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One of the tornadoes touched down west of Jonesboro before hitting the Craighead County city itself at around 10 PM CDT. The tornado caught most residents by surprise since most of the warning systems failed and killed at least 34. [3] One more person was killed in neighboring Jackson County. The tornado was the deadliest in Arkansas since an ...
A large tornado was confirmed in Jonesboro, Arkansas, on Saturday, March 28. The tornado caused damage to several structures, according to reports from KAIT channel 8.Buildings, including the mall ...
Jonesboro (/ ˈ dʒ oʊ n z b ʌ r ə /) is a city located on Crowley's Ridge in the northeastern corner of the U.S. State of Arkansas. Jonesboro is one of two county seats of Craighead County. In 2023, the city had an estimated population of 80,560, [4] making it the fifth-most populous city in Arkansas.
Homes were leveled and swept away in both towns. Two F4 tornadoes struck Arkansas. The first destroyed much of Oil Trough, killing 7 people and leaving most buildings in town with some form of damage. The second F4 tornado struck Tuckerman, Jonesboro, and Nettleton, killing 35 people. There were 164 homes destroyed in Jonesboro.
Early estimates suggested that the tornado family—identified by some media outlets as a "Quad-State tornado", due to the storm's long track and similarity to the 219-mile (352 km) Tri-State tornado of 1925—might have cut a path of up to 250 miles (400 km) across the affected areas, making it the longest-tracked tornado in history.
Storyful Viral (YouTube), March 29, 2020, Dramatic Footage Shows Tornado Ripping Through Jonesboro, Arkansas. Tornado Trackers (YouTube), Oct. 8, 2016, Hurricane Matthew - Melbourne & Jacksonville, FL
Throughout the evening hours of December 10, 2021, a large and destructive tornado, sometimes referred to as the 2021 Tri-State tornado, [1] the 2021 Leachville tornado, [2] or the 2021 Monette tornado, [3] struck areas in and around the cities and communities of Monette and Leachville in Arkansas, Braggadocio and Hayti in Missouri, and Tiptonville and Samburg in Tennessee, killing eight ...
0–9. Tornado outbreak of April 1880; Tornado outbreak of June 5–6, 1916; Tornado outbreak sequence of May 25 – June 1, 1917; Tornado outbreak of April 9, 1919