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EF0 tornado in Arkansas County, Arkansas

Tornado May 6, 2009 · Arkansas County, Arkansas

EF0

Rating

4.4 mi

Path length

25 yd

Path width

$5K

Damage as recorded

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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 weak tornado knocked down a few trees.

The wider storm

Unstable air, fronts meandering in the state, and areas of low pressure aloft contributed to severe weather, including a few tornadoes.

At Arkansas Post (Arkansas County), the rain contributed to making it the wettest May ever recorded.

Began near Immanuel (34.4135, -91.3350).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Drew County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 157862. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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