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The tornado continued to move to the northwest as it left the community in ruins, reaching EF4 intensity for the first time as it entered into the city limits of Mayflower. The tornado produced heavy structural damage as it tore through the southern edge of the town, killing three people.
At least five in all, these included the Fort Smith tornado, which struck the city of Fort Smith, Arkansas. Retroactively rated a violent (F4) tornado on the modern-day Fujita scale, [ note 2 ] it was part of a tornado family that formed 60 mi (97 km ) to the southwest, [ 7 ] and struck the city around midnight, killing 55 people and injuring 113.
The term "Northwest Arkansas" is commonly used to refer to the rapidly growing cities of Benton and Washington counties in the geographic corner of the state. Northwest Arkansas, often abbreviated NWA, has become known as a cohesive region due to the efforts of the Northwest Arkansas Council, an association of community and business leaders formally organized in 1990 to promote regionalization ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Television stations in Northwest Arkansas (19 P) U. ... Arkansas, tornadoes of January 11, 1898; H.
The first tornado outbreak to be documented in the new tornado database, this deadly series of intense tornadoes struck areas from the Gulf Coast into the Ohio Valley. The strongest event was an F4 tornado that tore an 82.6-mile-path (132.9 km) near Shreveport, Louisiana , although further analysis concluded that this was likely a tornado family .
The worst tornado was an F2 twister that hit Crofton, Menominee, and St. Helena, Nebraska, killing one and injuring two. [90] Later, a brief but strong F3 tornado damaged areas east of Yankton, South Dakota. [91] The final tornado took place early the next morning, when quarter-mile wide F2 tornado struck Zearing, Iowa. [92]
An F4 tornado near Erie, Michigan on June 8, 1953. Photo courtesy of NOAA. The F4 Scottsbluff, Nebraska tornado passing the Scottsbluff airport on June 27, 1955.. This is a list of tornadoes which have been officially or unofficially labeled as F4, EF4, IF4, or an equivalent rating in the 1950s.
A narrow tornado struck eight farms, four of which incurred F3-level damage. Three people were injured, and losses totaled $45,000. [4] Operationally, this and the succeeding event were considered a single tornado with a total path length of 34 mi (55 km), [3] but a reanalysis by Thomas P. Grazulis split them into two distinct tornadoes. [4] F3