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EF0 tornado in Prairie County, Arkansas

Tornado June 13, 2018 · Prairie County, Arkansas

EF0

Rating

1.0 mi

Path length

20 yd

Path width

$5K

Damage as recorded

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 20 yards (0.01 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 weak EF-0 tornado was observed yesterday in far northeast Prairie County. The landspout tornado lasted for about 14 minutes, moving very slowly to the southwest. The only damage noted was to a small field irrigation pump station.

The wider storm

Ahead of the front, storms became widespread over the southern half of the state on the 13th. There were numerous instances of severe weather, with mainly tree damage reported at multiple locations.

There was also a weak tornado (the 25th of the year in Arkansas) witnessed between Des Arc and Little Dixie (both in Prairie County). The tornado (rated EF0) tracked one mile and was on the ground for fourteen minutes. The only damage was to a pumping station in a field. This was not a typical springtime tornado associated with a mesocyclone (a circulation that extends thousands of feet into the atmosphere). Instead, this landspout was shallow and mostly below the cloud base. Two days later, another landspout was reported five miles west of Wynne (Cross County).

Began near Little Dixie (35.0000, -91.3900).

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 768309. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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