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EF2 tornado in Lincoln County, Arkansas

Tornado February 24, 2007 · Lincoln County, Arkansas

EF2

Rating

14.8 mi

Whole path

200 yd

Path width

$200K

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Drew County → Lincoln County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 200 yards (0.11 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF2 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF2 is considerable damage: roofs torn off well-built houses, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted, consistent with estimated gusts of 111–135 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 strong tornado moved out of Drew County and into Lincoln County about 5.2 miles south-southwest of Garrett Bridge. Damage along the path of the tornado consisted of hundreds of downed trees. Part of a house was destroyed and several shop buildings sustained damage. The tornado dissipated about 3.5 miles southeast of Garrett Bridge.

The wider storm

Severe thunderstorms affected parts of Central and Southeast Arkansas during the afternoon of the 24th. Several isolated supercells moved across the region and produced tornadoes.

Began near Garrett Bridge (33.8005, -91.6846).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

4 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

EF3 Drew County EF2 Bradley County EF1 Drew County EF1 Desha County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 18588. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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