Tornado in Arkansas, May 12, 2000

Name: Tornado in Arkansas, May 12, 2000
Start: 2000-05-12T23:20
End: 2000-05-12T23:34
Location: Arkansas

May 12, 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), 90 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the first event began at 05:21 UTC.

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Event by event

1 tornado. Local standard time, as filed.

Tornado, Woodruff

When: May 12, 11:20 PM CST to 11:34 PM CST
Where: Woodruff County, 3 mi NW of Gregory
Rating: F1
Path length: 8.8 mi
Path width: 100 yd
Reported by: PARK/FOREST SERVICE
Coordinates: 35.183, -91.367

A weak tornado affected parts of western Woodruff County. The tornado tracked from 3 miles northwest of Gregory to about 2 miles northwest of Wiville. The tornado mainly caused tree damage, with trees either broken off or uprooted. There was some minor structural damage, with minor roof damage at a house and some tin removed from a barn.

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, May 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: 5147754.