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EF0 tornado in Clay County, Arkansas

Tornado September 1, 2012 · Clay County, Arkansas

EF0

Rating

1.0 mi

Whole path

25 yd

Path width

$5.0M

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Clay County → Clay 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 EF0 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF0 is light damage: shingles and siding peeled, gutters torn, branches broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 65–85 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 tornado briefly touched down in a farm field near the intersection of County Road 147 and Highway 67, northeast of Corning.

The wider storm

Remnants of Hurricane Isaac moved northward into Eastern Arkansas on September 1st, 2012. Numerous showers and thunderstorms occurred across the area as a result. Some thunderstorms became severe producing damaging winds and a couple tornadoes.

Began near Corning (36.4478, -90.5853).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 414613. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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