EF1 tornado in Desha County, Arkansas

This tornado moved out of Chicot County into Desha County. One mobile home was knocked off its foundation, had its porch torn off, and had a large metal intermodal shipping container in the back yard overturn and crash into the rear wall of the mobile home, smashing in the kitchen wall. A house had its porch torn off, roof damage, a hole punched in a wall, and broken windows. Another house had a considerable amount of roofing material torn off. At another house, the attached carport was torn off, with much of it landing on the roof of the house. Several sheds were destroyed, large trees were blown down, and several power poles were snapped off. The tornado then exited Desha County 5.1 miles east-northeast of Halley and re-entered Chicot County near the Yellow Bend Port.

A cold front moved into northwest Arkansas on the morning of the 20th and lingered in the state until the night of the 21st. While the front was making its way slowly across the state, an area of low pressure arrived from the southwest. The result was heavy rain and flash flooding in the cooler air behind the front. In the warmer air ahead of the front, isolated tornadoes occurred.

Some of the larger rainfall totals for the 48 hours that included the 20th and 21st were: 7.92 inches 3.3 miles west of Carlisle (Lonoke Co.), 7.68 inches at Little Dixie (Woodruff Co.), 7.66 inches at Des Arc (Prairie Co.), 7.37 inches at Keo (Lonoke Co.), 6.71 inches at Georgetown (White Co.), 6.50 inches at Griffithville (White Co.), 6.45 inches at Augusta (Woodruff Co.), 6.29 inches at Chenal Valley (Pulaski County), 6.15 inches at DeGray Lake (Clark Co.), 6.12 inches 8.8 miles west of Little Rock (Pulaski Co.), and 6.00 inches 0.5 mile southwest of Beebe (White Co.). Numerous other stations reported amounts between 4 and 6 inches, especially in eastern, central, and southern parts of Arkansas.