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EF1 tornado in Grant County, Arkansas

Tornado April 10, 2008 · Grant County, Arkansas

EF1

Rating

15.1 mi

Whole path

175 yd

Path width

$30K

Damage as recorded

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

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The path drawn at its surveyed width of 175 yards (0.10 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

A tornado destroyed a barn, a shed, a cattle shed, and a covered pavilion at a cemetery. Four cows and a donkey were killed. Dozens of trees were snapped off or blown down. The tornado exited Grant County, north of Ico, and moved into Saline County, south of East End.

The wider storm

Early on the 10th, there was widespread heavy rain in northern and western Arkansas. A weather system in Texas dragged a cold front toward the region, with a severe weather outbreak across Arkansas.

Began near Prattsville (34.3459, -92.5056).

Other tornadoes from the same storm system

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

EF1 Sharp County

Source: NOAA Storm Events Database, event 96308. Narratives are written by the National Weather Service forecast office that issued the report.

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