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F2 tornado in Lonoke County, Arkansas

Tornado October 18, 2004 · Lonoke County, Arkansas

Rating

19.0 mi

Whole path

300 yd

Path width

$12.2M

Damage as recorded

NOAA records this tornado county by county. Its path ran through Lonoke County → Prairie 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 F2 means. This tornado was rated on Fujita’s original scale, used until 2007. F2 meant considerable damage: roofs torn off well-built houses, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted; the scale paired it with winds of 113–157 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

An F2 tornado touched down in Lonoke County southeast of Seaton Dump and moved to the east. Damage along the path of the tornado consisted of a carport blown 300 yards into an open farm field and the tin roof blown off a building. Numerous power poles were either snapped off or knocked down. The tornado eventually moved into Prairie County.

Began near Seaton Dump (34.5833, -91.7000).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5426939. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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