EF1 Tornado — Nevada, Arkansas

2024-07-08 · near Mendenhall, Nevada, Arkansas

Event narrative

This is a continuation of the Ouachita County tornado. Drone video indicated that this EF-1 tornado, with estimated maximum winds near 90 mph, tracked northwest into extreme Eastern Nevada County just south of County Road 332/County Road 25, and snapped/uprooted trees along its path, while also ripping the metal roof off of a barn just south of CR 25 just west of the Ouachita County line. The tornado then lifted just north of CR 25, but not before additional trees were snapped and minor roof damage occurred to a home.

Wider weather episode

Tropical Storm Beryl briefly strengthened into a Category 1 hurricane with 80 mph winds as it made landfall along the Southeast Texas coast near Matagorda Bay during the early morning hours of July 8th, and tracked north-northeast across East Texas and into Southwest Arkansas during the afternoon and evening hours. While Beryl weakened into a tropical storm over portions of Deep East Texas by mid-afternoon, very strong wind shear and helicity existed near and east of the center, contributing to the largest tornado outbreak in NWS Shreveport history, as well as with any landfalling tropical system. A total of 43 tornadoes were confirmed through NWS surveys across East Texas, North Louisiana, and Southwest Arkansas, before Beryl weakened into a depression by late afternoon over East Texas. As a part of this outbreak, six tornadoes touched down across portions of Southwest Arkansas.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event_id 1195803. Narrative written by the NWS forecast office that issued the report.