EF1 tornado, Cleburne and White counties, Arkansas, April 27, 2026

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, as surveyed

EF1, preliminary

Date

April 27, 2026

Touchdown

7:52 PM CDT (00:52 UTC)

Lifted

7:54 PM CDT (00:54 UTC)

On the ground

2 minutes

Path length

1.4 miles (2.2 km)

Path width

100 yards (91 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

Counties

Cleburne and White counties

Touchdown point

35.365, -92.022

Lift-off point

35.360, -91.999

Highest wind the damage implies

100 mph

Surveyed by

NWS LZK

The office's name for it

Rose Bud Tornado

Survey last edited

May 1, 2026

Record number

None yet. SPC numbers 2026 in the spring of 2027.

A weak tornado formed in a field on the west side of Carter Lane in Rose Bud.Several snapped trees were visible in the tree-line in the distance. The tornado then crossed Carter Lane into a field and across several more tree-lines. Multiple breaks in tree lines were observed before the widest point of damage occurred. Multiple trees were uprooted or snapped in a field along an approximately 100 yard stretch. The tornado then began to weaken as it pushed further southeast approaching County Line Road. As it crossed County Line Road it broke large branches off a few trees before lifting further into the woods in White County. This tornado was rated and EF-1 with 100mph winds with a peak width of approximately 100 yards.

Written by NWS LZK in the NWS Damage Assessment Toolkit. A survey is revised as better evidence arrives.

The Storm Prediction Center had this point in a Enhanced Risk, with a 0.05 chance of a tornado within 25 miles, in the hatched area where significant tornadoes were expected. The outlook in force was issued at 19:49 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.

Searcy Municipal Airport (M07) (SRC), 30 km from the path, in the two hours either side.

From the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of airport observations.

The Little Rock radar (KLZK), 63 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 00:51 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.

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28 more have been surveyed in the United States that day, so far.

Ratings are the survey's, read off the damage rather than measured; the rating scale is above. A survey can be revised, so the rating, the path and the casualties can all still change.

NWS Damage Assessment Toolkit, the record the survey teams file from the damage, and NOAA Storm Prediction Center storm reports. Neither is the official database for 2026, which SPC publishes in the spring of 2027.