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The EF4 tornado first struck the recently built Vilonia Middle School, destroying the top floor and causing most walls to collapse. [14] With winds estimated as high as 190 mph (310 km/h) and the circulation spanning 3 ⁄ 4 mi (1.2 km), [ 20 ] the tornado moved through the town center.
In the evening hours of April 27, 2014, a large and destructive wedge [1] tornado would move through several communities northwest of Little Rock, located in Arkansas.Part of a larger outbreak of severe weather, the tornado would devastate the towns of Paron, Mayflower, Lake Conway, Vilonia and El Paso, killing sixteen people and inuring over one hundred more.
The first tornado of the outbreak to cause more than one death was a long-tracked, high-end EF2 wedge tornado that struck the small town of Vilonia in Faulkner County, Arkansas, around 7:30 p.m. CDT (00:30 UTC) on April 25. [78]
That figure is inflated somewhat by 2011, when one of the costliest and deadliest tornado outbreaks ever recorded claimed the lives of at least 553 people, including more than 150 in one Missouri ...
As the outbreak developed on April 25, numerous tornadoes touched down across Texas and Arkansas, including an EF3 tornado near Hot Springs Village, Arkansas that caused significant damage and killed one person and a long-track EF2 tornado in the Vilonia, Arkansas area that killed four people and injured 16 others while staying down for over an ...
On April 27, 2014, in the late evening hours, a violent EF4 tornado passed through Mayflower and continued into Vilonia shortly before 7:50 p.m. (0050 UTC). 16 people were killed, several homes in one subdivision were swept clean off their foundations, a 15-ton fertilizer tank was thrown ¾ of a mile and several businesses were damaged or destroyed, including the new Vilonia Intermediate ...
Mayflower—Vilonia, Arkansas: 2014 April 27: 16 193 EF4 2014 Mayflower–Vilonia tornado: Tanner, Alabama (#2)—Manchester, Tennessee: 1974 April 3: 16 190 F5 Grazulis reported 22 deaths and 250 injuries. This was the second F5 tornado to pass through Tanner during the 1974 Super Outbreak. (Grazulis, p. 1,160) 1974 Tanner tornadoes
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