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EF2 tornado in Drew County, Arkansas

Tornado February 24, 2007 · Drew County, Arkansas

EF2

Rating

29.1 mi

Whole path

650 yd

Path width

Injuries

$45.0M

Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 650 yards (0.37 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 touched down in Drew County, about 8 miles north-northeast of Monticello. A large swath of timber was blown down in the northern part of the County, west of the town of Florence. The tornado continued moving northeastward into Lincoln 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 Monticello (33.7369, -91.7468).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 18595. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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