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EF2 tornado in Pulaski County, Arkansas

Tornado March 24, 2017 · Pulaski County, Arkansas

EF2

Rating

4.3 mi

Whole path

75 yd

Path width

Injuries

$460K

Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 75 yards (0.04 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

The tornado touched down just south of the Pulaski/Faulkner County line, south of Frenchman Mountain Road around Lowridge road. This tornado destroyed 4 mobile homes and damaged others. 6 People were injured, with 3 people being hospitalized.

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 Olmstead (34.9262, -92.2479).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF2 Hot Spring County EF0 Garland County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 685204. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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