Marmaduke, After the tornado struck
PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN310 PM CDT THU APR 6 2006...
AN UPDATE ON THE FINAL ASSESSMENTS OF THE TORNADO DAMAGE FROM THE MAJOR TORNADO OUTBREAK ACROSS THE MIDSOUTH FROM THE AFTERNOON OF APRIL 2 2006 TO THE OVERNIGHT HOURS OF APRIL 3 2006......
CHANGES WERE MADE TO ADD IN A SEPARATE F3 TORNADO EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER FROM CARUTHERSVILLE TO NEWBERN INSTEAD OF ONE CONTINUOUS TORNADO...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PERSONNEL IN MEMPHIS ALONG WITH COORDINATION FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LITTLE ROCK HAVE COMPLETED THEIR SURVEY OF THE TORNADO DAMAGE ACROSS EASTERN ARKANSAS...
THE BOOTHEEL OF MISSOURI AND NORTHWEST TENNESSEE. IN TOTAL 5 F3 TORNADOES TOUCHEDDOWN ACROSS THE MIDSOUTH.
THE FIRST TORNADO WAS THE LONGEST TORNADO TRACK ACROSS THE MIDSOUTH AND IMPACTED RANDOLPH...LAWRENCE...AND GREENE COUNTIES IN ARKANSAS...AS WELL AS DUNKLIN AND PEMISCOT COUNTIES IN MISSOURI.
IT APPEARS THAT THE PARENT SUPERCELL FIRST PRODUCED A TORNADO THAT TOUCHED DOWN JUST WEST OF RAVENDEN IN SHARP COUNTY ARKANSAS AND THEN MOVED INTO RAVENDEN (LAWRENCE COUNTY) AS AN F0 TORNADO WITH A 200 YARD PATH. SEVERAL WOODEN AND METAL SHEDS WERE DESTROYED...ALONG WITHA ROOF OF AN OLDER HOUSE BLOWN OFF. FROM THERE THE TORNADO APPEAREDTO MOVE THROUGH IMBODEN AND THEN SKIPPED ON ITS WAY TO JUST SOUTH OF POCAHONTAS. F1 DAMAGE WAS OBSERVED ONE MILE SOUTH OF POCAHONTAS NEARROAD 67 AND ARKANSAS 90...WITH A WIDTH OF 300 YARDS. SEVERAL HOMESWERE DAMAGED WITH ONE ROOF COMPLETELY GONE. FROM THAT POINT THE TORNADO REMAINED ON THE GROUND AS IT MOVED EAST TOWARD LAFE...WITH GENERALLY F0 TO F1 DAMAGE OBSERVED ALONG THE PATH. AS THE TORNADO MOVED INTO LAFE IT BEGAN TO WIND UP AND PRODUCED F1 TO F3 DAMAGE UNTIL THE TORNADO REACHED MARMADUKE. IN MARMADUKE THE TORNADO REACHED MAXIMUM WINDS OF 200 MPH...A STRONG END F3 ALONG WITH WIDTH OF HALF AMILE TO THREE QUARTERS OF A MILE. SOME OF THE DAMAGE IN MARMADUKEINCLUDED NUMEROUS HOUSES DESTROYED...ALONG WITH 15 RAILROAD CARS WERELIFTED OFF THE TRACK AND BLOWN OVER. THERE WERE 50 KNOWN INJURIES WITH 5 OF THOSE INJURED IN CRITICAL CONDITION.
