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PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
738 PM CDT TUE MAR 18 2025
..NWS DAMAGE SURVEY FOR 03/14/25 TORNADO EVENT - UPDATE #3
UPDATE
UPDATED TO INCLUDE ONE NEW TORNADO TRACK IN JEFFERSON COUNTY.
ADDITIONAL ADJUSTMENTS ARE POSSIBLE IN THE COMING DAYS/WEEKS AS
MORE DATA IS GATHERED. THEREFORE, DATA REMAINS PRELIMINARY.
GAMALIEL TORNADO
RATING: EF1
ESTIMATED PEAK WIND: 100 MPH
PATH LENGTH /STATUTE/: 4.8 MILES
PATH WIDTH /MAXIMUM/: 100 YARDS
FATALITIES: 0
INJURIES: 0
START DATE: 03/14/2025
START TIME: 08:34 PM CDT
START LOCATION: 6 SSE UDALL / BAXTER COUNTY / MO
START LAT/LON: 36.4552 / -92.2359
END DATE: 03/14/2025
END TIME: 08:40 PM CDT
END LOCATION: 2 SW BAKERSFIELD / BAXTER COUNTY / MO
END LAT/LON: 36.4985 / -92.1691
SURVEY SUMMARY:
THE TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN JUST WEST OF HIGHWAY 101 TRACKING INTO
THE TOWN OF GAMALIEL WHERE IT CAUSED DAMAGE TO THE POST OFFICE
AND FIRE STATION. IT THEN TRACKED NORTHEAST ALONG HIGHWAY
101 WHERE IT UPROOTED AND SNAPPED NUMEROUS TREES. THIS CONTINUED
AS IT TRACKED JUST WEST OF COUNTY ROAD 43 WHERE IT MOVED INTO
MISSOURI. THIS PART OF THE TORNADO HAS BEEN RATED AN EF-1 WITH
WINDS OF 100 MPH.
STONE TO SHARP COUNTY TORNADO
RATING: EF4
ESTIMATED PEAK WIND: 170 MPH
PATH LENGTH /STATUTE/: 45.9 MILES
PATH WIDTH /MAXIMUM/: 1400 YARDS
FATALITIES: 0
INJURIES: 4
START DATE: 03/14/2025
START TIME: 09:16 PM CDT
START LOCATION: FIFTY-SIX / STONE COUNTY / AR
START LAT/LON: 35.9533 / -92.2332
END DATE: 03/14/2025
END TIME: 10:11 PM CDT
END LOCATION: 6 E ASH FLAT / SHARP COUNTY / AR
END LAT/LON: 36.228 / -91.4929
SURVEY SUMMARY:
CURRENT SURVEY RESULTS INDICATE THIS TORNADO FORMED SOUTHWEST OF
THE TOWN OF FIFTY-SIX IN STONE COUNTY, MOVING NORTHEAST OVER
ARKANSAS HWY 14, UPROOTING MANY TREES AND DAMAGING SEVERAL
BUILDINGS. THE WORST DAMAGE WAS NOTED IN FIFTY-SIX INCLUDED A
CABIN PARK, WHERE MOST CABINS WERE EITHER DESTROYED OR SHIFTED
OFF OF THEIR FOUNDATIONS. THE TORNADO THEN ENTERED BLANCHARD
SPRINGS AREA UPROOTING OR SNAPPING MANY TREES AS IT MOVED TOWARDS
ARKANSAS HWY 5. A REMOTE AUTOMATIC WEATHER STATION (RAWS) IN THIS
AREA MEASURED WINDS CONSISTENT WITH THE RATING OF DAMAGE JUST
UPSTREAM OF THE RAWS OBSERVATION SITE AS THE TORNADO PASSED
OVERHEAD. AS THE TORNADO PASSED OVER HWY 5, MANY TREES WERE BLOWN
DOWN ALONG THE HILLSIDE ALONG THE HIGHWAY, WITH THE TORNADO
CONTINUING NORTHEAST CROSSING THE WHITE RIVER. AS THE TORNADO
