PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
908 PM CDT TUE APR 4 2006
...PRELIMINARY MID SOUTH TORNADO DAMAGE ASSESSMENTS FROM THE MAJOR
TORNADO OUTBREAK OF APRIL 2 2006...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PERSONNEL IN MEMPHIS CONTINUE TO CONDUCT
STORM DAMAGE ASSESSMENTS ACROSS THE MID SOUTH WITH ADDITIONAL DAMAGE
ASSESSMENTS TO CONTINUE INTO WEDNESDAY.
PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT OF THE RANDOLPH...LAWRENCE...AND GREENE
COUNTIES (ARKANSAS) AS WELL AS DUNKLIN AND PEMISCOT (MISSOURI)
COUNTIES TORNADO DAMAGE:
A STORM DAMAGE ASSESSMENT SURVEYED DAMAGE FROM RAVENDEN IN LAWRENCE
COUNTY TO CARUTHERSVILLE IN PEMISCOT COUNTY. IT APPEARS THAT THE
TORNADO FIRST TOUCHED DOWN A FEW MILES WEST OF RAVENDEN AND THEN
MOVED INTO RAVENDEN AS AN F0 TORNADO WITH A 200 YARD PATH. SEVERAL
WOODEN AND METAL SHEDS WERE DESTROYED...ALONG WITH A ROOF OF AN
OLDER HOUSE BLOWN OFF. FROM THERE THE TORNADO APPEARED TO MOVE
THROUGH IMBODEN AND THEN INTO POCAHONTAS. F1 DAMAGE WAS OBSERVED ONE
MILE SOUTH OF POCAHONTAS NEAR ROAD 67 AND ARKANSAS 90...WITH A WIDTH
OF 300 YARDS. SEVERAL HOMES WERE DAMAGED WITH ONE ROOF COMPLETELY
GONE. FROM POCAHONTAS TO LAFE THE TORNADO APPEARED TO SKIP WITH
GENERALLY F0 DAMAGE. AS THE TORNADO MOVED INTO LAFE IT BEGAN TO
WIND UP AND PRODUCED F1 TO F2 DAMAGE UNTIL THE TORNADO REACHED
MARMADUKE. IN MARMADUKE THE TORNADO REACHED F3 AND POSSIBLE HIGHER
INTENSITIES ALONG WITH WIDTH OF HALF A MILE TO THREE QUARTERS OF A
MILE. SOME OF THE DAMAGE IN MARMADUKE INCLUDED NUMEROUS HOUSES
DESTROYED...ALONG WITH 15 RAILROAD CARS WERE LIFTED OFF THE TRACK AND
BLOWN OVER. AS OF MONDAY EVENING 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 LEFT HERE IT
APPEARED TO WEAKEN IN STRENGTH TO AN F0 TO 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. AS THE TORNADO
MOVED INTO THE TOWN OF BRAGGADOCIO...THE F2 TORNADO INJURED 2 AND
KILLED 1 AS THEY WERE TRYING TO FLEE THE TORNADO. THE TORNADO
APPEARED TO BE ON THE GROUND FROM 5 MILES EAST TO CARUTHERSVILLE AND
THEN CONTINUED INTO DYER COUNTY.
IN CARUTHERSVILLE...PRELIMINARY ESTIMATES OF 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. THE TORNADO HAS BEEN RATED AN F3 AS WELL.
PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT OF THE DYER COUNTY (TENNESSEE) TORNADO
(UPDATED):
A STORM DAMAGE ASSESSMENT TEAM SURVEYED THE DAMAGE ACROSS DYER
COUNTY ON MONDAY. THIS TORNADO WAS A CONTINUATION FROM THE TORNADIC
THUNDERSTORM IN CARUTHERSVILLE MISSOURI AND TRAVELED FOR 18 MILES
BEFORE DISSIPATING IN NEWBERN TENNESSEE (DYER COUNTY). PRELIMINARY
F-SCALE ASSESSMENT RATES THIS TORNADO AT A STRONG F3 TORNADO WITH
ESTIMATED WINDS AROUND 200 MPH. NUMEROUS HOMES WERE DESTROYED WITH
ADDITIONAL PROPERTY DAMAGE NOTED. THERE WERE 16 FATALITIES WITH THIS
STORM (UPDATED FROM 15 FATALITIES).
PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT OF THE GIBSON COUNTY (TENNESSEE) TORNADO:
AFTER THIS TORNADO DISSIPATED...ANOTHER TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN IN
GIBSON COUNTY TENNESSEE JUST EAST OF YORKVILLE 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...ESPECIALLY ON TAYLOR
ROAD JUST EAST OF HIGHWAY 45. THE STORM CONTINUED EAST THROUGH
WEAKLEY AND CARROLL COUNTIES IN TENNESSEE WHICH WILL HAVE A STORM
DAMAGE ASSESSMENT CONDUCTED ON TUESDAY.
ANOTHER TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WAS ASSOCIATED WITH A SECOND SUPERCELL
UNRELATED TO THE DYER COUNTY SUPERCELL. THE TORNADO 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. PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENTS RATE THIS TORNADO AS AN 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.
ASSESSMENT OF HAYWOOD COUNTY (TENNESSEE) TORNADO:
ANOTHER TEAM SURVEYED DAMAGE FROM A TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM 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 OF A 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.
ASSESSMENT OF THE CROSS COUNTY (ARKANSAS) TORNADO:
A TEAM FROM NWS LITTLE ROCK SURVEYED DAMAGE FROM A TORNADIC
THUNDERSTORM THAT BEGAN 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 STRIKE THE 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
PRELIMINARY RATING OF F3 WAS GIVEN TO THE TORNADO WITH ESTIMATED
WINDS OF 200 MPH. THERE WERE 5 INJURIES IN CROSS COUNTY. THANKS TO
LITTLE ROCK FOR THEIR HELP. THERE WILL BE MORE UPDATES TO COME ON
THIS STORM IN THE FUTURE. AFTER EXITING THE PARKIN AREA...F0 DAMAGE
WAS OBSERVED INTO CRITTENDEN COUNTY BEFORE LIFTING JUST EAST OF
CRAWFORDSVILLE.
STORM SURVEY ASSESSMENT OF THE CARROLL COUNTY (TENNESSEE) TORNADO:
THIS TORNADO WAS FROM THE ORIGINAL SUPERCELL THAT MOVED THROUGH
GIBSON COUNTY AND IMPACTED BRADFORD. 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
RATING OF 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.
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
$$
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE MEMPHIS TN
908 PM CDT TUE APR 4 2006
...PRELIMINARY MID SOUTH TORNADO DAMAGE ASSESSMENTS FROM THE MAJOR
TORNADO OUTBREAK OF APRIL 2 2006...
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE PERSONNEL IN MEMPHIS CONTINUE TO CONDUCT
STORM DAMAGE ASSESSMENTS ACROSS THE MID SOUTH WITH ADDITIONAL DAMAGE
ASSESSMENTS TO CONTINUE INTO WEDNESDAY.
PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT OF THE RANDOLPH...LAWRENCE...AND GREENE
COUNTIES (ARKANSAS) AS WELL AS DUNKLIN AND PEMISCOT (MISSOURI)
COUNTIES TORNADO DAMAGE:
A STORM DAMAGE ASSESSMENT SURVEYED DAMAGE FROM RAVENDEN IN LAWRENCE
COUNTY TO CARUTHERSVILLE IN PEMISCOT COUNTY. IT APPEARS THAT THE
TORNADO FIRST TOUCHED DOWN A FEW MILES WEST OF RAVENDEN AND THEN
MOVED INTO RAVENDEN AS AN F0 TORNADO WITH A 200 YARD PATH. SEVERAL
WOODEN AND METAL SHEDS WERE DESTROYED...ALONG WITH A ROOF OF AN
OLDER HOUSE BLOWN OFF. FROM THERE THE TORNADO APPEARED TO MOVE
THROUGH IMBODEN AND THEN INTO POCAHONTAS. F1 DAMAGE WAS OBSERVED ONE
MILE SOUTH OF POCAHONTAS NEAR ROAD 67 AND ARKANSAS 90...WITH A WIDTH
OF 300 YARDS. SEVERAL HOMES WERE DAMAGED WITH ONE ROOF COMPLETELY
GONE. FROM POCAHONTAS TO LAFE THE TORNADO APPEARED TO SKIP WITH
GENERALLY F0 DAMAGE. AS THE TORNADO MOVED INTO LAFE IT BEGAN TO
WIND UP AND PRODUCED F1 TO F2 DAMAGE UNTIL THE TORNADO REACHED
MARMADUKE. IN MARMADUKE THE TORNADO REACHED F3 AND POSSIBLE HIGHER
INTENSITIES ALONG WITH WIDTH OF HALF A MILE TO THREE QUARTERS OF A
MILE. SOME OF THE DAMAGE IN MARMADUKE INCLUDED NUMEROUS HOUSES
DESTROYED...ALONG WITH 15 RAILROAD CARS WERE LIFTED OFF THE TRACK AND
BLOWN OVER. AS OF MONDAY EVENING 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 LEFT HERE IT
APPEARED TO WEAKEN IN STRENGTH TO AN F0 TO 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. AS THE TORNADO
MOVED INTO THE TOWN OF BRAGGADOCIO...THE F2 TORNADO INJURED 2 AND
KILLED 1 AS THEY WERE TRYING TO FLEE THE TORNADO. THE TORNADO
APPEARED TO BE ON THE GROUND FROM 5 MILES EAST TO CARUTHERSVILLE AND
THEN CONTINUED INTO DYER COUNTY.
