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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.
Tornado outbreak of June 5–6, 1916; Tornado outbreak sequence of May 25 – June 1, 1917; Tornado outbreak of April 9, 1919; April 1924 tornado outbreak; Tornado outbreak of May 1927; Tornado outbreak of April 12, 1945; Tornado outbreak of March 26–27, 1950; Tornado outbreak of February 13, 1952; Tornado outbreak of March 21–22, 1952
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 ...
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.
[nb 2] The worst of the outbreak was a deadly, devastating and violent (estimated) F4 tornado that tore though Warren, Arkansas. Part of a multi-state family, the tornado killed at least 55 people, [2] a majority of the deaths in the outbreak, and is now tied with the Fort Smith tornado from 1898 as the deadliest in Arkansas history. [3]
The first and most destructive of the tornadoes was a violent F4 tornado touched down on the eastern bank of the Red River in Bossier City, Louisiana, at approximately 1:50 a.m. CST. The tornado produced a path up to .5 miles (0.8 km) wide and nearly 4 miles (6.4 km) long through the heart of Bossier City.
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]
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