Tornado, Arkansas
- When
- May 30, 12:54 PM CST
- Where
- Arkansas County, Almyra
- Rating
- F0
- Path length
- 0.1 mi
- Path width
- 25 yd
- Reported by
- EMERGENCY MANAGER
- Coordinates
- 34.400, -91.400
Tornado in Arkansas, May 30, 1999
A weak tornado briefly touched down near Almyra in Arkansas County. The tornado caused no damage.
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 briefly touched down near Almyra in Arkansas County. The tornado caused no damage.
The radar
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
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
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- Lightning Strike in Texas, May 30, 1999
- Tornado and Hail in Nebraska, May 30, 1999
- Tornadoes and Hail in Texas, May 30, 1999
- Hail in Kansas, May 30, 1999
- Damaging Winds in Kansas, May 30, 1999
- Damaging Wind in Florida, May 30, 1999
- Damaging Wind in Ohio, May 30, 1999
- Tornado and Damaging Wind in Florida, May 30, 1999
- Tornado and Flash Flood in Kansas, May 30 to 31, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Kansas, May 30, 1999
- Hail and Damaging Wind in Kansas, May 30 to 31, 1999
More
Every storm in Arkansas in 1999Every state in 1999This day in weather historyThe tornado archive for Arkansas, 1999Warnings in Arkansas, May 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: 5697697.