Power Outage in Russellville, AR

A tree was blown down over power lines.

The local coordinator reported just over 2000 residents without power as a result of severe weather.

Highway 7 and East H St. in Russellville was blocked by downed power lines.

We received a media report of multiple trees and power lines down.

Numerous trees and powerlines were down across the county. A tree fell on a home in Russellville.

Powerlines were blown down and a roof was blown off a chicken house. Several trees were snapped.

Trees were down on power lines on Skyline Dr.

Trees and power lines were down in Russellville.

A wooden power pole was blown down on the west side of Russellville. With no other significant damage in the immediate area based on a picture from social media, estimated wind speeds were around 50 mph.

Thunderstorm winds blew down trees and power lines.

Power lines were blown down along with power poles snapped. The power lines were hanging just feet above the ground across U.S. Hwy 64 between Atkins and Pottsville.

Several trees were uprooted and power lines were down in the area.

Numerous trees and power lines were blown down.

Some power poles were blown down near the intersection of Weir Road and East Main Street in Russellville.

Trees and power lines were blown down at highway 7 and Bakers Creek Road.

Some windows and a portion of a wall was blown out of the top floor of the two story Moor Building. Other businesses had roof damage, and many lost power due to the high winds.

Trees and power lines were blown down.

A tree was blown down in Russellville, and there were reports of trees and power lines down across the county.

An EF1 tornado destroyed a chicken house, which had no chickens in it. Two other chicken houses had minor damage. A mobile home was overturned. Trees and power lines were blown down.

An EF1 tornado destroyed a chicken house, which had no chickens in it. Two other chicken houses had minor damage. A mobile home was overturned. Trees and power lines were blown down.

Thunderstorm winds blew down trees and power lines.

Sleet and snow totaled 4.7 inches 3 miles southwest of Dover (CoCoRaHS), 2.7 inches 2 miles southwest of Long Pool (cooperative observer), 2.1 inches 0.7 mile west of Russellville (CoCoRaHS), 2 inches 6.9 miles east of Dover (CoCoRaHS), and 1.5 inches at Pottsville (cooperative observer) and 7.3 miles east-northeast of Russellville (CoCoRaHS). An ice storm occurred in the northern part of the county, knocking down trees and power lines (utility company).

A tree was blown down, knocking down power lines.

Power lines were blown down northwest of Shiloh.

Trees and power lines were blown down. A trained spotter estimated winds near 80 mph.

Power lines and small trees were blown down at Long Pool.

Trees, power poles, and power lines were blown down. One of the trees fell on a house. Arkansas Highway 27 was blocked for several hours.

Multiple trees and power lines were blown down.

Trees and power lines were blown down in the Russellville area.

Many trees and power lines were blown down. Tin roofs were damaged on farm buildings. A hay barn was blown down. Power poles were snapped, carports were destroyed, and business signs were blown out.

Numerous power lines were down across Pope County.

Large trees and power lines were down on the south side of Russellville.

Large tree limbs were down on power lines.

The state police reported 8 to 12 inches of snow in the Russellville area. Interstate 40 was blocked in both directions by jackknifed tractor trailers at the 88 and 84 mile markers. An amount of 13.0 inches was reported on a bluff overlooking the Arkansas River near Russellville. The weather contributed to 10 motor vehicle accidents. Five reports of property damage caused by snow were received. A semi-truck got stuck trying to make it up Skyline Drive. The Arkansas River bridge on Arkansas Highway 7 was closed temporarily. About 2000 people lost power.

