EF0 tornado in Faulkner County, Arkansas

Tornado April 20, 2025 · Faulkner County, Arkansas

EF0

Rating

14.2 mi

Whole path

200 yd

Path width

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Pulaski County → Faulkner County → Lonoke County → White County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 200 yards (0.11 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF0 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF0 is light damage: shingles and siding peeled, gutters torn, branches broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 65–85 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 moved out of Pulaski County into far southeast Faulkner County. The tornado tracked northeast downing many large limbs over Wilson Hill before continuing northeast into far northwest Lonoke County. Within Faulkner County, the tornado was rated an EF-0 with maximum estimated winds of 80 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 Otto (35.0100, -92.1500).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Saline County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1265103. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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