EF1 tornado in Saline County, Arkansas

Tornado April 20, 2025 · Saline County, Arkansas

EF1

Rating

7.7 mi

Whole path

350 yd

Path width

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Saline County → Perry County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 350 yards (0.20 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

This tornado began in a highly wooded and largely inaccessible area south of Lake Winona and continued northeast damaging many trees on the Lake Winona side of the community of Reform. The tornado continued northeast, primarily through wooded areas damaging many trees along its path. It eventually crossed over the Saline County line into Perry County. Within Saline County, there was a large swath of nearly continuous tree damage along the entire path of the tornado consistent with a high end EF-1 tornado, with peak estimated winds of 110 mph.

The wider storm

Isolated severe weather developed on the afternoon and evening hours of 20th in close proximity to a warm front and associated upper level feature just north and west of Arkansas.

Began near Reform (34.7685, -92.8661).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

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Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1265091. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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