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EF1 tornado in Benton County, Arkansas

Tornado April 1, 2024 · Benton County, Arkansas

EF1

Rating

2.8 mi

Path length

550 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 550 yards (0.31 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 developed over the northeastern side of Pea Ridge National Military Park, northwest of Elkhorn Tavern. It moved east-northeast uprooting numerous trees on N Old Wire Road, and Limekiln Road. The tornado dissipated east of Limekiln Road. Based on this damage, maximum estimated wind in the tornado was 90 to 100 mph.

The wider storm

Severe thunderstorms developed along a dry line over central and western Oklahoma during the afternoon of the 1st, as a strong upper level disturbance translated into the Southern Plains. The storms evolved into a squall line and moved through northwestern Arkansas during the late evening and early morning hours of the 2nd, producing two tornadoes and damaging wind gusts.

Began near Garfield (36.4561, -94.0265).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Benton County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1163672. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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