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EF0 tornado in Prairie County, Arkansas

Tornado April 30, 2022 · Prairie County, Arkansas

EF0

Rating

0.3 mi

Path length

100 yd

Path width

$50K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 100 yards (0.06 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF0 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF0 is light damage: shingles and siding peeled, gutters torn, branches broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 65–85 mph. The rating comes from a survey of the worst damage after the storm, not from a wind measurement, so it says as much about what the tornado hit as about how strong it was.

What the National Weather Service wrote

A video posted to social media showed a brief weak tornado south of Des Arc. The tornado initially began in a farm field near the intersection of North Simmons Road and East Skarda Road. It affected farming facilities on East Skarda Road, blowing the roof and doors off of a farm shop. It also blew propane tanks out of the shop. Two trees were blown over, and multiple power poles were snapped in two. It then lifted shortly after hitting the farm shop.

The wider storm

A cold front brought a broken line of thunderstorms to the state during the afternoon and evening hours of April 30th. One storm tracked from southwest White County east southeastward toward the Mississippi River. It produced hail and even a brief tornado near Des Arc (Prairie County) just before 6 PM CST. A separate storm produced hail briefly along with a weak tornado near Tull (Grant County).

Began near Four Mile Corner (34.9509, -91.5458).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF0 Grant County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1016063. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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