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EF0 tornado in Crawford County, Arkansas

Tornado June 6, 2025 · Crawford County, Arkansas

EF0

Rating

2.0 mi

Whole path

250 yd

Path width

Injury

$515K

Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 250 yards (0.14 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 is the second segment of a two segment tornado. The tornado crossed the Arkansas River and moved into the Port of Van Buren. It damaged a fabric and metal storage building, and damaged the roof of another building. The tornado dissipated as it left the port area. It produced a tornadic debris signature from the KSRX WSR-88D radar. Based on this damage, maximum estimated wind in this segment of the tornado was 80 to 85 mph.

The wider storm

Strong to severe thunderstorms developed during the evening of the 5th over southeast Colorado, southwest Kansas, and the western Oklahoma Panhandle. The storms moved southeast across Oklahoma through the early morning hours of the 6th, evolving into a well-organized squall line by the time they moved into northwestern Arkansas. The line of strong to severe thunderstorms produced several tornadoes and damaging wind across portions of northwest Arkansas.

Began near Van Buren (35.4140, -94.3400).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF0 Crawford County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1279658. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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