Arkansas, 2005Tornado in Arkansas, November 5, 2005
November 5, 2005 · NWS LZK · 1 event in 1 county or zone
1 tornado, as filed by the National Weather Service.
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- 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 forecasters said that day
The local office's own words before the first event, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.
NWS Little Rock, AR wrote its last area forecast discussion before the first event at Nov 5, 2:30 PM CST, 7 hours 29 minutes earlier.
Area forecast discussion, Nov 5, 2:30 PM CST, 7 hours 29 minutes before
AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
230 PM CST SAT NOV 5 2005
.SHORT TERM...TONIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY NIGHT
COLD FRONT CURRENTLY FROM SOUTHEAST KANSAS THROUGH CENTRAL
OKLAHOMA...WITH WARM FRONT STRETCHING ACROSS SOUTHERN MISSOURI.
STRONG CAP IN PLACE THIS AFTERNOON...WITH LOW CLOUDS GRADUALLY
BREAKING UP. AS SYSTEM MOVES NORTHEAST INTO THE OHIO VALLEY...COLD
FRONT WILL APPROACH THE STATE. CURRENT THINKING IS DUE TO THE STRONG
CAP...STORMS WILL BE SLOW TO DEVELOP...BUT ONCE THEY GET
GOING...WILL MAINLY BE IN THE NORTH AND NORTHEAST. WENT WITH CHANCE
CHANCE POPS IN NORTH...WITH SLIGHT CHANCE SOUTH AND WEST. MAIN
CONCERN WITH SEVERE STORMS IS POTENTIAL FOR DAMAGING WINDS.
AFTER FRONT MOVES THROUGH TONIGHT...HIGH PRESSURE WILL QUICKLY
FOLLOW. TEMPERATURES WILL BE A LITTLE COOLER THAN TODAY...BUT ONLY
BY 5 DEGREES SO NOT A DRASTIC CHANGE. HIGH PRESSURE WILL CONTINUE
THROUGH TUESDAY...BUT RETURN FLOW WILL BRING GULF MOISTURE BACK TO
THE STATE MONDAY INTO TUESDAY.
KEPT POPS IN FOR TUESDAY NIGHT AS BOUNDARY APPROACHES THE
STATE...WHICH WILL MOVE THROUGH DURING THE EXTENDED.
&&
.LONG TERM...WEDNESDAY THROUGH SATURDAY
DECIDED NOT TO STRAY VERY FAR FROM GOING FCST TRENDS. 12Z GFS HAS
DONE AN ABOUT FACE IN REGARDS TO THE NEXT FNTL BNDRY AT MIDWEEK AND
NOW HANGS THE FNTL BNDRY ACRS THE FA. SEVERAL UPPER WVS ARE FCST TO
EJECT OUT OF THE SWRN STATES LOW...RESULTING IN A LONGER PD OF
UNSETTLED WX.
CONSENSUS HAS BEEN TO FOLLOW ALONG WITH THE 00Z MODEL SOLUTIONS...
INDCG A MORE PROGRESSIVE PATTERN WITH THE FNT LATER NEXT WEEK.
THUS...HAVE GONE WITH SCTD POPS WED INTO EARLY THU WITH CDFNT
PUSHING THRU THE FA. HIGH PRES TO FOLLOW FROPA AND PREVAIL INTO THE
EARLY PART OF NEXT WEEKEND.
&&
.PRELIMINARY POINT TEMPS/POPS...
LITTLE ROCK AR 57 75 54 79 / 30 10 10 10
HARRISON AR 49 70 52 78 / 30 10 10 10
HOT SPRINGS AR 56 76 55 80 / 20 10 10 10
PINE BLUFF AR 60 76 55 80 / 20 10 10 10
MOUNTAIN HOME AR 50 69 51 77 / 30 10 10 10
MONTICELLO AR 61 78 56 81 / 20 10 10 10
SEARCY AR 56 73 52 78 / 30 10 10 10
MOUNT IDA AR 55 76 55 81 / 20 10 10 10
RUSSELLVILLE AR 52 74 54 79 / 30 10 10 10
&&
.LZK WATCHES/WARNINGS/ADVISORIES...
NONE.
