EF1 tornado, Manitou to Webb City, Arkansas, June 22, 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

June 22, 2026

Touchdown

6:16 AM CDT (11:16 UTC)

Lifted

6:24 AM CDT (11:24 UTC)

On the ground

8 minutes

Path length

3.3 miles (5.3 km)

Path width

400 yards (366 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

County

Franklin County

Touchdown point

35.495, -93.878

Lift-off point

35.479, -93.827

Highest wind the damage implies

105 mph

Surveyed by

NWS TSA

Survey last edited

June 26, 2026

Record number

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

This tornado developed just south of Highway 64 and west of Woodland W Road. It moved east-northeast, crossing Woodland W Road and Highway 64, where numerous trees were snapped or uprooted, some fell onto homes, power poles were snapped, and outbuildings were destroyed. The tornado then moved east across two neighborhoods just north of Highway 64. Numerous trees were uprooted or snapped in these neighborhoods and some homes were damaged when trees or large limbs fell onto them. The tornado then turned southeast and crossed Highway 64 near the Highway 23 intersection, where large tree limbs were snapped and signs were damaged. It then crossed the Arkansas River and then Highway 23, and dissipated east of Santa Fe Trail and Aux Arcade Park Road, snapping numerous large tree limbs before it ended. The tornado produced a tornadic debris signature from the KSRX WSR-88D radar.

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

Thunderstorms developed over western Kansas during the afternoon of the 21st, near a surface low pressure system and a quasi-stationary front. These thunderstorms organized into a line as they moved southeast across southern Kansas and northwest Oklahoma during the evening. Several damaging wind reports and a tornado occurred across west central Arkansas during the early morning hours of the 22nd, as this squall line raced through the area.

This tornado developed just south of Highway 64 and west of Woodland W Road. It moved east-northeast, crossing Woodland W Road and Highway 64, where numerous trees were snapped or uprooted, some fell onto homes, power poles were snapped, and outbuildings were destroyed. The tornado then moved east across two neighborhoods just north of Highway 64. Numerous trees were uprooted or snapped in these neighborhoods and some homes were damaged when trees or large limbs fell onto them. The tornado then turned southeast and crossed Highway 64 near the Highway 23 intersection, where large tree limbs were snapped and signs were damaged. It then crossed the Arkansas River and then Highway 23, and dissipated east of Santa Fe Trail and Aux Arcade Park Road, snapping numerous large tree limbs before it ended. The tornado produced a tornadic debris signature from the KSRX WSR-88D radar. Based on this damage, maximum estimated wind in the tornado was 95 to 105 mph.

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

8 minutes of warning. NWS TSA issued a tornado warning for this county at 11:08 UTC, 8 minutes before the tornado touched down, in force until 11:30 UTC.

The county was under a severe thunderstorm watch, issued at 08:50 UTC and running to 11:46 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 Marginal Risk. The outlook in force was issued at 05:58 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.

Fort Smith Municipal (FSM), 50 km from the path, in the two hours either side.

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

The Western Arkansas radar (KSRX), 51 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 11:13 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 2026 tornado in ArkansasEvery tornado in Arkansas since 1950Warnings in force in Arkansas nowThe forecast where you are

20 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.