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EF0 tornado in Fulton County, Arkansas

Tornado May 26, 2024 · Fulton County, Arkansas

EF0

Rating

34.6 mi

Whole path

1,760 yd

Path width

Death

Injuries

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Marion County → Baxter County → Fulton County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 1,760 yards (1.00 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

The Briarcliff Tornado kept moving northeast into Fulton County from Baxter County, decreasing in width, and moved primarily over rural areas, causing only tree

damage, and eventually dissipating just west of Elizabeth Road

near Center Point Loop. This tornado tracked across three counties was rated an EF3 with

maximum estimated wind speeds of 140 mph.

The wider storm

A couple long-tracked supercells moved across the northern two to three rows of counties during the predawn hours of the Memorial Day weekend. These storms triggered numerous tornadoes, some of which strong and long-lived, in addition to widespread straight-line wind damage.

Began near Ruth (36.3324, -92.1563).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF3 Marion County 4 dead EF2 Baxter County EF1 Fulton County EF1 Sharp County EF1 Randolph County EF1 Randolph County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1181785. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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