diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index 47d55e5c..f0c35faa 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 0.57.1
  - fix: RTDCWriter.rectify_metadata fails when image feature is empty
- - fix: Handle empty write requests in export.hdf5 and RTDCWriter (#242)
+ - fix: handle empty write requests in export.hdf5 and RTDCWriter (#242)
+ - tests: add test for writing all-nan data (#242)
  - docs: improve documentation of hierarchy child mapper
 0.57.0
  - fix: integer overflow in downsample_grid
diff --git a/tests/test_rtdc_writer.py b/tests/test_rtdc_writer.py
index c5c9312d..c6945e7c 100644
--- a/tests/test_rtdc_writer.py
+++ b/tests/test_rtdc_writer.py
@@ -568,6 +568,19 @@ def test_mode():
         assert len(events2["area_um"]) == len(data["area_um"])
 
 
+def test_nan_array():
+    rtdc_file = tempfile.mktemp(suffix=".rtdc",
+                                prefix="dclab_test_error_")
+    with RTDCWriter(rtdc_file) as hw:
+        with pytest.warns(RuntimeWarning) as record:
+            hw.store_feature("deform", np.full(100, np.nan))
+
+    assert len(record) == 3
+    assert record[0].message.args[0] == "All-NaN axis encountered"
+    assert record[1].message.args[0] == "All-NaN axis encountered"
+    assert record[2].message.args[0] == "Mean of empty slice"
+
+
 @pytest.mark.filterwarnings(
     "ignore::dclab.rtdc_dataset.config.WrongConfigurationTypeWarning")
 def test_non_scalar_bad_shape():