Climatology

Brinkley Tornado of 1909
aka: Brinkley Cyclone
aka: Tornado Outbreak of March 8, 1909
Thirty-five people were killed and most of the town of Brinkley (Mo...
Climate and Weather
Officially classified by climatologist Wladimir Köppen as having a humid sub-tropical climate, Arkansas is in...
Climate Change
aka: Global Warming
The spring of 2019 brought record flooding along the Arkansas River...
Derechos, Squall Lines, Downbursts/Microbursts, and "Rogue" Winds
While Arkansas makes national news far more often for its tornadoes, the state suffers its fair share of what ...
Fort Smith Tornado of 1898
On January 11, 1898, a tornado tore through Fort Smith (Sebastian County) and killed more than fifty people; i...
Izard County Tornado of 1883
A tornado tore through north-central Arkansas on November 21, 1883, killing around eleven people, injuring doz...
Sneed Tornado of 1929
aka: Tornado Outbreak of April 10, 1929
The only F5 tornado ever recorded in Arkansas destroyed the Sneed a...
Tornado Outbreak of 1952
The tornado season of 1952 was a particularly eventful one throughout the state. Twenty-six tornadoes were rep...
Tornado Outbreak of 2023
On March 31, 2023, a massive outbreak of tornadoes struck nine states across the country, from Arkansas and Io...
Tornado Outbreak of 2024
In the early morning hours of Sunday, May 26, 2024, during Memorial Day weekend, multiple tornadoes struck nor...
Tornado Outbreak of April 27, 2014
A series of tornadoes struck central Arkansas on the evening of April 27, 2014, killing sixteen people and cau...
Tornado Outbreak of December 14, 1987
Six people were killed, hundreds were injured, and hundreds of homes and businesses were destroyed by a tornad...
Tornado Outbreak of June 1, 1947
A tornado that began at the Union community in Jefferson County on June 1, 1947, killed thirty-four people and...
Tornado Outbreak of March 1, 1997
The tornado outbreak of March 1, 1997, was one of the deadliest in the history of the state of Arkansas. Sixte...
Tornado Outbreak of May 15, 1968
A series of tornadoes that struck Arkansas on May 15, 1968, killed forty-five people in four Arkansas counties...
Tornado Outbreak of May 26–27, 1973
A series of tornadoes on the night of May 26 and 27, 1973, caused major damage in five Arkansas counties and d...
Tornado Outbreak of November 20, 1883
A tornado outbreak on November 20, 1883, killed a man and fatally injured another man in Johnson County and ki...
Tornadoes
Tornadoes—destructive, violently spinning vortices of air extending from high within severe thunderstorms to...
Tropical Cyclones
aka: Tropical Storms and Depressions
As defined by the National Hurricane Center, a tropical cyclone is ...
Weather in the Civil War
Drought, flooding, bone-chilling winters, and intense summer heat all had an impact on the civilian and milita...