IN CARUTHERSVILLE...PRELIMINARY ESTIMATES OF 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. THE TORNADO HAS BEEN RATED AN F3 AS WELL.
PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT OF THE DYER COUNTY (TENNESSEE) TORNADO
(UPDATED):
A STORM DAMAGE ASSESSMENT TEAM SURVEYED THE DAMAGE ACROSS DYER
COUNTY ON MONDAY. THIS TORNADO WAS A CONTINUATION FROM THE TORNADIC
THUNDERSTORM IN CARUTHERSVILLE MISSOURI AND TRAVELED FOR 18 MILES
BEFORE DISSIPATING IN NEWBERN TENNESSEE (DYER COUNTY). PRELIMINARY
F-SCALE ASSESSMENT RATES THIS TORNADO AT A STRONG F3 TORNADO WITH
ESTIMATED WINDS AROUND 200 MPH. NUMEROUS HOMES WERE DESTROYED WITH
ADDITIONAL PROPERTY DAMAGE NOTED. THERE WERE 16 FATALITIES WITH THIS
STORM (UPDATED FROM 15 FATALITIES).
PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENT OF THE GIBSON COUNTY (TENNESSEE) TORNADO:
AFTER THIS TORNADO DISSIPATED...ANOTHER TORNADO TOUCHED DOWN IN
GIBSON COUNTY TENNESSEE JUST EAST OF YORKVILLE 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...ESPECIALLY ON TAYLOR
ROAD JUST EAST OF HIGHWAY 45. THE STORM CONTINUED EAST THROUGH
WEAKLEY AND CARROLL COUNTIES IN TENNESSEE WHICH WILL HAVE A STORM
DAMAGE ASSESSMENT CONDUCTED ON TUESDAY.
ANOTHER TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM WAS ASSOCIATED WITH A SECOND SUPERCELL
UNRELATED TO THE DYER COUNTY SUPERCELL. THE TORNADO 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. PRELIMINARY ASSESSMENTS RATE THIS TORNADO AS AN 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.
ASSESSMENT OF HAYWOOD COUNTY (TENNESSEE) TORNADO:
ANOTHER TEAM SURVEYED DAMAGE FROM A TORNADIC THUNDERSTORM 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 OF A 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.
ASSESSMENT OF THE CROSS COUNTY (ARKANSAS) TORNADO:
A TEAM FROM NWS LITTLE ROCK SURVEYED DAMAGE FROM A TORNADIC
THUNDERSTORM THAT BEGAN 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 STRIKE THE 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
PRELIMINARY RATING OF F3 WAS GIVEN TO THE TORNADO WITH ESTIMATED
WINDS OF 200 MPH. THERE WERE 5 INJURIES IN CROSS COUNTY. THANKS TO
LITTLE ROCK FOR THEIR HELP. THERE WILL BE MORE UPDATES TO COME ON
THIS STORM IN THE FUTURE. AFTER EXITING THE PARKIN AREA...F0 DAMAGE
WAS OBSERVED INTO CRITTENDEN COUNTY BEFORE LIFTING JUST EAST OF
CRAWFORDSVILLE.
STORM SURVEY ASSESSMENT OF THE CARROLL COUNTY (TENNESSEE) TORNADO:
THIS TORNADO WAS FROM THE ORIGINAL SUPERCELL THAT MOVED THROUGH
GIBSON COUNTY AND IMPACTED BRADFORD. 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
RATING OF 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.
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
$$