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EF1 tornado in Lincoln County, Arkansas

Tornado January 5, 2025 · Lincoln County, Arkansas

EF1

Rating

1.2 mi

Path length

300 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 300 yards (0.17 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 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 Garrett Bridge tornado began north of Arkansas Highway 54 along Arkansas Highway 54E. The tornado tracked northeastward where it damaged some chicken houses along Arkansas Highway 54E. The tornado then proceeded east-northeast along Arkansas Highway 54E causing roof damage to two homes. The tornado then tracked towards the northeast uprooting and snapping several trees before crossing Grangeway Road. Due to the lack of damage in this area, the tornado appears to have lifted near a barn just north of Grangeway Road. This tornado tracked through Lincoln County and has been given a rating of EF-1 with 95 mph estimated winds.

The wider storm

An extremely steep cold front, lifting warm front across Arkansas, and an Arctic surface high pressure across the Central Plains region of the CONUS brought a mixed bag of severe weather to the Natural State. A tornado occurred within the warm sector latching on to the warm front in southeastern Arkansas. Additionally, behind the steep cold front which swept in from the northwest, a location in far north-central Arkansas recorded less than an inch of snow on the backside of this dynamic storm system.

Began near Rose Hill (33.8672, -91.6875).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1244460. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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