&&
SHORT TERM...58 / LONG TERM....44
Hazardous weather outlook, Nov 5, 5:45 PM CST, 4 hours 14 minutes before
HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK...UPDATED
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
545 PM CST SAT NOV 5 2005
ARZ030-031-014-033-012-013-037-038-053-056-057-054-055-015-016-
034-062-063-052-067-066-065-064-069-068-025-005-004-007-024-003-
041-040-043-042-045-044-047-046-022-021-032-023-006-039-061100-
LOGAN-CONWAY-STONE-WHITE-NEWTON-SEARCY-SCOTT-YELL-CLARK-JEFFERSON-
ARKANSAS-HOT SPRING-GRANT-IZARD-INDEPENDENCE-WOODRUFF-DALLAS-
CLEVELAND-PIKE-CALHOUN-OUACHITA-DESHA-LINCOLN-DREW-BRADLEY-
JACKSON-BAXTER-MARION-SHARP-CLEBURNE-BOONE-MONTGOMERY-POLK-SALINE-
GARLAND-LONOKE-PULASKI-MONROE-PRAIRIE-POPE-JOHNSON-FAULKNER-
VAN BUREN-FULTON-PERRY-
545 PM CST SAT NOV 5 2005
THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR A LARGE PART OF ARKANSAS.
.DAY ONE...REST OF TONIGHT
A COLD FRONT WILL MOVE ACROSS ARKANSAS TONIGHT. SCATTERED SHOWERS
AND THUNDERSTORMS ARE EXPECTED TO DEVELOP ALONG AND AHEAD OF THE
SYSTEM TONIGHT...DIMINISHING BY EARLY SUNDAY MORNING AS THE FRONT
MOVES TOWARD THE LOUISIANA AND ARKANSAS BORDER.
THERE IS A SLIGHT RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS OVER PORTIONS OF
NORTHERN TONIGHT. THIS INCLUDES AREAS ALONG AND NORTH OF A LINE FROM
CLARKSVILLE TO RUSSELLVILLE TO NEWPORT. A FEW STORMS MAY BECOME
SEVERE WITH DAMAGING WINDS AND LARGE HAIL BEING THE MAIN THREATS.
.DAY TWO THROUGH SEVEN...SUNDAY THROUGH FRIDAY
NO HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS EXPECTED AT THIS TIME.
THE COLD FRONT WILL MOVE OUT OF THE STATE ON SUNDAY...WITH HIGH
PRESSURE ONCE AGAIN EXERTING ITS INFLUENCE. THIS WILL MEAN A RETURN
TO UNSEASONABLY WARM WEATHER...WITH HIGH TEMPERATURES APPROACHING 80
DEGREES BY MONDAY.
THE NEXT CHANCE OF SHOWERS AND THUNDERSTORMS WILL BE ON WEDNESDAY AS
ANOTHER COLD FRONT APPROACHES THE STATE. AT THIS TIME...SEVERE
THUNDERSTORMS ARE NOT EXPECTED.
.SPOTTER ACTIVATION STATEMENT...
SPOTTER ACTIVATION MAY BE REQUIRED TONIGHT OVER PORTIONS OF NORTHERN
ARKANSAS.
&&
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Tornado, Fulton
- When
- November 5, 9:59 PM CST to 10:06 PM CST
- Where
- Fulton County, 3 mi E of Moko
- Rating
- F1
- Path length
- 5.4 mi
- Path width
- 250 yd
- Injuries
- 1 direct, 0 indirect
- Reported by
- NEWSPAPER
- Coordinates
- 36.467, -91.783
A weak tornado touched down briefly in Fulton County, about 3 miles east of Moko. Estimated winds with the tornado were about 110 mph. A house had shingles off, a broken window and the porch was shifted.One person in the house sustained minor injuries from flying debris. Another house had broken windows and several outbuildings were destroyed. Farm machinery was overturned and several vehicles sustained damage. Numerous trees were downed or snapped off along the path of the tornado. The tornado was on the ground almost five and a half miles before dissipating.
- 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.
- Tornadoes and Hail in Missouri, November 5, 2005$2.0 million · F2 · 26 events
- Tornado in Missouri, November 5, 2005$75,000 · F2 · 1 event
- Tornado in Arkansas, November 5, 20053 injured · F2 · 1 event
- Flash Flood and Hail in Wisconsin, November 5, 2005$1.1 million · 0.75 in hail · 5 events
- High Wind in Washington, November 5, 20051 injured · $500,000 · 1 event
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Illinois, November 5 to 6, 2005$21,000 · 1 in hail · 25 events
- Hail and Damaging Winds in Arkansas, November 5 to 6, 2005$26,000 · 70 kt wind · 3 events
- Damaging Wind in Michigan, November 5, 20051 injured · 57 kt wind · 1 event
- High Wind in Oregon, November 5, 200587 kt wind · 8 events
- Winter Storm in Idaho, November 5 to 6, 20053 events
- Heavy Snow in Washington, November 5 to 6, 20053 events
- Hail in Missouri, November 5, 20051.75 in hail · 3 events
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: 5485483.