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EF1 tornado in Washington County, Arkansas
Tornado May 20, 2013 · Washington County, Arkansas
NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Adair County, Oklahoma → Washington County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.
The path drawn at its surveyed width of 500 yards (0.28 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.
What the National Weather Service wrote
This is the second and final segment of this tornado. In Washington County, this tornado damaged a home, damaged several barns, and snapped or uprooted numerous trees. Based on this damage, maximum estimated wind in this tornado segment was 100 to 110 mph.
The wider storm
Severe thunderstorms developed along a nearly stationary frontal boundary over central Oklahoma during the early afternoon hours of the 20th. Very unstable air combined with strong low-level and deep-layer shear resulted in long-lived supercells forming over central Oklahoma and moving eastward into eastern Oklahoma. The storms organized into bow echos and line segments over eastern Oklahoma, from which several other tornadoes developed during the early evening hours. One such tornado moved into northwestern Arkansas dissipating north of Cincinnati in Washington County. Two other tornadoes developed in Benton County. Damaging wind and large hail was also widespread across the region from these storms.
Began near Cincinnati (36.0419, -94.5416).
Other tornadoes from the same storm system
2 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.
Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 455298. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.
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