PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
110 PM CDT MON MAY 5 2014

...MAYFLOWER/VILONIA EF4 TORNADO ON APRIL 27TH IS NOW THE DEADLIEST
SINGLE TORNADO IN ARKANSAS SINCE 1968...

THE PASSING OF A BABY IN FAULKNER COUNTY HAS RAISED THE DEATH TOLL
FROM THE MAYFLOWER/VILONIA TORNADO OF APRIL 27TH TO 16. THIS MAKES
IT THE DEADLIEST SINGLE TORNADO IN ARKANSAS SINCE A TORNADO ON MAY
15 1968...WHICH AFFECTED TUCKERMAN AND THE JONESBORO AREA...AND
KILLED 35.

THE BOOK SIGNIFICANT TORNADOES 1680-1991 BY THOMAS P. GRAZULIS SAYS
THIS ABOUT THE 1968 TORNADO...WHICH WAS RATED AS F4...

MOVED ENE THROUGH THE SOUTH PART OF TUCKERMAN. SIX HOMES WERE
DESTROYED AS THE TORNADO PASSED NEAR VALLEY VIEW...JONESBORO...
FAIRVIEW...NETTLETON...BLACK OAK...AND NEEDHAM. ABOUT 164 HOMES
WERE DESTROYED AT JONESBORO. THE ENTIRE NETTLETON SCHOOL WAS
DESTROYED. AT LEAST SEVEN CARS ON ONE STRETCH OF HIGHWAY WERE
HURLED ACROSS A NEARBY RAILWAY. SOME CARS WERE WRAPPED AROUND
TREES...KILLING THE OCCUPANTS.

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