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EF1 tornado in St. Francis County, Arkansas

Tornado May 30, 2013 · St. Francis County, Arkansas

EF1

Rating

3.3 mi

Whole path

100 yd

Path width

Injury

$150K

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Monroe County → St. Francis County; the totals above are for the whole tornado.

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 100 yards (0.06 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

A weak tornado crossed from Monroe County into St. Francis County. A few trees and power lines were knocked down. Two tractor trailers were blown off Interstate 40 before the tornado lifted.

The wider storm

An mesoscale convective system developed over Southern Missouri and Northern Arkansas and pushed across Northeast Arkansas into West Tennessee during the early morning hours of May 31, 2013. A few severe storms produced damaging winds and flash flooding. A couple of weak tornadoes also occurred.

Began near Wheatley (34.9115, -91.1438).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 459018. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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