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EF1 tornado in Prairie County, Arkansas

Tornado March 31, 2023 · Prairie County, Arkansas

EF1
Rating
1.1 mi
Path length
100 yd
Path width
EF0EF1EF2EF3EF4EF5Unrated

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 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

This tornado started in a field southwest of the intersection of

West Crossroads Road and Arkansas Highway 86, snapping a power pole.

The tornado then passed over a barn, lifting the roof off that

barn. The tornado then moved north over Bell Road, removing some

shingles off a house before lifting shortly afterwards. The tornado was rated an EF1 with estimated maximum winds of 90 mph.

The wider storm

A powerful storm system and associated upper trough propagated across the Central Plains into the the Mid-Mississippi Valley. Showers and thunderstorms developed in response to the passing trough triggering strong to severe thunderstorms across Arkansas.

Began near Hayley (34.9457, -91.6692).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF3 Pulaski County 1 deadEF2 Stone County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1090822. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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