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EF0 tornado in Yell County, Arkansas

Tornado April 26, 2017 · Yell County, Arkansas

EF0

Rating

0.5 mi

Path length

50 yd

Path width

$200K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 50 yards (0.03 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

A supercell produced an EF0 tornado, which was on the ground for approximately 0.5 miles. Most resultant damage occurred in the form of downed trees. There were also 2 high voltage electric transmission towers that were heavily damaged by the tornado.

The wider storm

An active April continued late on the 25th as a storm system intensified in the Plains. Thunderstorms erupted in central and eastern Oklahoma, and plowed into northwest Arkansas between 1230 am and 100 am CDT on the 26th.

Began near Chickalah (35.1855, -93.2909).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 695701. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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