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EF0 tornado in Cross County, Arkansas

Tornado May 2, 2008 · Cross County, Arkansas

EF0

Rating

20.2 mi

Whole path

25 yd

Path width

Injuries

$2.0M

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Cross County → Crittenden County → Mississippi County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 25 yards (0.01 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 tornado touched down southeast of Parkin, just east of Smithdale Road. The tornado tracked northeast into Crittenden County. Little damage was reported with the tornado in Cross County.

The wider storm

A cold front approached the Midsouth during the afternoon hours of May 2nd, 2008, Numerous showers and thunderstorms developed ahead and along the front. Storms quickly became severe and produced large hail, damaging winds and a few tornadoes. The severe weather continued into the early morning hours of May 3rd, 2008 with the passage of the front.

Began near Smithdale (35.2329, -90.5188).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Mississippi County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 103620. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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