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EF1 tornado in Greene County, Arkansas

Tornado March 28, 2020 · Greene County, Arkansas

EF1
Rating
3.0 mi
Path length
100 yd
Path width
$300K
Damage as recorded
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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

This tornado developed south of U.S. Highway 412 and west of County Road 934. The tornado overturned a center pivot irrigation system. As it crossed Highway 412, it damaged an industrial building and a grain bin. West of Highway 119, the tornado damaged trees, storage buildings, and a mobile home. The last damage was observed to trees along Highway 119. Peak winds were estimated at 90 mph.

The wider storm

A low pressure system moved across the midwest with a trailing cold front stretched south into Arkansas. As the cold front tracked eastward storms developed across central and eastern Arkansas during the late afternoon of March 28, 2020. Increasing instability combined with a good deal of wind shear led to the development of supercells across eastern Arkansas along with a strong tornado near Jonesboro, Arkansas, and another weaker tornado in Greene County, Arkansas. Supercells eventually formed into a line along the Mississippi River and then moved across the remainder of the Mid-South producing wind damage and large hail.

Began near Bard (36.0500, -90.3808).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

1 more tornado the National Weather Service filed under this storm episode.

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 882820. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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