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EF1 tornado in Hot Spring County, Arkansas

Tornado November 4, 2022 · Hot Spring County, Arkansas

EF1

Rating

0.4 mi

Path length

150 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 150 yards (0.09 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

A brief tornado touched down just west of Ridge Road south of Malvern. The tornado uprooted or snapped numerous trees and caused minor roof damage to a metal outbuilding.

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 Twin Oaks (34.2680, -92.8255).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Pike County EF2 Saline County EF1 Polk County EF1 Logan County EF1 Yell County EF1 Yell County EF1 Clark County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1064123. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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