Power Outage in Fayetteville, AR

This tornado developed and moved across highly rugged and wooded terrain. It uprooted trees and snapped a few power poles. Based on this damage, maximum estimated wind in the tornado was 90 to 100 mph.

This tornado developed and moved across highly rugged and wooded terrain. It uprooted trees and snapped a few power poles. Based on this damage, maximum estimated wind in the tornado was 90 to 100 mph.

Strong thunderstorm wind blew down trees and power poles.

High wind damaged the roofs of homes, uprooted a few trees, and snapped power poles.

Strong thunderstorm wind snapped large tree limbs and blew down power poles.

Strong thunderstorm wind blew down power lines near Morningside Drive and 15th Street on the southeast side of Fayetteville.

Strong thunderstorm wind blew down power lines.

Several trees and power lines were blown down by strong thunderstorm winds.

Strong thunderstorm wind blew down a large tree and power lines.

Power lines were blown down by strong thunderstorm wind in south Fayetteville.

Strong thunderstorm wind blew down large tree limbs and power lines on West Deane Street.

Strong thunderstorm wind blew down power lines and large tree limbs.

This segment is the second of six segments of this long-track tornado. The tornado moved into Washington County snapping numerous trees as it approached the town of Cincinnati. In Cincinnati, the tornado destroyed several permanent homes, destroyed the volunteer fire station, destroyed a mobile home, damaged several other permanent homes, snapped or uprooted numerous trees, snapped numerous power poles, and destroyed barns and outbuildings. Two people were killed in the mobile home that was destroyed and a third person was killed either in or near a barn while he was tending to his cattle. At least seven injuries also occurred. The tornado was about 300 yards wide when it went through town. The maximum estimated wind speed in the tornado based on this damage was 140 mph.||The tornado continued to move rapidly northeastward and widened to about 500 yards northeast of Cincinnati. Several permanent homes were severely damaged, several mobile homes were destroyed, at least four chicken houses were destroyed, outbuildings were destroyed, numerous trees were snapped or uprooted, and power poles were snapped. A woman in one of the mobile homes that was destroyed was transported to a hospital with serious injuries. She later died from those injuries on January 4th.||The tornado continued into Benton County, Arkansas.

This segment is the second of six segments of this long-track tornado. The tornado moved into Washington County snapping numerous trees as it approached the town of Cincinnati. In Cincinnati, the tornado destroyed several permanent homes, destroyed the volunteer fire station, destroyed a mobile home, damaged several other permanent homes, snapped or uprooted numerous trees, snapped numerous power poles, and destroyed barns and outbuildings. Two people were killed in the mobile home that was destroyed and a third person was killed either in or near a barn while he was tending to his cattle. At least seven injuries also occurred. The tornado was about 300 yards wide when it went through town. The maximum estimated wind speed in the tornado based on this damage was 140 mph.||The tornado continued to move rapidly northeastward and widened to about 500 yards northeast of Cincinnati. Several permanent homes were severely damaged, several mobile homes were destroyed, at least four chicken houses were destroyed, outbuildings were destroyed, numerous trees were snapped or uprooted, and power poles were snapped. A woman in one of the mobile homes that was destroyed was transported to a hospital with serious injuries. She later died from those injuries on January 4th.||The tornado continued into Benton County, Arkansas.

This segment is the sixth of six segments of this long-track tornado. The tornado overturned a box truck on Highway 412, injuring its driver, severely damaged a couple permanent homes, severely damaged a mobile home, snapped or uprooted numerous trees, and snapped numerous power poles. The maximum estimated wind speed in this segment of the tornado based on this damage was 125 mph.

This segment is the sixth of six segments of this long-track tornado. The tornado overturned a box truck on Highway 412, injuring its driver, severely damaged a couple permanent homes, severely damaged a mobile home, snapped or uprooted numerous trees, and snapped numerous power poles. The maximum estimated wind speed in this segment of the tornado based on this damage was 125 mph.

Strong thunderstorm wind blew down several power poles.

An NWS storm survey determined that a strong tornado caused major damage to a permanent home, damaged several other homes, caused extensive tree damage, and snapped power poles.

The automated observing equipment at Drake Field measured a 58 mile an hour wind gust. Numerous trees and power lines were downed by the strong wind across the county.

Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down numerous trees. Several of the trees blocked roads. Power lines were also blown down leaving 6000 customers without electricity.

Strong wind blew down trees and power lines.

