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EF0 tornado in Hot Spring County, Arkansas

Tornado October 18, 2025 · Hot Spring County, Arkansas

EF0

Rating

0.8 mi

Path length

100 yd

Path width

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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 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 brief QLCS (Quasi-Linear Convective System) tornado started near Sycamore Drive in Hot Spring County, just north of Arkansas State Highway 128, and produced mainly tree damage along a short path. The tornado moved eastward, and dissipated as it reached Owasso Trail. Survey results found damage consistent with an EF1 tornado with winds of 105 mph.

The wider storm

An approaching cold front to the northwest of Arkansas in combination with temperatures which soared well into the 80s led to the development of isolated storms along an outflow boundary which led to a few isolated instances of severe weather across Arkansas.

Began near Duffie (34.2756, -93.1016).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1295571. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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