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EF2 tornado in Saline County, Arkansas

Tornado March 24, 2017 · Saline County, Arkansas

EF2

Rating

3.1 mi

Whole path

150 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 150 yards (0.09 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF2 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF2 is considerable damage: roofs torn off well-built houses, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted, consistent with estimated gusts of 111–135 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

After crossing into Saline County, the tornado strengthened and caused EF2 damage. Some buildings were damaged. An outbuilding suffered severe damage... with a roof of a new home being ripped off. A roof was nearly completely blown off a newly constructed house.

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 (34.5035, -92.7678).

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 685172. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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