EF2 tornado — Stone County, Arkansas

EF2 tornado in Stone County, Arkansas

Tornado March 31, 2023 · Stone County, Arkansas

EF2

Rating

6.8 mi

Path length

125 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 125 yards (0.07 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF2 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF2 is considerable damage: roofs torn off well-built houses, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted, consistent with estimated gusts of 111–135 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 just south of Arkansas Hwy 66 near Alco,

moving northeast towards Arkansas Hwy 263 between Onia and Timbo.

After crossing the Arkansas Hwy 263, it ripped the roof off a

house and moved this house off the foundation. The tornado then

moved northeast crossing Big Springs Road, uprooting several

trees. The tornado then lifted just northeast of here before

Clearwater Road. This tornado was rated an EF2 with estimated maximum winds of 111 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.

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1090827. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

EF2 tornado in Stone County, Arkansas

What the National Weather Service wrote

The wider storm

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