EF1 tornado, Calhoun and Cleveland counties, Arkansas, March 11, 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

March 11, 2026

Touchdown

6:57 AM CDT (11:57 UTC)

Lifted

7:16 AM CDT (12:16 UTC)

On the ground

19 minutes

Path length

14.7 miles (23.6 km)

Path width

200 yards (183 m)

Deaths

0

Injuries

0

Counties

Calhoun and Cleveland counties

Touchdown point

33.767, -92.440

Lift-off point

33.876, -92.223

Highest wind the damage implies

105 mph

Surveyed by

NWS LZK

The office's name for it

Kingsland Tornado

Survey last edited

March 11, 2026

Record number

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

The tornado began east of US Highway 167, southwest of Fordyce. The tornado tracked northeast across several county roads as well as state Hwy 274, Hwy 205, Hwy 8, Hwy 97 and Hwy 189. As it moved across these areas it did extensive damage to pine trees as well as some hardwood trees. A few outbuildings were damaged and some minor roof damage was noted on a few residences. As the tornado moved across Hwy 97 a few trees were knocked down onto the roadway. A two vehicle accident occurred due to this, with no reported injuries. The tornado ended around the Saline River.

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

10 damage points were recorded along this path by NWS LZK, in the Damage Assessment Toolkit the survey teams carry. The strongest indicator was rated EF1. The highest wind the damage implies is 105 mph.

• Hardwood and softwood trees uprooted.
• At least three napped power poles along Hwy 8.
• Pine trees snapped. A log truck drove into the downed tree shortly after it fell across Hwy 97. This led to a two vehicle accident, no injuries reported.
• Numerous softwood and hardwood trees uprooted and snapped in this area, near the end of the track.

Survey points are preliminary and are the raw material the published rating was built from. Source: NWS Damage Assessment Toolkit.

5 minutes of warning. NWS LZK issued a tornado warning for this county at 11:52 UTC, 5 minutes before the tornado touched down, in force until 12:13 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 0.05 chance of a tornado within 25 miles, in the hatched area where significant tornadoes were expected. The outlook in force was issued at 05:29 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 Little Rock radar (KLZK), 113 km away, was scanning. The volume nearest the touchdown began at 11:54 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

56 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.