EF1 tornado in Jefferson County, Arkansas

Soon after the tornado touched down, it damaged a church, where the steeple was toppled and the portico blown down. It then took part of the roof off a house. Next, the tornado traveled into a shopping center. A discount store had several doors blown in, part of the facade blown off, and damage to the roof which resulted in water dripping inside the store.. A car, a small pickup truck, and a tractor-trailer were overturned. Shopping carts and cart corrals were blown around the parking lot. An ice machine at a gas station was blown out into the driveway. A couple of restaurants and a branch bank suffered roof damage. A couple of business signs were blown out. Three people were injured in the business area. The tornado then continued into a residential area. One house was badly damaged when a tree fell into it, and a couple of outbuildings were destroyed. Several homes had shingles torn off and a fence was blown down. Along the path of the tornado, dozens of large trees were blown down. One of these trees fell on a car, injuring a person.

A large storm system in the Rockies headed through the Plains into the upper Midwest on the 29th. Rain increased ahead of the system, and became widespread in Arkansas. Meanwhile, a cold front arrived from the west. Because the system was so far to the north, it did not give the front much push. The front slowed down, which prolonged the rain. The result was widespread flash flooding, which gave way to areal flooding and river flooding. Winds changed direction and speed up through the atmosphere, a favorable condition for tornadoes. However, instability was sufficient only in southern Arkansas for the development of tornadoes.