EF0 tornado in Craighead County, Arkansas

A weak tornado briefly touched down just west of Highway 1, approximately 5 miles south of Jonesboro and moved northeast. The tornado crossed over Highway 1 and then lifted. An office building had the roof partially blown off. Two garage doors of storage units were blown in. One window was blown out of a business and a chain link fence was partially knocked down as well.

A stationary front remained draped across Southern Missouri into Western Kentucky from April 24th, 2011 into April 25th, 2011. A very warm and unstable atmosphere was in place across the Mid-South ahead of the front. A low pressure system developed along the front and interacted with the unstable environment which helped produce several rounds of severe storms into the evening of April 26th, 2011. As a result of the severe storms, the front sank south during the early morning hours of April 27th, 2011 as a secondary low pressure system developed along the front. As a result, another round of severe storms fired during the afternoon hours ahead of the low pressure center. Additional severe storms fired along the trailing cold front. Tornadoes, large hail, damaging winds, flash flooding occurred as a result of the severe storms. Heavy rain from the continuous rounds of severe weather eventually resulted in record river flooding on a number of rivers in the region.