Tornado in Yell County, Arkansas
Tornado November 4, 2024 · Yell County, Arkansas
The path drawn at its surveyed width of 190 yards (0.11 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.
What the National Weather Service wrote
This tornado was confirmed by the KSRX (Ft. Smith radar) and KLZK radars as a tornado debris signature (TDS). Due to the limited road network and wooded terrain this tornado crossed over, the extent of the damage is unknown. However, satellite data shows a swath of uprooted or snapped trees beginning just to the east of County Road 86 and north of Onyx Trail. The tornado then moved northeast over County Road 82 towards Forest Service Road 85a-F lifting just before it got to NF Road. The tornado has been given a rating of EF-unknown (EF-U) since the extent of the damage is unknown.
The wider storm
A stationary front began retreating back northward as a warm front and led to a few brief tornadoes forming along this boundary that occurred in remote areas of west-central Arkansas and were extremely weak in intensity.
Began near Aly (34.8500, -93.4900).
Other tornadoes from the same storm system
2 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.
Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1224378. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.
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