Tornado, Garland
- When
- March 5, 7:50 PM CST to 8:02 PM CST
- Where
- Garland County, Pearcy to Pleasant Hill
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 8 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Property damage
- $200,000
- Coordinates
- 34.430, -93.280
Tornado in Arkansas, March 5, 1996
An F1 tornado first touched down in the Pearcy area. A restaurant had numerous windows blown out as well as some structural damage.
Where it happened
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- Heat and drought
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The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $200,000
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 1
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.
What happened
The episode as NWS LZK wrote it up.
An F1 tornado first touched down in the Pearcy area. A restaurant had numerous windows blown out as well as some structural damage. An outdoor equipment dealership had several large doors blown off one of its buildings. Some trees were also knocked down. The tornado continued moving northeastward toward the Pleasant Hill area. A mobile home was overturned and some trees were blown down just northeast of Pearcy. In Pleasant Hill, the roof of a business was partially blown off. A church also sustained some roof damage and numerous storage buildings were either damaged or destroyed.
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 104 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 01:50 UTC.
Event by event
1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.
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.
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The same day elsewhere
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- Damaging Wind in Alabama, March 5, 1996
- Hail in Missouri, March 5, 1996
- Heavy Snow in Utah, March 5 to 6, 1996
More
Every storm in Arkansas in 1996Every state in 1996This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Arkansas, 1996Warnings in Arkansas, March 1996
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: 5548866.