EF1 tornado in Franklin County, Arkansas

This tornado developed just south of Highway 64 and west of Woodland W Road. It moved east-northeast, crossing Woodland W Road and Highway 64, where numerous trees were snapped or uprooted, some fell onto homes, power poles were snapped, and outbuildings were destroyed. The tornado then moved east across two neighborhoods just north of Highway 64. Numerous trees were uprooted or snapped in these neighborhoods and some homes were damaged when trees or large limbs fell onto them. The tornado then turned southeast and crossed Highway 64 near the Highway 23 intersection, where large tree limbs were snapped and signs were damaged. It then crossed the Arkansas River and then Highway 23, and dissipated east of Santa Fe Trail and Aux Arcade Park Road, snapping numerous large tree limbs before it ended. The tornado produced a tornadic debris signature from the KSRX WSR-88D radar. Based on this damage, maximum estimated wind in the tornado was 95 to 105 mph.

Thunderstorms developed over western Kansas during the afternoon of the 21st, near a surface low pressure system and a quasi-stationary front. These thunderstorms organized into a line as they moved southeast across southern Kansas and northwest Oklahoma during the evening. Several damaging wind reports and a tornado occurred across west central Arkansas during the early morning hours of the 22nd, as this squall line raced through the area.