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EF1 tornado in Yell County, Arkansas

Tornado November 4, 2022 · Yell County, Arkansas

EF1
Rating
3.7 mi
Path length
600 yd
Path width
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

The path drawn at its surveyed width of 600 yards (0.34 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 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

The tornado began along Little Texas Road south of Highway 28 in Yell County. Several pine and hardwood trees were either snapped or uprooted along Little Texas Road and Billingsley Lane. As the tornado moved northeast and crossed Highway 28 near Gafford Creek, a carport was destroyed but the home received no damage. Additional tree damage occurred as the tornado crossed Gafford Creek with the tornado dissipating shortly after near Bluff Road.

The wider storm

A cold front approached Arkansas from the west late Friday night into Saturday morning. Strong to severe thunderstorms developed along and ahead of this front,

with damaging winds and tornadoes observed across the state. This thunderstorm activity grew upscale from singular supercells into a linear QLCS line over the eastern half of Arkansas.

Began near Gravelly (34.8638, -93.6553).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

7 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF2 Pike CountyEF2 Saline CountyEF1 Polk CountyEF1 Logan CountyEF1 Yell CountyEF1 Clark CountyEF1 Hot Spring County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1064104. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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