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EF1 tornado in Washington County, Arkansas

Tornado April 14, 2026 · Washington County, Arkansas

EF1

Rating

7.5 mi

Whole path

600 yd

Path width

$75K

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through 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 600 yards (0.34 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 is the second segment of a two-segment tornado. The tornado crossed into Washington County, AR, near the 4765 Road. It crossed the Baron Fork River, and damaged outbuildings, uprooted trees, and snapped numerous large tree limbs along Salem Springs Road. Trees were uprooted or snapped along Highway 59 and Sugar Hill Road, before the tornado dissipated southwest of Lincoln. Based on this damage, maximum estimated wind in this segment of the tornado was 95 to 105 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 Marrow (35.9020, -94.5180).

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 1325212. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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