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EF1 tornado in Faulkner County, Arkansas

Tornado March 24, 2017 · Faulkner County, Arkansas

EF1

Rating

4.3 mi

Whole path

100 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 100 yards (0.06 mi) — zoom in and the swath grows to true scale. Other tornadoes recorded nearby that day are shown faint.

What EF1 means. On the Enhanced Fujita scale, EF1 is moderate damage: roofs badly stripped, mobile homes pushed off foundations or overturned, windows broken, consistent with estimated gusts of 86–110 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 the tornado crossed into Faulkner County, the tornado caused several trees to snap or be uprooted. Additional, the tornado caused minor roofing damage and an outbuilding to collapse.

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 Cato (34.9279, -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 685205. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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