CROSSED INTO IZARD COUNTY, IT MOVED THROUGH THE COMMUNITY OF
JUMBO, UPROOTING OR SNAPPING TREES AND POWER POLES, AND CAUSING
MORE STRUCTURAL DAMAGE. THE TORNADO CONTINUED TO MOVE NORTHEAST
THROUGH MOSTLY RURAL AREAS, CAUSING LARGE TREE BLOWDOWNS, BEFORE
PASSING JUST TO THE NORTH OF MELBOURNE, AND CONTINUING INTO THE
RURAL COMMUNITIES OF LARKIN AND FRANKLIN. THE MOST SEVERE DAMAGE
WAS OBSERVED OVER THIS PORTION OF THE DAMAGE PATH, WITH THREE
HOUSES SUFFERING CATASTROPHIC DAMAGE, CONSISTENT WITH AN EF-
4 RATING. TWO SIGNIFICANT INJURIES ALSO OCCURRED IN ONE OF THESE
HOUSES. THE TORNADO LIKELY KEPT MOVING NORTHEAST INTO A VERY
REMOTE PART OF EASTERN IZARD COUNTY, EVENTUALLY CROSSING INTO
SHARP COUNTY, AND CROSSED US HIGHWAY 167 SOUTH OF ASH FLAT WHERE
A FEW MORE HOMES AND METAL OUTBUILDINGS WERE BADLY DAMAGED ALONG
WITH NUMEROUS TREES. THE TORNADO KEPT MOVING NORTHEAST, LIKELY
DISSIPATING JUST NORTHEAST OF THE INTERSECTION OF LIBERTY HILL
AND GAME RESERVE ROADS. THIS TORNADO HAS BEEN RATED AN EF-4 WITH
MAXIMUM ESTIMATED WIND SPEEDS OF 170 MPH.
INDEPENDENCE TO RANDOLPH COUNTY TORNADO
RATING: EF3
ESTIMATED PEAK WIND: 165 MPH
PATH LENGTH /STATUTE/: 81.77 MILES
PATH WIDTH /MAXIMUM/: 700 YARDS
FATALITIES: 3
INJURIES: 0
START DATE: 03/14/2025
START TIME: 10:16 PM CDT
START LOCATION: 2 S CUSHMAN / INDEPENDENCE COUNTY / AR
START LAT/LON: 35.8395 / -91.7831
END DATE: 03/14/2025
END TIME: 11:51 PM CDT
END LOCATION: 5 N CORNING / CLAY COUNTY / AR
END LAT/LON: 36.4816 / -90.5821
SURVEY SUMMARY:
THE TORNADO BEGAN JUST EAST OF THE WHITE RIVER NEAR ONEAL
ROAD UPROOTING AND SNAPPING NUMEROUS TREES. THE TORNADO THEN
CONTINUED NORTH OF BETHESDA CROSSING OVER FARM LAND AND SNAPPING
AND UPROOTING TREES. IT THEN MOVED ALONG CLAXTON LOOP CAUSING
DAMAGE TO A COUPLE OF HOUSES AND A BARN. A DOUBLE WIDE MOBILE HOME
JUST NORTH OF CLAXTON LOOP WAS COMPLETELY DESTROYED. AS THE
TORNADO TRACKED NORTHEAST TOWARDS CAVE CITY, IT MOSTLY SNAPPED
AND UPROOTED TREES IN MOSTLY FORESTED AREAS. THE TORNADO
CONTINUED TO CAVE CITY WHERE IT CAUSED DAMAGE TO MULTIPLE HOMES
AND BUILDINGS WITHIN THE CITY. IT THEN CONTINUED TOWARDS NORTH
GRAVEL PIT ROAD UPROOTING AND SNAPPING TREES. AS THE TORNADO MOVED
TOWARDS THE NORTHEAST IT ROLLED A SINGLE WIDE MOBILE HOME SOUTH OF
WEST PROSPERITY ROAD. IT TRAVELED ALONG EAST PROSPERITY ROAD
SNAPPING AND UPROOTING MORE TREES, CONTINUING NORTHEAST INTO
LAWRENCE COUNTY. MORE DAMAGE WAS OBSERVED IN SMITHVILLE NEAR
RANDOLPH COUNTY ROAD 273 INCLUDING DAMAGE TO A COUPLE OF BARNS
