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F2 tornado in Benton County, Arkansas

Tornado March 12, 2006 · Benton County, Arkansas

Rating

8.0 mi

Path length

250 yd

Path width

$10.0M

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 250 yards (0.14 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

The supercell cycled again and produced a third tornado that moved through the southern portion of Bentonville and Little Flock damaging or destroying 125 homes.

Began near Bentonville (36.4833, -93.6167).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

2 more tornadoes the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

F3 Benton County F1 Carroll County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5493654. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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