Tornadoes and Hail in Arkansas, April 14 to 15, 2011

A funnel cloud was sighted.

Trees and power lines were blown down.

Chicken houses were damaged and a large tree was blown down.

A house had windows blown out and an awning ripped off. Ironwork in the yard of the house was bent. Limbs were blown down.

The tornado destroyed a warehouse used by a snack food company. Numerous trees were blown down, with one of the trees falling on a house. A barn was damaged.

Trees were blown down on a house and vehicle on the south side of Mena.

Power lines and poles were blown down in Mena, leaving much of the city without power.

The tornado destroyed a barn and damaged two pieces of farming equipment. A number of trees were blown down. The damage path was entirely on private property, well away from any public roads.

Several trees were blown down.

A tornado destroyed a mobile home and blew down numerous trees.

Utility poles were blown down.

A mobile home was blown over and destroyed. Trees and power lines were blown down. Some houses were damaged.

Trees were blown down on Arkansas Highway 27.

Trees and power lines were blown down. A trained spotter estimated winds near 80 mph.

Numerous trees were blown down.

Trees and power lines were blown down, and there was minor structural damage.

A roof was blown off a business in Batesville.

A spotter estimated wind gusts at 60 mph.

Trees were blown down, with one landing on a barn. Roofs were blown off a barn and a shed. The tornado then moved into Hot Springs Village, where additional trees were blown down. One of these trees landed on a house. The tornado exited Garland County northwest of the incorporated portion of Fountain Lake and entered the Saline County portion of Hot Springs Village.

This tornado exited Garland County northwest of the incorporated part of Fountain Lake and moved into Saline County in Hot Springs Village. In the Village, many trees were blown down and a number of these fell on houses. After leaving the Village, the tornado blew the porch off a house and damaged the roof, and blew down hundreds of trees.

A large tree fell on a house in the Overview Subdivision.

A large barn was destroyed, with debris being blown across a field.

Trees were blown down across the city.

Trees were blown down on U.S. Highway 67.

Several houses and barns were damaged.

Numerous large trees were uprooted or snapped. A barn was destroyed, and the barn's roof was thrown more than 100 yards. Several houses were missing shingles, and one of the houses was missing nearly 50% of its shingles.

Several trees were blown down.

Power lines were blown down, leaving part of Malvern without power.

A house on U.S. Highway 167 had its roof and chimney damaged. Ironically, this same house had been damaged by a tornado 30 years ago. A mobile home had its roof and porch blown off. Numerous trees and power lines were blown down. Several houses suffered damage from falling trees. The roof of a country club was blown off, allowing water to pour inside and ruin a new wood floor that had just been installed. The tornado exited Saline County northeast of Lakeside and continued into Pulaski County west-northwest of Woodson.

A 24 year-old man and his 18-month old daughter were killed when a tree fell into their mobile home. They were in a bedroom at the time, and that is the end of the mobile home that the tree crashed into.

This tornado's track was entirely within the city limits of Little Rock. It touched down southwest of the intersection of W. Markham and John Barrow Rd. and ended in the Sherrill Heights neighborhood. While there was some shingle damage to houses, the vast majority of the damage was due to trees falling on houses and vehicles. The Leawood subdivision and The Heights were hard-hit. A Red Cross survey indicated two houses were destroyed, 36 suffered major damage, 49 had minor damage, and 37 others were affected. As of 7:00 AM CDT on the 15th, the Little Rock Police Department reported more than 40 streets blocked by fallen trees. A 34 year-old woman and her 7 year-old son were killed on Cynthia Dr. when a huge tree fell into the bedroom of their house. The root system of the tree was so large that it lifted a shed off the ground. On the same block, another huge tree was uprooted and the tree pulled natural gas lines out of the ground as it fell.

Empty chicken houses were damaged. A barn roof was blown off. Roads were blocked by fallen trees.

A tornado downed trees and power lines before tracking into an industrial park at the Port of Little Rock, where the worst damage occurred. A number of power poles were knocked down, one industrial building had damage to its walls, and another industrial building suffered roof damage.

This tornado exited Saline County northeast of Lakeside and entered Pulaski County west-northwest of Woodson. In Pulaski County, many trees were blown down, with one of the trees falling on a house. Shingles were blown off a number of houses.

Ten large trees were blown down.

Numerous trees were blown down at Fort Roots.

Trees and power lines were blown down along Interstate 530.

Numerous trees were blown down in the Cherry Hill, Park, Hill, Lakewood, and Heritage Park neighborhoods of North Little Rock. A number of the trees fell on houses and power lines.

A tornado touched down near the Arkansas River levee and tracked through the Lands End Plantation. On the plantation, the trailer of a tractor-trailer truck was overturned, an old cotton gin was destroyed, and a 150 year-old pecan orchard was severely damaged. After leaving the plantation, numerous large trees were blown down and outbuildings were damaged. A mobile home was destroyed and its occupant was badly injured. Another mobile home was knocked off its foundation. A 250-gallon propane tank was ripped from its foundation and came unplugged. The tornado exited Pulaski County north-northeast of Wampoo and continued into Lonoke County west-southwest of Willow Belle.

Hail fell in Lakewood Village.

This tornado exited Pulaski County north-northeast of Wampoo and entered Lonoke County west-southwest of Willow Belle. In Lonoke County, most of the tornado's track was across open farm fields. A few trees were blown down.

A 56 year-old man was killed when a large tree fell into a recreational vehicle in which the man was staying. A nearby car was also damaged by the tree.

Trees were blown down along Interstate 530 north of Dixon Rd.

Fallen trees blocked River Rd.

Power poles were snapped in half.

A tornado destroyed 51 large steel power transmission towers. These towers carried 500 kilovolt transmission lines. For the most part, the towers fell into open farm fields, but one fell into a pond on a fish farm. The power cables that fell with the towers blocked a number of roads, including Arkansas Highway 31. Power poles, power lines, and trees were blown down as well.

Many trees were blown down in Lonoke, and a number of houses were damaged by falling trees.

Large limbs were blown down on the campus of Harding University.

A storm spotter estimated winds of 60 mph.

A 6 year-old boy was killed when a tree more than 6 feet in diameter fell into a house. The boy's parents and a sibling suffered minor injuries.

Trees were blown down.

Trees were blown down.

Some trees were blown down.

Numerous trees and power lines were blown down.

Trees and power lines were blown down. Large signs of several businesses were blown down.

Power lines were blown down in McCrory.

Trees were blown down in Monticello.

Trees were blown down and there was minor damage to a gas station.