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F3 tornado in Randolph County, Arkansas

Tornado April 2, 2006 · Randolph County, Arkansas

Rating

8.0 mi

Path length

300 yd

Path width

$1.0M

Damage as recorded

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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 F3 means. This tornado was rated on Fujita’s original scale, used until 2007. F3 meant severe damage: whole stories of well-built houses destroyed, large buildings badly damaged, trains overturned; the scale paired it with winds of 158–206 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

A tornado began 3 miles south of Pocahontas and tracked east into Greene County. In Shannon, three businesses and five homes were destroyed. Another two businesses and two homes had major damage. Eighteen other homes had minor damage. The tornado produced F1 type damage in Randolph County.

Began near Pocahontas (36.2000, -91.3333).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

F3 Greene County F3 Cross County F3 Crittenden County F0 Lawrence County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5506239. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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