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EF0 tornado in Washington County, Arkansas

Tornado April 14, 2026 · Washington County, Arkansas

EF0

Rating

24.2 mi

Whole path

800 yd

Path width

$70K

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Cherokee County, Oklahoma → Adair County, Oklahoma → Washington County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 800 yards (0.45 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 third segment of a three-segment tornado. The tornado moved into Washington County, AR, south of W Cincinnati Road. It moved northeast across Highway 59 near Cincinnati, where numerous large tree limbs were snapped. Numerous large tree limbs were also snapped as it crossed Rennic Road and Ham Road before dissipating. Based on this damage, maximum estimated wind in this segment of the tornado was 75 to 85 mph.

The wider storm

Strong to severe thunderstorms developed over central Oklahoma during the early evening of the 14th, ahead of a dry line and an approaching upper level disturbance. The thunderstorms organized into a squall line and moved eastward into northwestern Arkansas during the early morning hours of the 15th. The line of thunderstorms produced several tornadoes and damaging wind.

Another round of strong to severe thunderstorms developed into northwestern Arkansas during the evening of the 15th. The strongest thunderstorms produced damaging wind.

Began near Cincinnati (36.0280, -94.5390).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Adair County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1325208. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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