The National Weather Service forecast office in Little Rock confirmed Wednesday that four tornadoes moved across Southeast Arkansas on Sunday.
Tornado number one, rated an EF2, formed three miles southwest of Thornton in Calhoun County and ended 4.9 miles southwest of Rison in Cleveland County for a total path length of 19.2 miles, according to the NWS public information statement.
The NWS said that damage from the tornado in Calhoun County was mostly limited to timber, while in Dallas County, there was significant damage to houses northwest of Fordyce as well as to the country club and a set of transmission towers.
Cleveland County damage included the destruction of an 1852 church in North Kingsland and damage to timber, according to the NWS.
The storm had winds of between 111 and 135 miles per hour according to the NWS.
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Tornado number two, rated an EF2 with winds of between 111 and 135 miles per hour, formed in the town of Sweden in Jefferson County, and ended 3.45 miles northeast of Lodge Corner in Arkansas County, for a total path length of 16.9 miles.
The NWS said that in Jefferson County numerous trees were blown down, grain bins destroyed, metal buildings were damaged and farm machinery was overturned.
Arkansas County damage included two mobile homes damaged and numerous trees blown down, according to the NWS.
Tornado number three, rated an EF2 with winds of between 111 and 135 miles per hour, formed 5.5 miles west northwest of DeWitt with an undetermined ending point and path length.
The NWS said that preliminary indications are that the tornado was on the ground through at least the town of Immanuel.
The NWS survey crew reported damage to four steel transmission towers as well as damage to a few farm outbuildings, with numerous trees blown down.
Tornado number four, rated an EF1, started 8.2 miles south of DeWitt and ended three miles southeast of DeWitt, for a total path length of 9.4 miles.
The storm had winds of between 86 and 110 miles per hour according to the NWS.
In Arkansas County, the tornado blew down power lines and power poles, with several carports and sheds blown away, according to the NWS.
The NWS found that a house had the windows blown out and pieces of wood wedged into the siding, a mobile home was rolled over and destroyed with its contents blown into a nearby field, a metal building was destroyed, the wall of another one was pushed in, the NWS said.