EF1 tornado in Clark County, Arkansas

Tornado May 20, 2025 · Clark County, Arkansas

EF1

Rating

3.8 mi

Whole path

100 yd

Path width

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 100 yards (0.06 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 appears to have begun near the northeast side of DeGray

Lake at the Clark and Hot Springs County lines. A large swath of

trees was snapped and uprooted at Hwy 7 north of De Gray Lake Dike

and south of Central Ave. This tornado continued into Hot Springs County. Maximum estimated winds within Clark County were 100 mph.

The wider storm

Strong to severe storms impacted the state over a five day span. In total, large hail and damaging winds were the primary hazards, however short lived tornado also occurred.

Began near Ozan Point (34.2430, -93.1198).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1280293. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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