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The public record 1996 to today

Arkansas hail history

The public federal storm record holds 1,384 days with hail somewhere in Arkansas since 1996, 986 of them at 1.00″ or more, across 22,764 reports. The largest on record is 5.00″ on 21 January 1999 in INDEPENDENCE County. 68 cities have hail on record within 10 miles of their centre, and each has a page that says what was searched and which storm days more than one source carried. The wind family has its own index: Arkansas wind history.

1,384

Days with hail on record, statewide

986

Days at 1.00″ or more

5.00in

Largest on record, Jan 1999

68

Cities with hail on record nearby

Hail by city in Arkansas

Ranked by days with hail on record within 10 miles of each city's centre, then by population. Every place of five thousand people or more has a page; the busiest are listed here and the rest are a disclosure away.

  1. 01 Van Buren 153 days
  2. 02 Barling 146 days
  3. 03 Fort Smith 141 days
  4. 04 Little Rock 140 days
  5. 05 North Little Rock 140 days
  6. 06 Sherwood 138 days
  7. 07 Jacksonville 126 days
  8. 08 Maumelle 119 days
  9. 09 Bryant 116 days
  10. 10 Cabot 111 days
  11. 11 Rogers 108 days
  12. 12 Alma 107 days
  13. 13 Fayetteville 104 days
  14. 14 Springdale 104 days
  15. 15 Benton 103 days
  16. 16 Cave Springs 102 days
  17. 17 Farmington 101 days
  18. 18 Tontitown 101 days
  19. 19 Bentonville 100 days
  20. 20 Lowell 99 days
  21. 21 Prairie Grove 93 days
  22. 22 Ward 91 days
  23. 23 Mountain Home 90 days
  24. 24 Greenwood 89 days
  25. 25 Hot Springs 86 days
  26. 26 Pea Ridge 84 days
  27. 27 Jonesboro 83 days
  28. 28 Conway 82 days
  29. 29 Beebe 82 days
  30. 30 Centerton 81 days
Every place in Arkansas (68)

Hail days by year in Arkansas

Days with hail At 1.00″ or more

The busiest year on record is 2011, with 71 days of hail, 63 of them at 1.00″ or more.

Largest hail recorded in Arkansas

Measured Detected, not measured

Largest hail recorded in Arkansas: date, hail size, evidence and where the report was taken.
Date Size Evidence County
21 Jan 1999 5.00″ Ground observation INDEPENDENCE, AR
02 Apr 2006 5.00″ Ground observation Not stated
02 Apr 2006 5.00″ Ground observation WHITE, AR
02 Apr 2006 5.00″ Ground observation Not stated
02 Apr 2006 5.00″ Ground observation WHITE, AR
19 Jun 2019 5.00″ Ground observation POLK, AR
19 Jun 2019 5.00″ Ground observation Not stated
19 Jun 2019 5.00″ Ground observation POLK, AR

Hail days by month in Arkansas

Hail here is a May matter: 264 of the days on record fall in that month, all years together.

The next step

Get the hail report for an address in Arkansas

The figures on this page are the record across Arkansas: enough to know there is something to cite, and from where. None of it says what reached one roof.

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How this page is made

What counted
Every hail report in the archive filed under Arkansas by its source, with the cities ranked by the reports within 10 miles of each centre. A hail day is a calendar date with at least one report: four sources describing one storm are one afternoon of hail, not four.
Measured and detected
A report from a person or an instrument is measured. A radar-derived size is a detection and is marked as one, here and in every document we issue. The two are never added together.
Severe
A day counts as severe when its largest report reached 1.00″, the National Weather Service criterion. Smaller hail is still on the record, and still on this page.
What this is not
Neighbouring places share reports, so counts are not exclusive. This page is the record around a place; it is not a report on any property, and it states no opinion about one.
Terms used on this page
Storm day, independent source, measured and detected: each term this page uses is defined in the glossary as the report prints it.
The record
Searched from 1996 to today. Compiled 2 November 2026 and rebuilt daily as the archive deepens. Records are reproduced as the federal sources published them. The coverage page states what the record holds, by kind and by year.

About this record

Everything here is reproduced from public federal and volunteer weather records, as the agencies and observer networks that publish them released it. Titan Weather compiles the record; it does not observe the weather, and it is not affiliated with any source it cites.

No archive holds everything. Storms cross places where nobody is standing, instruments and observers cover some areas better than others, sources revise their records, and recent reports can take weeks to arrive and settle. Coverage also thins as the years go back: an early quiet stretch may describe who was watching rather than what the weather did. Where this page shows nothing, nothing was found in the sources searched, within the period and area it states. That is not a finding that no weather occurred.

A record sits where its source filed it. Reports made from the ground are commonly logged against a town, a landmark or an offset from one rather than the spot where the measurement was taken, so any distance shown for one carries that source's own location error. Radar detections and warning geometry are instrument-located and do not.

These pages describe the public record near a place or on a date. They do not establish what reached any particular property, and nothing here is insurance, legal or engineering advice.