AND UPROOTING SEVERAL TREES. THE TORNADO THEN TRACKED TOWARDS
BLACK ROCK UPROOTING AND SNAPPING TREES. THE TORNADO CROSSED OVER
THE BLACK RIVER CONTINUING TO DAMAGE MAINLY TREES, AND PARALLELED
THE RIVER FOR A FEW MILES, HEADING TOWARDS SHANNON, WHERE A
COUPLE OF BUILDINGS SUSTAINED ROOF DAMAGE. THE TORNADO CONTINUED
NORTHEAST, AGAIN MOVING TOWARDS THE BLACK RIVER, AND CROSSING IT
MULTIPLE TIMES AS IT CONTINUED TO CAUSE DAMAGE TO TREES. THE
TORNADO THEN MOVED PARALLEL TO HIGHWAY 67 WHERE POWER
TRANSMISSION LINES WERE DOWNED IN ADDITION TO MORE DAMAGE TO
TREES AND HOUSES. THE TORNADO THEN MOVED INTO CLAY COUNTY,
CROSSING INTO THE NWS MEMPHIS COUNTY WARNING AREA. THIS TORNADO
MOVED OUT OF RANDOLPH COUNTY THROUGH THE REYNO COMMUNITY. A POWER
POLE WAS DESTROYED ON COUNTY ROAD 112 AND SIX EMPTY GRAIN BINS
WERE DESTROYED. THE TORNADO WEAKENED AS IT MOVED NORTHEAST,
PRODUCING SCATTERED TREE DAMAGE AS IT CROSSED COUNTY ROADS
110 AND 125. A CENTER IRRIGATION PIVOT WAS OVERTURNED AND SEVERAL
POWER POLES WERE SNAPPED WHERE THE TORNADO CROSSED HIGHWAY 67,
APPROXIMATELY ONE MILE WEST OF THE CORNING MUNICIPAL AIRPORT. AN
OUTBUILDING WAS DAMAGED NEAR HIGHWAY 67, SPREADING METAL DEBRIS
IN THE FIELD NORTH OF THE AIRPORT. THE DAMAGE BECAME VERY
SPORADIC FROM THIS POINT WITH ONLY MINOR TREE DAMAGE AND SOME
SIDING PULLED OFF AN OUTBUILDING. THE TORNADO LIFTED NEAR THE
INTERSECTION OF COUNTY ROADS 147 AND 154. THE TORNADO HAS BEEN
RATED AN EF-3 WITH MAX WINDS OF 165 MPH.
JOAN TORNADO
RATING: EF2
ESTIMATED PEAK WIND: 115 MPH
PATH LENGTH /STATUTE/: 21.6 MILES
PATH WIDTH /MAXIMUM/: 150 YARDS
FATALITIES: 0
INJURIES: 0
START DATE: 03/14/2025
START TIME: 10:17 PM CDT
START LOCATION: 2 ENE GUM SPRINGS / CLARK COUNTY / AR
START LAT/LON: 34.0729 / -93.0548
END DATE: 03/14/2025
END TIME: 10:43 PM CDT
END LOCATION: 8 SW POYEN / HOT SPRING COUNTY / AR
END LAT/LON: 34.2476 / -92.7527
SURVEY SUMMARY:
EVIDENCE OF AN EF-2 TORNADO WAS OBSERVED BY NATIONAL WEATHER
SERVICE DAMAGE SURVEY TEAMS. THE TORNADO BEGAN SOUTH OF
ARKADELPHIA NEAR COPELAND RIDGE ROAD AND PROCEEDED TO MOVE
NORTHEAST ACROSS THE NORTHERN PORTION OF THE COMMUNITY OF JOAN,
BRIEFLY CROSSING OVER FAR NORTHWESTERN DALLAS COUNTY, AND
CONTINUING ON INTO SOUTHEAST HOT SPRING COUNTY. THE TORNADO
HEAVILY DAMAGED A NEWLY BUILT SHOP IN THE SOUTHERN PARTS OF THE
HARRISON COMMUNITY WHERE THE PEAK INTENSITY OF THE TORNADO WAS
OBSERVED. THE TORNADO CONTINUED NORTHEAST, CURVING UP TOWARDS THE
COMMUNITY OF LANDERS BEFORE DISSIPATING EAST OF LANDERS RD BEFORE
HIGHWAY 9.
