EF1 tornado in Sebastian County, Arkansas

This tornado developed along Watson Road, west of Highway 71 and north of Young Ridge Road. It moved northwest across Vineyard Creek Road, Hendrix Road, and Nickletown Road, before dissipating just south of Highway 10. The tornado uprooted trees, damaged an outbuilding, and snapped numerous large tree limbs. The tornado produced a tornadic debris signature from the KSRX WSR-88D radar. Based on this damage, maximum estimated wind in the tornado was 90 to 100 mph.

A broken band of thunderstorms developed across portions of northwestern Arkansas during the evening of the 6th, as an upper level disturbance approached the region. Low level wind shear increased with the approach of the disturbance, and this wind shear combined with a moderately unstable air mass that had developed, resulted in some of the storms developing low level rotation, which supported the formation of three tornadoes across Sebastian and Crawford Counties.