FIVE MILES EAST OF MARMADUKE...2 WELL CONSTRUCTED HOMES WERE FLATTENED AND A NEW CAR THROWN 80 YARDS. AS THE TORNADO CONTINUED EAST...IT APPEARED TO WEAKEN IN STRENGTH TO A F1 WITH JUST SCATTERED DEBRIS AND LARGE POWER POLES DOWN ALTHOUGH THE SIZE OF THE SYSTEM REMAINED LARGE AS IT PASSED THROUGH DUNKLIN AND PEMISCOT COUNTIES.THE DAMAGE PATH APPEARED NEAR THREE QUARTERS OF A MILE WIDE AT TIME ESPECIALLY AS IT APPROACHED CARUTHERSVILLE MISSOURI. AS THE TORNADO MOVED INTO THE TOWN OF BRAGGADOCIO MISSOURI...IT STRENGTHENED BACK TO A F2 TORNADO. THERE WERE 2 INJURED AND 1 ELDERLY LADY KILLED AS THEY WERE TRYING TO RUN FROM THE TORNADO.Survey photos from Northeast Arkansas and the Missouri Bootheel
THE TORNADO CONTINUED INTO CARUTHERSVILLE AS A F3 TORNADO AND PASSED THROUGH THE SOUTHERN HALF OF THE CITY AND DAMAGED ALMOST EVERY HOME AND MANY WERE RENDERED UN-INHABITABLE BEFORE DISSIPATING AT THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER. THERE WERE 64 INJURIES...ALTHOUGH NO FATALITIES. AS THE TORNADO PASSED INTO THE CITY THE WIDTH OF THE TORNADO WAS HALF TO THREE QUARTERS OF A MILE WIDE AS IT PASSED OVER I-55.
A SECOND TORNADO FORMED JUST EAST OF THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER IN DYERCOUNTY. THIS TORNADO TRAVELED 18 MILES BEFORE DISSIPATING JUST EAST OF NEWBERN TENNESSEE. THIS STRONG F3 TORNADO HAD WINDS AROUND 200 MPH. NUMEROUS HOMES WERE DESTROYED WITH ADDITIONAL PROPERTY DAMAGE NOTED. THERE WERE 16 FATALITIES WITH THIS STORM. THIS TORNADO WAS FIRST BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN A CONTINUATION OF THE CARUTHERSVILLE TORNADO...BUT FURTHER EVALUATION HAS DETERMINED THAT IT WAS A SEPARATE TORNADO THAT ORIGINATED FROM THE SAME SUPERCELL.
A THIRD TORNADO THAT ORIGINATED FROM THE FIRST SUPERCELL TOUCHED DOWN JUST EAST OF YORKVILLE TENNESSEE (GIBSON COUNTY) AND MOVED THROUGH DYER AND THEN THROUGH BRADFORD. TORNADIC DAMAGE WAS RATED A F1 ON THE FUJITA SCALE WITH UP TO F3 DAMAGE IN BRADFORD TENNESSEE...ESPECIALLY ON TAYLOR ROAD JUST EAST OF HIGHWAY 45. THE STORM CONTINUED EAST THROUGH WEAKLEY AND CARROLL COUNTIES IN TENNESSEE. AFTER THE TORNADO PASSED THROUGH BRADFORD IN GIBSON COUNTY THERE WAS SPORADIC DAMAGE ACROSS THE NORTHERN HALF OF CARROLL COUNTY WITH WORST AFFECTED AREAS 5 MILES SOUTH-SOUTHEAST OF MCKENZIE. DAMAGE HERE INCLUDED NUMEROUS TREES DOWNS...GRAIN SILOS DESTROYED AND POWER LINES DOWNED. A RATINGOF F1 ON THE FUJITA SCALE WAS GIVEN TO THIS TORNADO. DAMAGE CONTINUED INTO BENTON COUNTY. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN NASHVILLE HAS DETAILS ON THE DAMAGE TRACK EAST OF CARROLL COUNTY.
THE FOURTH TORNADO WAS ASSOCIATED WITH A SECOND SUPERCELL THAT HAD FORMED FROM THE ORIGINAL SUPERCELL AND THEN MADE A QUICK RIGHT HAND TURN AND TOUCHED DOWN JUST SOUTH OF THE OBION COUNTY LINE AND JUST NORTH OF RUTHERFORD. THIS TORNADO THEN MOVED SOUTHEAST TRACKING APPROXIMATELY 10 MILES AND DISSIPATED NEAR THE INTERSECTION OF CHINA GROVE ROAD AND HIGHWAY 105. THIS TORNADO WAS RATED AS A F3 ON THE FUJITA SCALE WITH WINDS ESTIMATED AT 200 MPH AND A WIDTH OF UP TO ONE HALF MILE. SEVERAL HOMES WERE DESTROYED WITH MANY AUTOMOBILES TOSSED AND THROWN INTO FIELDS. EIGHT FATALITIES WERE REPORTED IN BRADFORD WITH APPROXIMATELY 50 INJURIES.
