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In the evening hours of April 27, 2014, a large and destructive tornado moved through several communities northwest of Little Rock, located in Arkansas.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.
Overall, the tornado remained on the ground for an hour, from 7:06 p.m. to 8:02 p.m. (0006 – 0102 UTC), and traveled along a 41.3 miles (66.5 km) path. Sixteen people lost their lives due to the tornado while 193 others were injured. [21] The 16 fatalities made this the deadliest in Arkansas since an F4 tornado killed 35 on May 15, 1968.
The 2023 Wynne–Parkin tornado was a large, deadly, and destructive rain-wrapped wedge tornado that struck the cities and communities of Wynne, Parkin, Earle, Turrell, and Drummonds in Arkansas and Tennessee on the afternoon of March 31, 2023. The tornado caused considerable damage to Wynne and significant to severe damage to areas around ...
(Reuters) -Search teams on Sunday picked through wreckage left by tornado-spawning thunderstorms that swept the U.S. Southern Plains and Ozarks, killing at least 14 people and wrecking hundreds of ...
Tornadoes slam Arkansas, shredding rooftops and tossing cars. ANDREW DeMILLO. Updated March 31, 2023 at 8:14 PM. LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — A tornado raced through Little Rock and surrounding ...
Further south into Arkansas, damaging tornadoes hit Little Rock, among other hard-hit regions of the state, on March 31. This would become the fourth-largest tornado outbreak in US history.
The tornado then crossed AR 107 into Sherwood, prompting the issuance of another tornado emergency for both Sherwood and Jacksonville. [ 1 ] [ 25 ] [ 28 ] A majority of the damage in Sherwood was rated EF1, as homes sustained heavy roof and garage damage, garden sheds were destroyed, some businesses were damaged, and numerous trees were downed.
Central Arkansas suffered "significant damage" Friday, the state’s governor announced, after meteorologists said a tornado touched down in North Little Rock, pummeling buildings and leaving at ...