EF1 tornado in White County, Arkansas

Tornado April 20, 2025 · White County, Arkansas

EF1

Rating

14.2 mi

Whole path

500 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 500 yards (0.28 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 continued out of Lonoke County into White County. The tornado would cross Archer Road, Blakely Lane, and Gillham Road before dissipating near the community of Opal near Highway 64. The tornado removed most of the roofing material off of a couple outbuildings along its path in White County. Within White County, the tornado was rated an EF-1 with maximum estimated winds of 90 mph. The total length of the tornado was 14.1 miles and was rated an EF-1 with maximum winds of 105 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 El Paso (35.0700, -92.0300).

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 1265117. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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