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F0 tornado in Franklin County, Arkansas

Tornado November 23, 2001 · Franklin County, Arkansas

Rating

42.3 mi

Whole path

100 yd

Path width

Death

Injuries

$2.0M

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Franklin County → Franklin County → Franklin County → Johnson County → Johnson County → Newton 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 F0 means. This tornado was rated on Fujita’s original scale, used until 2007. F0 meant light damage: shingles and siding peeled, gutters torn, branches broken; the scale paired it with winds of 40–72 mph, figures later judged too high, especially toward the top of the scale, and revised downward in the Enhanced Fujita scale. Ratings then, as now, came from the damage.

What the National Weather Service wrote

This is the segment of the tornado that briefly exited Franklin County as it crossed a corner of Logan County and then returned into Franklin County after crossing the Arkansas River. It dissipated as it entered Denning due to an intense RFD wind coming around a storm to its north.

Began near Denning (35.3833, -93.8333).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

F1 Franklin County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5274605. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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