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The tornado, commonly known as the Mayflower tornado or Mayflower–Vilonia tornado, was part of a larger outbreak of severe weather across the central and southern United States. The tornado devastated the towns of Paron , Mayflower , Lake Conway , Vilonia and El Paso , killing sixteen people and injuring over one hundred more.
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.
The tornado the re-intensified to high EF2/low EF3 strength as it significantly damaged a power substation. The tornado then struck another chicken farm at EF3 strength, obliterating several large metal chicken houses, with severe mangling of steel trusses noted. 25,000 chickens were killed in this one location.
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]
Some of the most notorious twisters in U.S. history were wedge tornadoes, including the EF5 that leveled Joplin, Missouri, on May 22, 2011, and the El Reno tornado, which was a jaw-dropping 2.6 ...
2014 Mayflower–Vilonia tornado – Officially rated high-end EF4, though the rating was a major source of controversy, and meteorologist/civil engineer Timothy P. Marshall noted that the rating assigned was "lower-bound" and "the possibility that EF5 winds could have occurred" despite the structural flaws responsible for the EF4 rating.
Tornadoes were scattered that day until early evening, when an intense tornadic cell tracked near the Little Rock metropolitan area and a tornado emergency was declared for Vilonia, Arkansas. A 0.5-mile (0.80 km) wide EF2 tornado then caused extensive damage in Vilonia. At least four people are known to have died in the town with many more injured.
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: Snow Hill—Ayden—Winterville—Greenville, North Carolina: 1984 ...