episode, newest first

Earlier years, state by state:

More

Tornadoes in Yell CountyEvery warning in Yell 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.