EF1 tornado in Hempstead County, Arkansas

A relative brief EF-1 tornado with estimated maximum winds of 105 mph touched down along Highway 32 just west of the Hempstead/Nevada County line west of the Bodcaw community, quickly moving northeast into Western Nevada County. Multiple trees were snapped and uprooted along Highway 32 before this tornado crossed over into Nevada County.

A stationary front extended across portions of Northeast Texas and Southwest Arkansas during the early morning hours on April 4th, but lifted north into Southeast Oklahoma and Western Arkansas during the day. This was in response to an intensifying low level jet that developed ahead of a large upper trough that extended from the Intermountain West into the Plains, which provided the necessary lift across the very warm, moist, and unstable air mass in place south of this front across much of the region. As a result, numerous showers and thunderstorms developed across the area during the afternoon and evening, which produced damaging winds, large hail, and tornadoes. As these storms moved repeatedly over the same areas, flash flooding also became an issue across Northeast Texas and Southwest Arkansas through the 5th, where total rainfall amounts of 4-8 inches fell. These totals resulted in the overtopping of McKinney Bayou west of Garland on the 5th, which continued through the 7th. However, the levee did not breach.