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EF1 tornado in Drew County, Arkansas

Tornado February 24, 2007 · Drew County, Arkansas

EF1

Rating

21.6 mi

Whole path

50 yd

Path width

Injuries

$200K

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Bradley County → Drew 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

The tornado moved out of Bradley County and into Drew County about 9.6 miles west of Lacey. A number of trees were blown down. The tornado dissipated about 8 miles west-northwest of Lacey.

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 Lacey (33.4500, -92.0163).

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 EF1 Drew County EF1 Desha County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 18594. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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