EF2 tornado in Benton County, Arkansas

This tornado developed just south of Highway 62, damaging trees and apartment buildings. It moved north-northeast, crossing Highway 62, then moved northeast. It damaged a business and multiple homes, and uprooted trees as it approached N 13th Street. A home was severely damaged along N 13th Street, an outbuilding was damaged and trees were snapped. The tornado continued northeast, crossing Little Flock Drive and then Highway 94, and then dissipated after damaging the roofs of two homes on Yocum Road. Based on this damage, maximum estimated wind in the tornado was 110 to 115 mph.

Strong to severe thunderstorms developed into and across northwestern Arkansas during the afternoon of the 4th, in an unseasonably moist and unstable air mass ahead of an approaching cold front. The atmosphere became very unstable ahead of the thunderstorms. The deep-layer and low-level wind shear strengthened during the afternoon, in response to a strong storm system translating into the Southern Plains from the Southern Rockies. The combination of very unstable air and very strong wind shear resulted in the development of some supercell thunderstorms, which produced several tornadoes across Benton and Washington Counties. Locally heavy rainfall resulted in flash flooding across portions of Benton, Madison, and Franklin Counties.