Tornado in Arkansas, July 29, 2000

Name: Tornado in Arkansas, July 29, 2000
Start: 2000-07-29T14:10
End: 2000-07-29T14:12
Location: Arkansas

July 29, 2000 · NWS LZK · 1 event in 1 county or zone

1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.

Where it happened

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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.

The radar

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 140 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 20:09 UTC.

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Event by event

1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.

Tornado, Sharp

When: July 29, 2:10 PM CST to 2:12 PM CST
Where: Sharp County, 3 mi E of Cave City
Rating: F0
Path length: 1 mi
Path width: 50 yd
Reported by: NWS STORM SURVEY
Coordinates: 35.933, -91.500

A weak tornado was spawned in southern Sharp County , or from 3 to miles 4 miles east of Cave City close to Highway 230. One house sustained significant roof damage, with minor roof damage to three other houses. Two small farm sheds were destroyed, and a chicken house suffered some foundation damage and lost some of its tin roof. Several trees were also blown down.

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

Every storm in Arkansas in 2000 Every state in 2000 This day in weather history The tornado archive for Arkansas, 2000 Warnings in Arkansas, July 2000

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: 5153332.