Thunderstorm Wind, Crawford
- When
- April 4, 10:30 PM CST
- Where
- Crawford County, Van Buren
- Property damage
- $100
- Coordinates
- 35.430, -94.350
Damaging Winds in Arkansas, April 4, 1997
3 thunderstorm wind, as filed by the National Weather Service.
Where it happened
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- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
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The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 0
- Property damage
- $100
- Crop damage
- None recorded
- Events
- 3
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.
The radar
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Event by event
3 thunderstorm wind. Local standard time, as filed.
Thunderstorm Wind, Crawford
- When
- April 4, 10:45 PM CST
- Where
- Crawford County, Mountainburg
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph)
- Coordinates
- 35.630, -94.170
Thunderstorm Wind, Carroll
- When
- April 4, 11:55 PM CST
- Where
- Carroll County, 1 mi SW of Green Forest
- Measured
- 52 kt (60 mph)
- Coordinates
- 36.300, -93.470
Isolated severe thunderstorms developed in northwest Arkansas during the late evening of April 4th. Thunderstorm winds gusted to 60 miles an hour in Mountainburg and 1 mile southwest of Green Forest, and power lines were blown down in Van Buren.
What these are
- Thunderstorm Wind
- Winds from a thunderstorm of 50 knots (58 mph) or more, or lower winds that caused damage or casualties. Measured gusts are marked MG, estimated EG.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Blizzard in North Dakota, April 4 to 7, 1997
- Ice Storm in North Dakota, April 4 to 5, 1997
- Ice Storm in Minnesota, April 4 to 6, 1997
- Flash Flood in Arkansas, April 4, 1997
- Blizzard in Wyoming, April 4 to 6, 1997
- Blizzard in Nebraska, April 4 to 6, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Texas, April 4, 1997
- Tornado in Louisiana, April 4, 1997
- Tornado in Arkansas, April 4, 1997
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, April 4, 1997
- Flash Flood in Louisiana, April 4 to 5, 1997
- Damaging Wind in Louisiana, April 4, 1997
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: 5613660, 5613661, 5613662.