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2024 tornadoes in Arkansas

48 tornadoes touched down in Arkansas in 2024, 75 percent above the average of the record for the state. They killed 5 people and injured 18.

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The rating scale

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

EF065 to 85 mph
Light damage. Surface peeled off some roofs, gutters and siding damaged, branches broken, shallow-rooted trees pushed over.
EF186 to 110 mph
Moderate damage. Roofs badly stripped, mobile homes overturned or badly damaged, exterior doors lost, windows broken.
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.
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.
EF4166 to 200 mph
Devastating damage. Well-built houses leveled, structures with weak foundations moved some distance, cars thrown and large missiles generated.
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.
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 2024

February 9 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
February 9	6:46 PM CST	EF1	Saline	2.5	500

March 14 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
March 14	7:57 PM CDT	EF2	Garland	8.5	1,000

April 1 2 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
April 1	12:33 AM CDT	EF1	Benton	2.8	550
April 1	12:35 AM CDT	EF1	Benton	2.4	300			$40,000

April 28 3 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
April 28	7:37 PM CDT	EF1	Lafayette	0.8	275	$50,000
April 28	7:43 PM CDT	EF1	Lafayette	1.4	150	$50,000
April 28	10:15 PM CDT	Unrated	Carroll	2.1	75

May 5 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 5	6:45 PM CDT	EF0	Sevier	0.5	20			$500

May 7 7 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
May 7	2:43 AM CDT	EF1	Crawford	5.7	900	$30,000
May 7	2:43 AM CDT	EF1	Crawford	9.2	1,100	$500,000
May 7	2:48 AM CDT	EF1	Crawford	0.6	100	$50,000
May 7	2:55 AM CDT	EF1	Washington	1.8	150	$35,000
May 7	2:55 AM CDT	EF1	Franklin	3.9	1,200	$30,000
May 7	3:08 AM CDT	EF1	Washington	2.8	550	$30,000
May 7	12:30 AM CDT	EF2	Garland	12.2	600

May 24 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 24	3:08 AM CDT	EF1	Sevier	8.2	300			$500,000

May 26 16 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
May 26	1:06 AM CDT	EF2	Benton	5.4	650			$2.0 million
May 26	1:23 AM CDT	EF1	Benton	2.3	600			$100,000
May 26	1:24 AM CDT	EF2	Benton	2.4	1,500			$200,000
May 26	1:46 AM CDT	EF2	Benton	7.4	3,000			$80 million
May 26	2:10 AM CDT	EF1	Benton	3.2	300			$150,000
May 26	2:16 AM CDT	EF1	Madison	8.9	500			$75,000
May 26	3:27 AM CDT	EF3	Olvey tornado	21.6	2,000	4	1
May 26	3:59 AM CDT	EF3	Marion	34.6	1,760	1	17
May 26	4:26 AM CDT	EF2	Baxter	5.3	400
May 26	5:03 AM CDT	EF1	Fulton	10.4	500
May 26	5:58 AM CDT	EF1	Sharp	12.0	600
May 26	6:15 AM CDT	EF1	Randolph	2.2	600
May 26	6:24 AM CDT	EF1	Randolph	5.0	300
May 26	6:29 AM CDT	EF1	Randolph	0.5	50
May 26	11:00 PM CDT	EF2	Greene	3.6	200			$1.0 million
May 26	11:24 PM CDT	EF1	Greene	1.3	75			$100,000

June 21 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
June 21	5:25 PM CDT	Unrated	Ashley	0.0	25

July 8 9 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
July 8	4:11 PM CDT	EF0	Lafayette	1.0	25
July 8	4:19 PM CDT	EF1	Miller	5.4	95	$300
July 8	4:45 PM CDT	EF1	Miller	2.1	50
July 8	6:46 PM CDT	EF1	Dallas	3.2	75
July 8	6:51 PM CDT	EF1	Dallas	2.4	75
July 8	7:53 PM CDT	EF1	Ouachita	2.3	50
July 8	8:03 PM CDT	EF1	Nevada	0.5	50	$10,000
July 8	10:28 PM CDT	EF1	Jefferson	3.2	75
July 8	10:42 PM CDT	EF0	Jefferson	5.8	75

October 30 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
October 30	12:25 AM CDT	EF1	Washington	3.0	200			$300,000

November 3 1 tornado

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Deaths	Injuries	Damage
November 3	8:35 AM CST	Unrated	Scott	0.2	30

November 4 4 tornadoes

Date	Time	Rating	Where	Path (mi)	Width (yd)	Damage
November 4	2:33 PM CST	Unrated	Yell	2.4	190
November 4	4:09 PM CST	Unrated	Johnson	0.9	30
November 4	4:11 PM CST	EF1	Benton	4.6	550	$40,000
November 4	4:53 PM CST	EF2	Benton	3.8	375	$900,000

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)	Injuries	Damage
May 7	2:23 AM CDT	EF2	Adair, OK to AR	11.7	800		$75,000
May 25	12:59 AM CDT	EF3	Decatur tornado, Oklahoma and Arkansas	7.9	3,200	2	$6.2 million
July 8	4:03 PM CDT	EF1	Lafayette, LA to AR	7.1	300		$75,000
July 8	4:48 PM CDT	EF1	Columbia, LA to AR	6.5	300		$35,000
November 4	3:21 PM CST	EF2	Cherokee, OK to AR	32.9	1,200		$280,000

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.