Yesterday when I was in Highland, a lady mentioned some heavy damage from Thursday's storms near Williford. At the time, we had not had any confirmed tornadoes in Region 8 from last Thursday.She described the damage and it sounded credible, so I told her to contact the National Weather Service in Little Rock to confirm the damage.
Late today, John Robinson and Renee Fair surveyed the damage and confirmed that an EF 1 tornado DID touch down last Thursday. In case you missed this "breaking weather news" at 10:00... Here's the Public Information Statement:
PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE
LITTLE ROCK AR
740 PM CDT TUE APR 15 2008...
EF1 TORNADO CONFIRMED IN SHARP COUNTY
...A TORNADO WAS IDENTIFIED IN SHARP COUNTY FROM A STORM ON THURSDAY...APRIL 10TH. THE STARTING POINT WAS 1.8 MILES NORTHEAST OF WILLIFORD...AND ENDED 3.2 MILES NORTHEAST OF WILLIFORD. THE PATH LENGTH WAS 1.4 MILES...AND WAS RATED AS EF1 ON THE ENHANCED FUJITA SCALE.DAMAGE CONSISTS OF THE DESTRUCTION OF A SHED AND A CAMPING TRAILER. NUMEROUS TREES WERE ALSO BLOWN DOWN.THE SURVEY WAS PERFORMED BY JOHN ROBINSON...WARNING COORDINATION METEOROLOGIST AND RENEE FAIR...METEOROLOGIST
Interesting huh? This was the first report of tornado damage since the event... Anywho, have a a great night.
Ryan
1 comment:
That is interesting. Makes me think that the "large lowering" I emailed you & Chris about at 4am that morning may well have been a wall cloud afterall. I'm still just glad that Region-8 escaped that day with only an EF-1!
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