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EF1 tornado in Chicot County, Arkansas

Tornado May 20, 2025 · Chicot County, Arkansas

EF1
Rating
11.6 mi
Path length
700 yd
Path width
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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 700 yards (0.40 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

An EF-1 tornado tracked along Arkansas Highway 160, beginning near the County Road 252 intersection, and it continued through Chicot Junction and lifted east of US Highway 65. Along the path, several utility poles were snapped along Arkansas 160, and several trees were snapped or uprooted. Two metal farm buildings along the Boeuf River were damaged, with one having concrete anchors pulled from the ground aided by the open air layout of the building. The tornado lifted within a fielded area east of Bayou Macon. The maximum estimated wind speeds were 110 mph.

The wider storm

Severe storms produced damaging winds, hail, and a tornado in southeast Arkansas.

Began near Cosgrove (33.2128, -91.4107).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1267802. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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