Tornado, White
- When
- February 6, 11:05 PM CST to 11:07 PM CST
- Where
- White County, Beebe to 1 mi NE of Beebe
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 1 mi
- Path width
- 100 yd
- Reported by
- NWS STORM SURVEY
- Coordinates
- 35.080, -91.900
Tornado in Arkansas, February 6, 1999
A weak tornado was spawned on the north side of Beebe close to the intersection of Lemon Street and Highway 367. In that area, a truck garage was destroyed and a truck was overturned.
Where it happened
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- 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
- 0
- 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 on the north side of Beebe close to the intersection of Lemon Street and Highway 367. In that area, a truck garage was destroyed and a truck was overturned. Trees were also downed in the area. Farther northeast, the tornado caused some minor roof damage at a mobile home park...with a couple of mobile homes shifting on their foundations. Not far from the mobile home park, a small shed was thrown and was destroyed.
The radar
The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 43 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 05:07 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
- Avalanche in Colorado, February 6, 1999
- Avalanche in California, February 6, 1999
- Tornado in Arkansas, February 6, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Oklahoma, February 6, 1999
- Flash Flooding in Missouri, February 6 to 7, 1999
- Flash Flooding and Hail in Oklahoma, February 6, 1999
- High Wind in Nevada, February 6, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Texas, February 6 to 11, 1999
- High Wind in California, February 6 to 7, 1999
- Winter Storm in Idaho, February 6 to 7, 1999
- High Wind in Nevada, February 6, 1999
- Flash Flood and Damaging Winds in Arkansas, February 6, 1999
More
Every storm in Arkansas in 1999Every state in 1999This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Arkansas, 1999Warnings in Arkansas, February 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: 5688382.