The tornado moved out of the Carden Bottoms area of Yell County, crossing the Arkansas River, and re-entering Pope County southwest of Atkins. The intensity and width of the tornado increased quickly within just a couple of miles after it moved across the Arkansas River. According to a survey by the Red Cross, damage included 46 houses destroyed, 19 houses with major damage, 37 houses with minor damage, and 2 other houses affected. In addition, 6 mobile homes were destroyed, 1 mobile home had major damage, and 4 others suffered minor damage. Several businesses were damaged as well. Numerous trees, power lines, and power poles were blown down. Several vehicles were blown off Interstate 40 as the tornado crossed the highway. One fatality occurred in the Lucky Landing area when a woman was thrown from her mobile home. Three fatalities, all members of a single family, occurred at a house on the east side of Atkins. Another fatality occurred in the Happy Bend community when a man left his mobile home and took shelter in a large, metal, intermodal shipping container. The container was blown hundreds of yards into the woods. The tornado then moved into Conway County, in the area west of Hattieville.

The tornado moved out of the Carden Bottoms area of Yell County, crossing the Arkansas River, and re-entering Pope County southwest of Atkins. The intensity and width of the tornado increased quickly within just a couple of miles after it moved across the Arkansas River. According to a survey by the Red Cross, damage included 46 houses destroyed, 19 houses with major damage, 37 houses with minor damage, and 2 other houses affected. In addition, 6 mobile homes were destroyed, 1 mobile home had major damage, and 4 others suffered minor damage. Several businesses were damaged as well. Numerous trees, power lines, and power poles were blown down. Several vehicles were blown off Interstate 40 as the tornado crossed the highway. One fatality occurred in the Lucky Landing area when a woman was thrown from her mobile home. Three fatalities, all members of a single family, occurred at a house on the east side of Atkins. Another fatality occurred in the Happy Bend community when a man left his mobile home and took shelter in a large, metal, intermodal shipping container. The container was blown hundreds of yards into the woods. The tornado then moved into Conway County, in the area west of Hattieville.

Power lines and trees were reported down causing numerous fires across the county. Eighty-three hundred customers were reportedly without power in the Russellville area. At least one boat dock on Lake Dardanelle in London was damaged after winds blew the dock and moored boats about 100 yards and into a levee.

Thunderstorm winds downed some trees and power lines. Two houses sustained minor roof damage from the falling trees.

Trees and power lines were blown down across the county.

Thunderstorm winds downed some trees and power lines. Several homes sustained roof damage due to fallen trees and blown off shingles from the high winds.

A strong tornado moved out of Yell County and into Pope County about 5.3 miles south of Russellville. Winds were estimated around 140 mph. The tornado downed a number of trees and power lines. Several houses sustained roof damage. The tornado dissipated roughly 5.5 miles south-southeast of Russellville.

Numerous trees and power lines were blown down throughout the Russellville area. A number of power outages were also reported.

Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines at Russellville.

A line of strong to severe storms developed ahead of the front, with the most robust storms closest to the Missouri border after 500 pm CST. One storm in particular went from southeast Boone County into southern Marion County and northwest Baxter County. The storm had strong rotation at times and it headed quickly to the northeast at 40 to 50 mph. There was plenty of chaos in the path of the storm, and no doubt that one or more tornadoes were in play.||A house was damaged east of Everton (Boone County), and power lines were downed. Between Pyatt and Bruno (both in Marion County), several homes were damaged or destroyed with an injury reported. A school was also affected. A tree fell through a house west of Mountain Home (Baxter County).||In the end, two tornadoes (rated EF1/EF2) were spawned in a three county area. Three more weak tornadoes (all rated EF1) were confirmed with separate storms from five miles north of Hector (Pope County) to six miles west-southwest of Rupert (Van Buren County), and from four miles northeast of Evening Shade to four miles north of Poughkeepsie (both in Sharp County). These tornadoes toppled trees and hit a couple of barns and outbuildings.||This event did not feature a lot of rain, and there was only 0.01 inch measured at Little Rock (Pulaski County) on the 19th. But, this was enough to make it eleven consecutive days with measurable precipitation. It was one day away from tying the all-time record of twelve days in a row. A trace of rain on the 20th ended the streak.

