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EF0 tornado in Ashley County, Arkansas

Tornado April 28, 2026 · Ashley County, Arkansas

EF0

Rating

0.8 mi

Path length

25 yd

Path width

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 25 yards (0.01 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

A very brief tornado occurred along County Road 498 in Ashley County. This tornado uprooted trees and caused wooden power poles to lean. The tornado crossed County Road 498 and dissipated in the field just after uprooting more trees. The tornado is rated EF-0 with winds of 85 MPH.

The wider storm

Severe storms moved across SE Arkansas during the late evening hours of April 28, 2026. Some of these thunderstorms produced damaging wind gusts that downed trees and powerlines. Some of these storms produced hail. One of these storms produced a tornado.

Began near Old Milo (33.2917, -91.8978).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 1330013. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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