On Monday, April 13, 10am at the auditorium of the Stone County Museum, the Society will host its first Gather & Gab session. This is to be a very informal conversation with the topic of “Storm Stories.” VP Kay Thomas will facilitate the conversation and has invited Stone County residents Dan & Patricia Stewart to kick off the event by sharing their story from the 2008 tornado. This was the longest tracking tornado in Arkansas history at 122 miles on the ground. Others are invited to share their experience from that storm as well as stories from other storms. Other notable Stone County storms include:
- 1929 Guion tornado
- April 3, 1974 Green Tower Tornado (EF4)
- December 1982 White River Flood
- April 14, 1996 Allison/Stone/Izard tornado which claimed seven lives along its 40-mile path
- February 5, 2008, 122 mile path from near Atkins to near Highland, cutting a path through Stone County (EF4)
- January 2009 ice storm
- March 14, 2025 Onia-Fifty Six tornado (EF4)