Tornado, Stone
- When
- April 3, 4:35 PM CST to 4:37 PM CST
- Where
- Stone County, Ben to 1 mi NE of Ben
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 50 yd
- Injuries
- 2 direct, 0 indirect
- Reported by
- NWS STORM SURVEY
- Coordinates
- 35.720, -91.980
Tornado in Arkansas, April 3, 1999
A weak tornado was spawned in southeast Stone County around Ben. destroying a few sheds and outbuildings.
Where it happened
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- Wind
- Hail
- Winter weather
- Heat and drought
- Cold
- Fire, smoke and dust
- Marine and coastal
- Other
The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 2
- Property damage
- None recorded
- 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.
A weak tornado was spawned in southeast Stone County around Ben. The tornado developed less than a mile southwest of town...destroying a few sheds and outbuildings. A few trees were also blown down. A witness saw the tornado pulling water from a pond. Two minor injuries were reported. The tornado dissipated about a quarter mile northeast of town.
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 102 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 22:35 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.
After NWS Directive 10-1605, the rules offices file Storm Data by.
The same day elsewhere
- Tornado in Louisiana, April 3, 1999
- Tornado in Louisiana, April 3, 1999
- Ice Storm in Nebraska, April 3, 1999
- Tornado in Louisiana, April 3, 1999
- Tornado in Louisiana, April 3, 1999
- Tornado in Louisiana, April 3, 1999
- Flash Flood in Missouri, April 3, 1999
- Winter Storm in California, April 3 to 4, 1999
- Tornadoes and Flash Flooding in Texas, April 3 to 26, 1999
- High Wind in California, April 3, 1999
- Flood and Hail in Illinois, April 3, 1999
- Avalanche in Alaska, April 3, 1999
More
Every storm in Arkansas in 1999Every state in 1999This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Arkansas, 1999Warnings in Arkansas, April 1999
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: 5696639.