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EF1 tornado in Desha County, Arkansas

Tornado February 24, 2007 · Desha County, Arkansas

EF1

Rating

8.5 mi

Whole path

50 yd

Path width

$125K

Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 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 touched down in Desha County, about 2.5 miles northeast of Pendleton. There was damage to a grain storage facility near the Arkansas River. Then, the tornado tracked along the Arkansas River channel, so the only additional damage noted was several trees that were twisted or snapped off. The tornado continue moving northeastward into Arkansas County.

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 Pendleton (33.9956, -91.3492).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 18590. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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