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EF1 tornado in Lincoln County, Arkansas

Tornado February 24, 2007 · Lincoln County, Arkansas

EF1
Rating
29.1 mi
Whole path
25 yd
Path width
28
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 25 yards (0.01 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 Drew County and into Lincoln County about 5.5 miles south-southeast of Garrett Bridge. The tornado weakened somewhat as it tracked across the southeast corner of Lincoln County. Damage noted along the tornado path consisted of two downed power lines and a few dozen trees that were uprooted or snapped off. The tornado continued moving northeastward into Desha 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 Garrett Bridge (33.7965, -91.6134).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 18596. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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