SHARP-RANDOLPH COUNTY TORNADO
RATING: EF3
ESTIMATED PEAK WIND: 155 MPH
PATH LENGTH /STATUTE/: 32.9 MILES
PATH WIDTH /MAXIMUM/: 800 YARDS
FATALITIES: 0
INJURIES: 0
START DATE: 03/14/2025
START TIME: 10:21 PM CDT
START LOCATION: 2 NW WILLIFORD / SHARP COUNTY / AR
START LAT/LON: 36.2727 / -91.385
END DATE: 03/14/2025
END TIME: 10:56 PM CDT
END LOCATION: 5 N MAYNARD / RANDOLPH COUNTY / AR
END LAT/LON: 36.4984 / -90.8799
SURVEY SUMMARY:
THIS TORNADO FORMED JUST WEST OF US HWY 412/63/62 ON THE SOUTH
SIDE OF OZARK ACRES, DESTROYING SOME OUTBUILDINGS AND PUSHING A
HOUSE OFF ITS FOUNDATION AS IT CROSSED THE HIGHWAY. AS THE
TORNADO MOVED NORTHEAST, IT CROSSED MARTIN CREEK ROAD BETWEEN
HARNESS ROAD AND LOWDER MOUNTAIN ROAD, CAUSING DAMAGE TO TREES
AND OUTBUILDINGS. THE TORNADO CONTINUED NORTHEAST THROUGH
PORTIONS OF RAVENDEN SPRINGS, UPROOTING OR SNAPPING TREES ON THE
SOUTH SIDE OF TOWN. EAST OF RAVENDEN SPRINGS, MORE TREES WERE
DAMAGED, WITH SOME DAMAGE TO A COUPLE HOMES ALONG HWY 90. THE
TORNADO THEN CROSSED THE ELEVEN POINT RIVER SOUTH OF THE DALTON
COMMUNITY, THEN DAMAGING SEVERAL STRUCTURES JUST WEST OF HAMIL
WHERE MANY OUTBUILDINGS AND A HOME WERE DESTROYED. THIS IS WHERE
THE WORST DAMAGE OCCURRED ALONG THIS TRACK. THE TORNADO CONTINUED
NORTHEAST PASSING BETWEEN WARM SPRINGS AND PALESTINE, DAMAGING OR
DESTROYING MORE OUTBUILDINGS AND A MOBILE HOME, ALONG WITH MANY
TREES UPROOTED OR SNAPPED. THE TORNADO CONTINUED NORTHEAST ALONG
WARM SPRINGS ROAD NEAR THE COMMUNITY OF BRAKEBILL, WITH MAINLY
TREE DAMAGE NOTED. THIS TORNADO THEN CONTINUED NORTHEAST CROSSING
THE MISSOURI-ARKANSAS STATE LINE AROUND MINORCA AND MALONE ROADS,
CROSSING INTO THE PADUCAH, KY NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE FORECAST
OFFICE COUNTY WARNING AREA SOUTHEAST OF POYNOR, MISSOURI. THIS
TORNADO HAS BEEN RATED AN EF-3 WITH MAXIMUM ESTIMATED WIND SPEEDS
OF 155 MPH.