A FIFTH TORNADO BEGAN IN WOODRUFF COUNTY IN ARKANSAS 4 MILES SOUTHEAST OF MORTON OR ABOUT A MILE NORTH OF THE PENROSE COMMUNITY IN WOODRUFF COUNTY AND ENDED 9 MILES SOUTHWEST OF PARKIN IN CROSS COUNTY. THE TORNADO REMAINED IN WOODRUFF COUNTY FOR LESS THAN HALF A MILE AND THEN MOVED INTO CROSS COUNTY. THIS TORNADO WENT ON TO STRIKETHE FITZGERALD CROSSING COMMUNITY SOUTH OF WYNNE AND VILLAGE CREEK STATE PARK. A NUMBER OF HOUSES WERE DESTROYED OR DAMAGED ALONG WITH MOBILE HOMES...FARM SHOPS...AND GRAIN SILOS. HUNDREDS OF TREES AND POWER LINES WERE DOWNED. SEVERAL PARKED EIGHTEEN WHEELERS AND CARS WERE OVERTURNED. A RATING OF F3 WAS GIVEN TO THE TORNADO WITH ESTIMATED WINDS OF 200 MPH. THERE WERE 5 INJURIES IN CROSS COUNTY. AFTER EXITING THE PARKIN AREA...F0 DAMAGE WAS OBSERVED INTO CRITTENDEN COUNTY BEFORE LIFTING JUST EAST OF CRAWFORDSVILLE. THANKS TO NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LITTLE ROCK FOR THEIR HELP WITH THE PATH OF THE STORM.
Survey photos from Cross, Lawrence and Randolph Counties in ArkansasSurvey photos from Carroll County Tennessee
THE SIXTH TORNADO ORIGINATED FROM A SUPERCELL THAT MOVED ACROSS SOUTH HAYWOOD COUNTY IN TENNESSEE. A TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN JUST WEST OF BROWNSVILLE TENNESSEE. THIS TORNADO WAS ESTIMATED TO BE AN F2 ON THE FUJITA SCALE WITH A WIDTH OF 30 YARDS AND LENGTH OF THREE QUARTERS OFA MILE. THIS TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN IN THE HICKORY TRAIL SUBDIVISION AND OCCURRED AROUND 1030 PM. THERE WAS PARTIAL ROOF DAMAGE TO APPROXIMATELY A DOZEN HOMES. ONE HOME WAS MOVED OFF OF ITS FOUNDATION WHILE ANOTHER HOME WAS TOTALLY DESTROYED WITH ITS DEBRIS SWEPT CLEAN OFF OF THE FOUNDATION. FORTUNATELY THERE WERE NO INJURIES.
THE SURVEY TEAM ALSO NOTED AREAS OF STRAIGHT-LINE WIND DAMAGE NEARTHE TOWNS OF WHITEVILLE...TOONE...SILERTON AND DANCYVILLE IN HARDEMAN...FAYETTE...SOUTHERN HAYWOOD...AND MCNAIRY COUNTIES INTENNESSEE. THE DAMAGE OCCURRED AROUND 730 PM. A FEW HOMES RECEIVED MINOR DAMAGE WHILE IN THE DANCYVILLE AREA...A MOBILE HOME THAT WASTIED DOWN WAS OVERTURNED. WINDS WERE ESTIMATED TO BE IN EXCESS OF 90MPH HERE.
FUJITA TORNADIC DAMAGE SCALE
F0.....60-73 MPH...LIGHT DAMAGE
F1....73-112 MPH...MODERATE DAMAGE
F2...113-157 MPH...CONSIDERABLE DAMAGE
F3...158-206 MPH...SEVERE DAMAGE
F4...207-260 MPH...DEVASTATING DAMAGE
F5...261-318 MPH...INCREDIBLE DAMAGE