Thunderstorm winds estimated at 60 miles an hour blew down two main line power poles along Garland Avenue. This caused power to be cut off to 1400 customers.

Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour downed trees and power lines. The wind also damaged the roof of an apartment building. Twelve residents of the apartment building were displaced as water poured through the damaged roof and through their ceilings.

Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew down trees and power lines.

Thunderstorm winds estimated at 70 miles an hour blew trees and power lines down across Washington county.

Thunderstorm winds blew down power lines.

A strong upper level disturbance translated from far west Texas through the Southern Plains on the 24th and 25th. Precipitation began as rain across the area during the morning of the 24th, but changed to snow during the afternoon and evening. Some of the snow was heavy at times, resulting in a swath of snow from four to ten inches across much of northwestern Arkansas. The heavy, wet snow snapped tree limbs onto power lines, and resulted in widespread power outages.

Precipitation developed into eastern Oklahoma and northwestern Arkansas during the early morning of the 22nd, as a storm system approached the area from the Southern Rockies, drawing warm and moist air over retreating arctic air that was already in place. The precipitation began as snow and sleet, but changed to freezing rain across portions of northwest Arkansas during the morning of the 22nd. The freezing rain continued through midday of the 23rd, and resulted in one quarter to one half inch accumulation across portions of Washington, Crawford, and Franklin Counties. Hundreds of power outages were reported, as ice accumulated on power lines.

Arctic air spread across northwestern Arkansas on the 4th as a strong storm system developed across the western United States. Several upper level disturbances moved through the south central part of the country on the 5th through the 6th, resulting in widespread wintry precipitation across the region beginning during the morning hours of the 5th. The precipitation fell as mainly freezing rain across west central Arkansas and as snow and sleet across northwestern Arkansas. The precipitation changed to all snow by the time it ended on the 6th. By the end of the storm, portions of west central Arkansas received over an inch of ice. Power outages were widespread across Sebastian, Franklin, and Crawford Counties, some of which lasted for close to two weeks. Four inches of snow fell atop the ice across west central Arkansas while portions of far northwestern Arkansas received a foot of snow from this storm. Roads were snow and ice covered and some rural roads were closed for over a week. A federally-declared disaster declaration was made for this winter storm, which included Crawford, Franklin, Sebastian, and Madison Counties.

A strong storm system moved from the southern Rockies into the Southern Plains on the 20th and 21st. Snow began during the morning of the 20th across the region and some heavy snow fell before it gradually transitioned to sleet and freezing rain during the evening of the 20th and early morning hours of the 21st. Freezing rain and sleet continued during the morning of the 21st with some ice accumulations of 1/4 to 1/2 of an inch. Some power outages occurred as a result of the ice in northwestern Arkansas.

Upper level disturbances passing through the Southern Plains resulted in precipitation development north of a stationary arctic front located in North Texas. Freezing rain began across the area during the early afternoon hours of the 26th and became more widespread and heavy through the afternoon and evening hours. The heaviest icing and most widespread power outages and tree damage occurred across portions of Washington, Madison, Benton, and Carroll Counties where one to two inch accumulations were reported. At the height of the storm, 75 percent of electric customers were without power in Benton County and nearly 100 percent were without power in Carroll County. Some remote, rural customers continued to be without power for more than two weeks. ||Before the precipitation ended across northwest Arkansas, the freezing rain changed to sleet with one to two inch accumulations falling across portions of the region on top of the very heavy ice.||One direct injury occurred from the storm in northwest Arkansas. A woman was injured by ice coated tree limbs that fell on her in Springdale.

Hurricane Ike made landfall near Galveston, Texas around 2 am cdt on 9/13 and moved northward across northern Texas to near Tyler and then northeastward into Arkansas near Ozark during the early morning hours of the 14th. The combination of a cold front passing into the region and the proximity of the tropical storm to the area resulted in high winds across much of northwest Arkansas. Trees, large tree limbs, and power lines were blown down. Some trees fell onto and blocked roads while some others fell on homes and businesses. Many areas were without power during the passage of the storm. Localized flash flooding occurred in northwest Arkansas as a result of Ike's rainfall.

The pressure gradient associated with a very strong cold front resulted in strong, damaging winds across much of northwestern Arkansas. Large tree limbs were blown down, power poles and lines were blown down, shingles were removed from the roofs of a number of homes, and barns were damaged.

