Tornado, Searcy
- When
- May 7, 1:25 AM CST
- Where
- Searcy County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 2.7 mi
- Path width
- 150 yd
- Property damage
- $250,000
- Coordinates
- 35.900, -92.630
Tornadoes and Hail in Arkansas, May 7, 1973
3 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
- 0
- Injuries
- 2
- Property damage
- $300,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 4
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
3 tornado, 1 hail. Local standard time, as filed.
Hail, Marion
- When
- May 7, 1:00 PM CST
- Where
- Marion County
- Measured
- 1.75 in hail
- Coordinates
- 36.300, -92.600
Tornado, Baxter
- When
- May 7, 2:05 PM CST
- Where
- Baxter County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 2 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 36.470, -92.380
Tornado, Poinsett
- When
- May 7, 6:45 PM CST
- Where
- Poinsett County
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 4.7 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Injuries
- 2 direct, 0 indirect
- Property damage
- $25,000
- Coordinates
- 35.600, -90.500
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 Missouri, May 7, 1973
- Tornadoes in Illinois, May 7, 1973
- Tornado and Damaging Winds in Louisiana, May 7, 1973
- Tornado in Indiana, May 7, 1973
- Tornado in Alabama, May 7, 1973
- Damaging Winds in Tennessee, May 7, 1973
- Tornadoes in Iowa, May 7, 1973
- Damaging Wind in Texas, May 7, 1973
- Hail in Kansas, May 7, 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: 9983364, 9983365, 9983366, 9983367.