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F3 tornado in Dallas County, Arkansas

Tornado May 27, 1996 · Dallas County, Arkansas

F3
Rating
41.0 mi
Whole path
440 yd
Path width
$1.9M
Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 440 yards (0.25 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.

The wider storm

The Clark County tornado moved into Dallas County about a mile south-southwest of Dalark at 315 pm CDT. The storm travelled east-northeastward and struck the town of Manning around 330 pm CDT. 16 homes in Manning were either damaged or destroyed, half of which were mobile homes. The storm continued moving northeastward and lifted 2 miles southeast of Tulip around 340 pm CDT. Damage along the remainder of the storm's path consisted of downed trees and power lines. Initial estimates place the amount of damage at around $130,000.

Began near Dalark (34.0200, -92.9000).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 5554187. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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