Tornadoes · United States · Arkansas

2006 tornadoes in Arkansas

23 tornadoes touched down in Arkansas in 2006, 16 percent below the average of the record for the state. They killed 2 people and injured 188.

2005 2007 The whole country in 2006

The rating scale

Tracks are drawn in the color of the rating. The Fujita scale rates the damage rather than measuring the wind: the speeds are what that damage is taken to imply.

F040 to 72 mph
Light damage. Surface peeled off some roofs, gutters and siding damaged, branches broken, shallow-rooted trees pushed over.
F173 to 112 mph
Moderate damage. Roofs badly stripped, mobile homes overturned or badly damaged, exterior doors lost, windows broken.
F2113 to 157 mph
Considerable damage. Roofs torn off well-built houses, frame homes shifted on their foundations, mobile homes destroyed, large trees snapped or uprooted, cars lifted off the ground.
F3158 to 206 mph
Severe damage. Whole stories of well-built houses destroyed, large buildings badly damaged, trains overturned, trees debarked, heavy cars lifted and thrown.
F4207 to 260 mph
Devastating damage. Well-built houses leveled, structures with weak foundations moved some distance, cars thrown and large missiles generated.
F5261 to 318 mph
Incredible damage. Strong frame houses swept off their foundations, car-sized missiles thrown more than 100 meters, steel-reinforced concrete badly damaged, high-rise buildings deformed.
Unrated
The survey recorded a tornado but could not put a number on it, most often because it crossed open country and damaged nothing a rating can be read from.

Every tornado in Arkansas in 2006

January 12 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
January 12	10:29 PM CST	F2	Yell	14.7	75

March 9 5 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Injuries	Damage
March 9	5:40 AM CST	F1	Lonoke	1.0	25
March 9	6:50 AM CST	F2	Woodruff	15.7	100	6	$100,000
March 9	7:33 AM CST	F0	Sevier	2.0	60
March 9	7:55 AM CST	F1	Howard	15.2	300		$10,000
March 9	8:18 AM CST	F1	Pike	8.0	50

March 11 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
March 11	11:50 PM CST	F1	Searcy	0.8	25

March 12 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
March 12	12:41 AM CST	F0	Fulton	1.5	25
March 12	10:11 PM CST	F2	Benton	8.0	250	$10 million
March 12	10:50 PM CST	F1	Carroll to MO	8.0	200	$40,000

April 2 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 2	4:59 PM CDT	F1	Sharp	9.5	100			$100,000
April 2	5:37 PM CDT	F3	Randolph to MO	77.0	880	2	177	$86 million
April 2	6:00 PM CDT	F2	White	6.3	100
April 2	6:29 PM CDT	F3	Woodruff	38.0	500		5	$5.0 million

April 6 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 6	9:55 PM CDT	F0	Newton	1.7	50

May 10 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 10	10:03 AM CDT	F0	Dallas	3.5	25

September 21 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
September 21	8:14 PM CDT	F1	Polk	2.2	40

September 22 5 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
September 22	5:12 PM CDT	F0	Marion	0.3	25
September 22	5:35 PM CDT	F0	Stone	5.2	25
September 22	6:15 PM CDT	F1	Izard	3.7	40
September 22	6:22 PM CDT	F2	Sharp	14.0	100	$2,000
September 22	6:23 PM CDT	F1	Izard	8.0	50

November 10 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
November 10	4:59 PM CST	F1	Fulton	13.3	100

Crossed into Arkansas

Tornadoes that touched down in a neighboring state and ran into Arkansas. They are counted under the state they began in.

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
March 12	9:37 PM CST	F3	Delaware, OK to AR	25.0	700		12	$5.8 million

Nearby

Every tornado in Arkansas since 1950 Warnings in force in Arkansas The live radar over Arkansas

What this means

Ratings are the survey's, read off the damage rather than measured; the rating scale is above. Tornado counts rise through the record as reporting improved, so a year in the 1950s is not comparable with one today except for the strongest tornadoes, which were always noticed.

Sources

NOAA Storm Prediction Center tornado database, 1950-2025, the official record kept by NOAA's Storm Prediction Center.