BETHESDA TORNADO
RATING: EF1
ESTIMATED PEAK WIND: 90 MPH
PATH LENGTH /STATUTE/: 3.6 MILES
PATH WIDTH /MAXIMUM/: 100 YARDS
FATALITIES: 0
INJURIES: 0
START DATE: 03/14/2025
START TIME: 10:28 PM CDT
START LOCATION: 6 SSW CUSHMAN / INDEPENDENCE COUNTY / AR
START LAT/LON: 35.7897 / -91.8407
END DATE: 03/14/2025
END TIME: 10:32 PM CDT
END LOCATION: 4 S CUSHMAN / INDEPENDENCE COUNTY / AR
END LAT/LON: 35.8 / -91.7776
SURVEY SUMMARY:
A BRIEF TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN JUST TO THE EAST OF THE WHITE RIVER
NEAR CRIPPLE CROW LANE WHERE IT CAUSED MINOR ROOF DAMAGE TO A
HOUSE AND DESTROYED A SHED. THE TORNADO THEN CROSSED HUGHEY LANE
AND DEBBIE LANE CONTINUING OFF TOWARDS THE NORTHEAST, PASSING
MOSTLY FARMLAND AND FIELDS. THE TORNADO LIFTED JUST TO THE EAST
OF MEDLOCK ROAD. THIS TORNADO HAS BEEN RATED AN EF1 WITH WINDS
OF 90 MPH.
DIAZ TORNADO
RATING: EF4
ESTIMATED PEAK WIND: 190 MPH
PATH LENGTH /STATUTE/: 18.6 MILES
PATH WIDTH /MAXIMUM/: 1760 YARDS
FATALITIES: 0
INJURIES: 2
START DATE: 03/14/2025
START TIME: 11:13 PM CDT
START LOCATION: 4 SSE OIL TROUGH / INDEPENDENCE COUNTY / AR
START LAT/LON: 35.5705 / -91.4227
END DATE: 03/14/2025
END TIME: 11:36 PM CDT
END LOCATION: 3 ESE TUCKERMAN / JACKSON COUNTY / AR
END LAT/LON: 35.7122 / -91.1433
SURVEY SUMMARY:
THIS VIOLENT TORNADO MOVED NORTHEAST ACROSS SOUTHEASTERN
INDEPENDENCE COUNTY AND INTO CENTRAL JACKSON COUNTY WITH A TRACK
LENGTH OF 18.6 MILES, AND REACHING AN ESTIMATED MAX WIDTH OF 1760
YARDS, OR 1 MILE. THE TORNADO STARTED NEAR THE SMALL COMMUNITY OF
DEPARTEE, CAUSING DAMAGE TO MOSTLY TREES, AND A FEW METAL OUT
BUILDINGS AND WOODEN POWER LINES. THE TORNADO QUICKLY INTENSIFIED
AS IT MOVED INTO JACKSON COUNTY, CAUSING EF-3 DAMAGE TO SEVERAL
BUILDINGS IN A NEIGHBORHOOD EAST OF MACKS. EF-4 DAMAGE WAS ALSO
OBSERVED ON A WELL-BUILT STRUCTURE IN THIS AREA. THE TORNADO
CONTINUED TO MOVE NORTHEAST, CROSSING THE WHITE RIVER, MOVING
BETWEEN FITZGERALD AND DIAZ. SIGNIFICANT EF3 AND EF4 DAMAGE WAS
OBSERVED IN ANOTHER NEIGHBORHOOD BETWEEN THESE COMMUNITIES, AND
NUMEROUS CARS, INCLUDING A LARGE DUMP TRUCK, WERE TOSSED AND
THROWN SEVERAL HUNDRED YARDS. THE TORNADO CONTINUED TO MOVE
NORTHEAST, CAUSING MORE DAMAGE IN CAMPBELL STATION, CROSSING
HIGHWAY 367, THEN DISSIPATED NEAR JACKSON COUNTY ROAD 38 SOUTH OF
ARKANSAS HWY 37. THIS TORNADO PRODUCED MAXIMUM ESTIMATED WIND
SPEEDS OF 190 MPH, CONSISTENT WITH AN EF4 RATING.
