Tornado, Sharp
- When
- April 5, 5:05 PM CST to 5:15 PM CST
- Where
- Sharp County, Cave City to 7 mi ENE of Cave City
- Rating
- F2
- Path length
- 6 mi
- Path width
- 150 yd
- Injuries
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Reported by
- NWS STORM SURVEY
- Coordinates
- 35.900, -91.430
Tornado in Arkansas, April 5, 1999
A strong tornado was spawned in Sharp County. The tornado developed 7 miles east-southeast of Cave City and moved northeast.
Where it happened
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The toll
- Deaths
- 0
- Injuries
- 1
- 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 strong tornado was spawned in Sharp County. The tornado developed 7 miles east-southeast of Cave City and moved northeast. Not long after touching down, the tornado reached Highway 230. A tractor trailer was thrown off of the road and destroyed. The driver of the truck was injured. Pieces of the truck were found a quarter of a mile away from the highway. The tornado then paralleled the highway, heavily damaging a 10 year old brick home 8.5 miles east of Cave City. The tornado also destroyed a trailer and a barn and damaged a mobile home. Several buildings were also damaged or destroyed. Numerous trees were uprooted. The tornado finally moved into Lawrence County (Memphis County Warning Area) before dissipating.
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 140 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 23:03 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
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Arkansas, April 5, 1999
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Kansas, April 5 to 9, 1999
- Tornadoes in Illinois, April 5, 1999
- Tornadoes and Damaging Winds in Iowa, April 5, 1999
- Tornado in Missouri, April 5, 1999
- Damaging Wind in Kentucky, April 5, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Tennessee, April 5, 1999
- Damaging Wind in Illinois, April 5, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Missouri, April 5, 1999
- Tornado in Nebraska, April 5, 1999
- Lightning Strike in Illinois, April 5, 1999
- Damaging Wind in Missouri, April 5, 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: 5694909.