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EF0 tornado in Jefferson County, Arkansas

Tornado July 8, 2024 · Jefferson County, Arkansas

EF0
Rating
5.8 mi
Path length
75 yd
Path width
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 75 yards (0.04 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

This tornado was associated with a rainband within the remnants of Hurricane Beryl, forming just to the north of Pine Bluff, near the southeastern perimeter of Pine Bluff Arsenal. The tornado then crossed the Arkansas River, moving through a rural region of Jefferson County, paralleling Earl Chadick Road, and then dissipated near Pastoria, causing only minor tree damage. This tornado had maximum estimated wind speeds of 80 mph, consistent with an EF-0 rating.

The wider storm

Hurricane Beryl made landfall near Matagorda Texas on the morning of the 8th. The remnants of Beryl quickly tracked northward after landfall, bringing spiral feeder bands of showers and thunderstorms into Arkansas during the afternoon and evening. Overnight on the 8th through the morning of the 9th, the remnants of Beryl tracked northeastward up Interstate 30 and Highway 67/167 through Arkansas. Heavy rainfall led to areas of flash flooding as well as tornadoes on the north and east side of the center of circulation. The system pushed out of Arkansas by mid-day on the 9th.

Began near Warbritton (34.2732, -92.0288).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1200647. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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