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EF0 tornado in Pulaski County, Arkansas

Tornado October 2, 2014 · Pulaski County, Arkansas

EF0

Rating

12.7 mi

Whole path

300 yd

Path width

$140K

Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 300 yards (0.17 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 knocked down trees and power lines. One house in the Wampoo area suffered considerable damage. In that same area, thousands of corn husks were blown off farm fields and were piled up in roadside ditches. The tornado exited Pulaski County 2.9 miles east of Wampoo and entered Lonoke County 3.1 miles south of Keo.

The wider storm

A cold front rushed across Arkansas, preceded by a line of thunderstorms, during the late afternoon and evening of the 2nd. Very gusty winds occurred with the storms, resulting in numerous reports of wind damage. There were two weak tornadoes, as well.

Began near Bredlow Corner (34.5317, -92.1162).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Prairie County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 538949. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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