An arctic cold front moved into northwestern Arkansas during the morning hours of the 12th and continued to move through the region during the day. A strong upper level low pressure system moved into the Southern Rockies and several disturbances translated across the Southern Plains bringing periods of heavy sleet and freezing rain to the region. The worst damage from the storm in northwestern Arkansas occurred in Benton County where heavy ice brought down a large number of power lines and power poles resulting in power outages to several towns in the northern and northwestern portion of the county.

A powerful upper level system moving southeast into the area from the central Rockies produced heavy snow across the northwest corner of Arkansas from the mid morning hours intol the late afternoon hours. Several accidents occurred due to the snow but no serious injuries were reported. Some snowfall amounts included 7 inches at Bella Vista, 6 inches at Eureka Springs and 5 inches at Bentonville, Siloam Springs, Berrryville, Green Forrest, Fayetteville and Springdale.

Heavy snow began to fall across northwest Arkansas during the early afternoon hours of the 23rd in response to the approach of an upper level system moving out of the southern rockies into the southern plains. The snow fell at a rate of one to two inches an hour across Benton and Carroll counties and the northern part of Washington and Madison counties. The heavy snow caused roads to become slick and hazardous and several automobiles slid into ditches or into each other. The heavy snow also caused a few power outages including one that halted service to two hundred customers between Fayetteville and Elkins. The snow let up and stopped accumulating during the early evening hours with several location reporting 4 to 8 inches of snow. The snow started accumulating again during the early morning hours of the 24th before finally letting up for good later that morning. Another two to four inches accumulated during that time span. Some total snowfall reports for the 23rd and 24th included: 15 inches at Rockhouse, 12 inches at Berryville, 10 inches at Eureka Springs, 7 inches at Rogers, 7 inches at Bentonville, 6 inches at Huntsville, 6 inches at Springdale and 5 inches at Fayetteville.

An upper level system system moving out of the desert southwest interacted with cold air in place across northwest Arkansas to produce freezing rain from the evening hours of December 3rd into the morning hours of December 4th. While roads remained mainly wet and few accidents occurred until the afternoon of the 4th when snow fell, ice formed on power lines and trees. This ice resulted in 14,400 homes and businesses to be without power at one time or another. The outages were less numerous across the western parts of Washington and Benton counties but became more widespread to the east near and into Carroll and Madison counties. A few of the communities hit the hardest were Bethel Heights, Lowell, Elkins, Wesley, Hindsville and Eureka Springs. The inclement weather caused school closings in Eureka Springs, Huntsville and Green Forrest.

A slow moving winter storm moved across the Southern Plains on Christmas day bringing freezing rain and dangerous ice accumulations to all of Northwest Arkansas. The freezing precipitation slowed or prevented most traffic, stranding many motorists and leaving numerous communities without power. The precipitation lasted until mid-day on the 27th of December. Ice accumulations of 1 to 2 inches were common with locally higher amounts in some areas. In Fort Smith, the 117-year old Newspaper was shut down on the 26th of December for the first time ever. Over 10,000 customers in Northwest Arkansas were without electricity after utility lines were snapped due to falling tree branches. Numerous accidents and dozens of stranded motorists were reported in much of Northwest Arkansas. While damages from this storm are expected to be large, estimates were not available at the time of this publication.

Summary of winter weather on December 12, 2000.A powerful winter storm developed over the Southern Plains and produced a mixture of snow...sleet and some freezing rain. Precipitation was mostly in the form of snow over Benton, Carroll, Washington and Madison counties, while a mixture of sleet and freezing rain occurred further south in West Central Arkansas. In far Northwest Arkansas, up to 10 inches of snow was reported by late afternoon on the 12th of December. Further south in Crawford county, freezing rain caused extensive power losses. The sheriff's office in Crawford county reported blackouts in Uniontown, Alma, Kibler, Mountainburg, Rudy and Georgia Ridge. Other counties in West Central Arkansas reported only scattered power losses. Numerous accidents were reported south of Fayetteville on ice-slickened Interstate 540, where large trucks could not make it up steep hills. Most businesses, schools and other entities were closed for the day. While damages from this storm are expected to be large, estimates were not available at the time of publication.Some snowfall totals include Bella Vista...10, Rogers...10, Bentonville...7, Siloam Springs...7, Berryville...6, Fayetteville...6, Mulberry...5, Huntsville...4, Springdale...4, Cedarville...3, Ozark...3, Clarksville...3, Van Buren...3, Fort Smith...2, Greenwood...2, Midland...1.