EF1 tornado, Bard to Schug, Arkansas, June 13, 2011

1. EF065 to 85 mph

   Light damage. Surface peeled off some roofs, gutters and siding damaged, branches broken, shallow-rooted trees pushed over.

2. EF186 to 110 mphthis tornado

   Moderate damage. Roofs badly stripped, mobile homes overturned or badly damaged, exterior doors lost, windows broken.

3. EF2111 to 135 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.

4. EF3136 to 165 mph

   Severe damage. Whole stories of well-built houses destroyed, large buildings badly damaged, trains overturned, trees debarked, heavy cars lifted and thrown.

5. EF4166 to 200 mph

   Devastating damage. Well-built houses leveled, structures with weak foundations moved some distance, cars thrown and large missiles generated.

6. EF5over 200 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.

7. 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.

Rating

EF1

Date

June 13, 2011

Touchdown

12:10 PM CDT (17:10 UTC)

Lifted

12:15 PM CDT (17:15 UTC)

On the ground

5 minutes

Path length

3.3 miles (5.4 km)

Path width

150 yards (137 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

Property damage

$120,000

County

Greene County

Touchdown point

36.054, -90.421

Lift-off point

36.010, -90.395

Record number

1106131110-01

A mesoscale convective complex developed over Southwest Missouri during the early morning hours of June 13th, 2011. The remnants of the complex moved into the Mid-South during the late morning into the afternoon hours. Additional thunderstorms developed along old outflow boundaries of the complex. Some of these thunderstorms became severe and produced large hail, damaging winds, and one tornado.

A tornado touched down just north of U.S. Highway 412, about 4 miles east of Paragould. The tornado overturned a semi-truck on Highway 412. Two homes, one business and one barn on the south side of the highway sustained roof damage. Windows were also blown out. The tornado continued on a south-southeast path and caused severe damage to a single wide mobile home along County Road 932. The entire roof was blown off and more than half of the walls were knocked down. A second single wide mobile home along County Road 905 sustained partial roof damage. A business size metal storage building along County Road 905 sustained significant roof damage and a steel carport was destroyed. Sheet metal from the storage building was found in cornfields up to a mile away on the track. Several trees were uprooted and branches were knocked down all along the track. The tornado lifted in a corn field, a quarter mile east of County Road 932.

From NOAA NCEI's Storm Events Database, the narrative the local forecast office wrote for Storm Data.

9 minutes of warning. NWS MEG issued a tornado warning for this county at 17:01 UTC, 9 minutes before the tornado touched down, in force until 17:30 UTC.

The county was under a severe thunderstorm watch, issued at 15:09 UTC and running to 21:00 UTC.

Every warning and watch covering the touchdown point that day, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service products. Lead time is measured from the issue of the warning in force to the touchdown time in the database, both of which were recorded to the minute by different people.

The Storm Prediction Center had this point in a Slight Risk, with a 0.02 chance of a tornado within 25 miles. The outlook in force was issued at 16:31 UTC.

SPC's Day 1 convective outlook as it stood when the tornado began, read at the touchdown point. The same archive is on the radar archive.

The radiosonde launches on either side of the tornado, from the nearest station that was launching then, drawn and analyzed the way Storm Lab does: the same diagram, the same parcel and shear definitions SPC's mesoanalysis uses.

The Memphis radar (KNQA), 90 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 17:10 UTC.

Open the radar archive at this moment, over the track

Reflectivity and velocity, decoded from the Level II archive in the browser. Volumes take a few seconds to open the first time.

Local storm reports within 60 km of the path, in the three hours either side.

From the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service local storm reports.

The live radar over the trackEvery 2011 tornado in ArkansasEvery tornado in Arkansas since 1950Warnings in force in Arkansas nowThe forecast where you are

2 more were confirmed in the United States that day.

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.

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