JEFFERSON COUNTY TORNADO
RATING: EF1
ESTIMATED PEAK WIND: 100 MPH
PATH LENGTH /STATUTE/: 0.9 MILES
PATH WIDTH /MAXIMUM/: 50 YARDS
FATALITIES: 0
INJURIES: 0
START DATE: 03/14/2025
START TIME: 11:43 PM CDT
START LOCATION: 5 NW SHERRILL / JEFFERSON COUNTY / AR
START LAT/LON: 34.4315 / -92.0145
END DATE: 03/14/2025
END TIME: 11:46 PM CDT
END LOCATION: 4 NW SHERRILL / JEFFERSON COUNTY / AR
END LAT/LON: 34.4332 / -91.9994
SURVEY SUMMARY:
A VERY SHORT AND BRIEF TORNADO MOVED ALONG JOE T HENSLEE ROAD IN
NORTHERN JEFFERSON COUNTY, CAUSING DAMAGE TO TREES, AND
DESTROYING A MOBILE WITH A FEW OUTBUILDINGS. THE TORNADO LIKELY
DISSIPATED JUST AFTER CROSSING NORTH PACK ROAD. THIS TORNADO WAS
RATED AN EF-1, WITH MAXIMUM ESTIMATED WINDSPEEDS OF 100 MPH.
FITZHUGH TORNADO
RATING: EF2
ESTIMATED PEAK WIND: 120 MPH
PATH LENGTH /STATUTE/: 5.1 MILES
PATH WIDTH /MAXIMUM/: 200 YARDS
FATALITIES: 0
INJURIES: 0
START DATE: 03/14/2025
START TIME: 11:50 PM CDT
START LOCATION: 3 N AUGUSTA / WOODRUFF COUNTY / AR
START LAT/LON: 35.336 / -91.3679
END DATE: 03/14/2025
END TIME: 11:55 PM CDT
END LOCATION: 3 WSW TUPELO / WOODRUFF COUNTY / AR
END LAT/LON: 35.3741 / -91.2918
SURVEY SUMMARY:
THIS TORNADO STARTED JUST SOUTHWEST OF WOODRUFF COUNTY ROAD
135 AND ARKANSAS HIGHWAY 33, PRODUCING MOSTLY TREE DAMAGE, AND
BADLY DAMAGING A BARN. THE TORNADO CONTINUED MOVING NORTHEAST,
AND JUST SOUTH OF THE COMMUNITY OF FITZHUGH, DAMAGING WOODEN
POWER LINES. THE TORNADO KEPT MOVING NORTHEAST, PARALLELING
HIGHWAY 33, CAUSING MOSTLY TREE DAMAGE, AND DISSIPATED NEAR
WOODRUFF COUNTY 267, WITH A PATH LENGTH OF 5.1 MILES, AND MAXIMUM
ESTIMATED WIND SPEEDS OF 120 MPH, CONSISTENT WITH AN EF-2 RATING.
EF SCALE: THE ENHANCED FUJITA SCALE CLASSIFIES TORNADOES INTO THE
FOLLOWING CATEGORIES:
EF0.....65 TO 85 MPH
EF1.....86 TO 110 MPH
EF2.....111 TO 135 MPH
EF3.....136 TO 165 MPH
EF4.....166 TO 200 MPH
EF5.....>200 MPH
NOTE:
THE INFORMATION IN THIS STATEMENT IS PRELIMINARY AND SUBJECT TO
CHANGE PENDING FINAL REVIEW OF THE EVENTS AND PUBLICATION IN
NWS STORM DATA.
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