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EF0 tornado in Madison County, Arkansas

Tornado April 5, 2023 · Madison County, Arkansas

EF0
Rating
2.8 mi
Path length
300 yd
Path width
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 300 yards (0.17 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

This tornado snapped large tree limbs and uprooted small trees. Based on this damage, maximum estimated wind in the tornado was 75 to 80 mph.

The wider storm

Strong to severe thunderstorms developed into northwestern Arkansas during the early morning hours of the 5th, ahead of and along a cold front that moved through the region. The air mass had become moderately unstable ahead of the front. Deep layer wind shear was strong, and combined with the instability, resulted in a few supercell thunderstorms developing over portions of northwestern Arkansas. One supercell produced a tornado and damaging wind in northeastern Carroll County, and another supercell produced a brief tornado in eastern Madison County. A squall line along the cold front then moved through the region. The strongest storms in the line produced hail up to quarter size.

Began near Weathers (35.9670, -93.5241).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EFU Carroll County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1084419. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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