But all was not well in the higher elevations of the Ozark and Ouachita Mountains of the north and west. A balloon launch from North Little Rock (Pulaski County) at 600 pm CST on the 22nd showed a layer of subfreezing air not far above the ground and extending to around 3000 feet.||An inversion (rising temperatures) existed farther aloft at 4000 and 5000 feet. Snow and sleet that fell through this layer tended to melt, and then froze in the subfreezing layer.||During the evening of the 22nd, an ice storm was in progress. Photos showed some buildup on branches near Mountain Home (Baxter County). A check of temperatures at a few mountain locations at 400 am CST on the 23rd revealed a reading of 29 degrees at Jasper (Newton County), and 31 degrees at Alco (Stone County) and Compton (Newton County).||In the end, more than a half inch of ice accrued on exposed objects in places such as Botkinburg (Van Buren County), Deer (Newton County), Moreland (Pope County), Mount Magazine (Logan County), Ozone (Johnson County), and Witts Spring (Searcy County). Ice was the most significant at elevations above 1500 feet. The weight of the ice downed numerous trees and caused hundreds of power outages.

On the 27th, temperatures climbed into the mid 80s to lower 90s. It was 92 degrees at Fort Smith (Sebastian County), and 90 degrees at De Queen (Sevier County) and Monticello (Drew County). In the southern Plains, CAPE (Convective Available Potential Energy) values were extreme (over 6000 Joules/kilogram). Unleashing this much energy would result in not only a higher potential of severe weather, but a greater magnitude of what storms could produce (strong tornadoes, giant hail, hurricane force winds, etc).||There was one limiting factor. An inversion (climbing temperatures with height) aloft was not allowing air parcels to realize all of the energy available above the inversion (the parcels were capped). As long as air parcels were suppressed, storms would be less of an issue. In fact, much of the 27th went by with no storms in the state.||The cap did break in places during the evening, especially the northeast. Storms swept from Missouri through areas north and east of Little Rock (Pulaski County), and were responsible for mainly wind damage. Wind gusts reached 60 to more than 70 mph in places.||A tree was blown onto a car at Ash Flat (Sharp County), with trees on houses in Walnut Ridge (Lawrence County), Lepanto (Poinsett County), Marion (Crittenden County), and Whitton (Mississippi County). Another tree fell onto two mobile homes at Crawfordsville (Crittenden County), and an injury resulted. Downed trees blocked Highways 141 and 358 near Walcott (Greene County). A 67 mph gust was measured at Corning (Clay County).||Toward midnight CDT, the cap broke farther west. One storm spawned a tornado (rated EF1) from Short, OK to Natural Dam (Crawford County). Along the roughly eleven mile track, some homes were damaged and outbuildings were destroyed. ||A bowing line of storms tore through barns and outbuildings at Lutherville (Johnson County) and uncorked a 62 mph gust at Russellville (Pope County). Metal roofing was removed from a row of buildings at Pottsville (Pope County). North of Morrilton (Conway County), a tree was pushed on a house.||A similar line of storms caused tree and power line damage in much of Montgomery County and caused roof damage to a dozen storage units near Hot Springs (Garland County).||By the time May ended, above average rainfall totals were common across the central and eastern counties. Amounts were one and a half to more than three inches over par at El Dorado (Union County), Jonesboro (Craighead County), Little Rock (Pulaski County), and Pine Bluff (Jefferson County).

Severe thunderstorms downed numerous trees and power lines across portions of Pope County.

Thunderstorm winds downed trees and power lines, and blew down a large banner over a street in Russellville.

Lightning accompanying a severe thunderstorm struck a house causing a power outage. However, no fire resulted.

Thunderstorm winds tore tin from a few roofs, removed roof shingles and downed trees and power lines in areas just northwest of Dover.

Thunderstorm winds moved a horse trailer, blew a deck over the top of a house, downed large tree limbs onto a few roofs causing minor damage, and knocked down trees and power lines about 2 miles southeast of Pottsville.

Thunderstorm winds blew down some trees and power lines between Dover and Moreland, and also tore the roof off of a chicken house.