Tornado, Benton
- When
- May 26, 5:00 PM CST
- Where
- Benton County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 5.6 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 36.420, -93.830
Tornadoes and Hail in Arkansas, May 26, 1973
8 tornado, 1 hail, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
Every event with a place to put it. Tap one for its entry below.
- Tornadoes
- Tropical storms and surge
- Floods
- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 3
- Injuries
- 314
- Property damage
- $850,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 9
Deaths and injuries are direct and indirect together, as the offices filed them. Damage is property and crops in the dollars of the year, not adjusted for inflation, and only where an office estimated it.
Event by event
8 tornado, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Tornado, Benton
- When
- May 26, 5:55 PM CST
- Where
- Benton County
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.5 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Property damage
- $250
- Coordinates
- 36.200, -94.000
Tornado, Carroll
- When
- May 26, 9:25 PM CST
- Where
- Carroll County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 2 mi
- Path width
- 200 yd
- Injuries
- 2 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 36.330, -93.570
Tornado, Crawford
- When
- May 26, 9:30 PM CST
- Where
- Crawford County
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Injuries
- 23 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 35.430, -94.320
Tornado, Woodruff
- When
- May 26, 10:30 PM CST
- Where
- Woodruff County
- Rating
- F4
- Path length
- 9 mi
- Path width
- 300 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 35.270, -91.370
Tornado, Jackson
- When
- May 26, 10:45 PM CST
- Where
- Jackson County
- Rating
- F4
- Path length
- 17.3 mi
- Path width
- 300 yd
- Injuries
- 7 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 35.370, -91.270
Tornado, Poinsett
- When
- May 26, 11:00 PM CST
- Where
- Poinsett County
- Rating
- F4
- Path length
- 14.7 mi
- Path width
- 300 yd
- Injuries
- 25 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 35.530, -91.030
Tornado, Craighead
- When
- May 26, 11:15 PM CST
- Where
- Craighead County
- Rating
- F4
- Path length
- 13.8 mi
- Path width
- 300 yd
- Deaths
- 3 direct, 0 indirect
- Injuries
- 257 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 35.700, -90.870
Hail, Lawrence
- When
- May 26, 11:15 PM CST
- Where
- Lawrence County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 35.970, -90.930
What these are
- Tornado
- A violently rotating column of air in contact with the ground and extending from a thunderstorm, filed with its path, width and Fujita or Enhanced Fujita rating from the damage survey.
- Hail
- Hail three-quarters of an inch or larger, or smaller hail that caused damage, filed with the largest stone measured.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornadoes and Hail in Oklahoma, May 26, 1973
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Kansas, May 26, 1973
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Florida, May 26, 1973
- Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, May 26, 1973
- Tornadoes and Hail in Missouri, May 26, 1973
- Tornado and Hail in Mississippi, May 26, 1973
- Tornadoes in Nebraska, May 26, 1973
- Damaging Winds in Alabama, May 26, 1973
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Kentucky, May 26, 1973
- Damaging Wind in Iowa, May 26, 1973
More
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Sources
NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database, compiled from the National Weather Service’s monthly Storm Data. Complete through 2026-06; NCEI adds each month about 75 days after it ends and revises past years a few times a year. Rebuilt 2026-09-24. Each event’s entry at NCEI: 9983385, 9983386, 9983387, 9983388, 9983389, 9983390, 9983391, 9983392, 9983393.