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EF0 tornado in Hot Spring County, Arkansas

Tornado March 24, 2017 · Hot Spring County, Arkansas

EF0

Rating

3.1 mi

Whole path

100 yd

Path width

$700K

Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 100 yards (0.06 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

The tornado started in Hot Spring County near the Saline county line. At the time it was in Hot Spring county, it was rated as a EF0 with just a few trees down.

The wider storm

A line of strong to severe thunderstorms with a few tornadoes moved through the state on the evening of March 24th and early morning of the 25th.

Began near Glen Rose (34.5024, -92.7689).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Pulaski County EF0 Garland County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 685166. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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