{"id":239602,"date":"2025-03-18T15:17:31","date_gmt":"2025-03-18T12:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pogodnik.com\/?p=239602"},"modified":"2025-03-18T15:17:31","modified_gmt":"2025-03-18T12:17:31","slug":"monster-ef-4-tornadoes-flatten-homes-in-arkansas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pogodnik.com\/en\/news\/monster-ef-4-tornadoes-flatten-homes-in-arkansas","title":{"rendered":"Monster EF-4 Tornadoes Flatten Homes in Arkansas"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Monster EF-4 Tornadoes Flatten Homes in Arkansas: Deadliest Outbreak of 2025 Leaves 40 Dead Across the South<\/h1>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-229122\" src=\"https:\/\/pogodnik.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/depicting_the_intense_1.webp\" alt=\"Tornado EF-4 and Floods\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1078\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pogodnik.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/depicting_the_intense_1.webp 1920w, https:\/\/pogodnik.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=300,height=168,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/depicting_the_intense_1.webp 300w, https:\/\/pogodnik.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=600,height=337,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/depicting_the_intense_1.webp 600w, https:\/\/pogodnik.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=768,height=431,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/depicting_the_intense_1.webp 768w, https:\/\/pogodnik.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=1536,height=862,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/depicting_the_intense_1.webp 1536w, https:\/\/pogodnik.com\/cdn-cgi\/image\/width=150,height=84,fit=crop,quality=80,format=auto,onerror=redirect,metadata=none\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/depicting_the_intense_1.webp 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Little Rock, Arkansas \u2013 March 18, 2025 \u2013 Hold onto your hats, folks, because Mother Nature just unleashed a nightmare across the southern U.S.! The National Weather Service (NWS) has confirmed that two ferocious tornadoes in Arkansas, both rated EF-4, tore through Jackson and Izard Counties on March 17, clocking peak winds of 190 mph and 170 mph, respectively. These twisters are the strongest of a deadly multi-state outbreak that\u2019s claimed at least 40 lives\u2014and counting.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-media-max-width=\"560\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Cave City, Arkansas after the storms. \ud83d\ude4f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dED7FQ78C0\">pic.twitter.com\/dED7FQ78C0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jen (@JPo1369) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JPo1369\/status\/1901253751563833523?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 16, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The first beast touched down near Diaz in Jackson County, leaving a trail of destruction that\u2019ll make your jaw drop. According to local station KAIT, at least three people were injured\u2014including a police officer whose cruiser flipped like a pancake. Officials are still sorting out whether the tornado or the broader storm system was to blame.<\/p>\n<p>Not to be outdone, the second EF-4 roared through Larkin in Izard County, flattening everything in its path with winds that could\u2019ve peeled paint off a barn. The NWS in Little Rock says these are the first EF-4s to hit Arkansas since December 2021, when a twister trashed Bay in Craighead County\u2014and the first in their jurisdiction since 2014. Talk about a rare and terrifying comeback!<\/p>\n<p>But Arkansas wasn\u2019t alone in this chaos. The outbreak, which kicked off Friday, spawned a swarm of tornadoes across the South. Cave City saw an EF-3 rip through, while another EF-2 joined the party elsewhere in the state. Beyond Arkansas, the carnage spread: Missouri took the hardest hit with 12 deaths, Mississippi mourned six, and Arkansas added three to the grim tally. Meanwhile, Kansas and the Texas Panhandle saw 11 killed in dust storm pileups\u2014yes, dust storms!\u2014and Oklahoma lost one to wildfires whipped up by the same wicked winds. Those fires also injured 112 and torched hundreds of homes.<\/p>\n<p>Back in Arkansas, survey teams are still combing through the wreckage, promising more updates as they piece together this disaster puzzle. Social media is buzzing with videos of the Diaz aftermath\u2014think apocalyptic scenes straight out of a Hollywood blockbuster. The NWS warns this outbreak isn\u2019t done surprising us yet, so Southerners, keep your eyes on the sky and your emergency kits close.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned, America\u2014this is one weather story that\u2019s far from over!<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pogodnik.com\/en\/news\/hurricane-season-2025\">Hurricane Season 2025: Meteorologists Are Already<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Little Rock, Arkansas \u2013 March 18, 2025 \u2013 Hold onto your hats, folks, because Mother Nature just unleashed a nightmare across the southern U.S.! The National Weather Service (NWS) has confirmed that two ferocious tornadoes in Arkansas, both rated EF-4, tore through Jackson and Izard Counties on March 17, clocking peak winds of 190 mph and 170 mph, respectively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":229122,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"set","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,6649],"class_list":["post-239602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-nature-disasters","tag-tornado"],"acf":[],"wpml_data":{"original_post_id":239602,"trid":"1434054","lang":"en","source_lang":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pogodnik.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pogodnik.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pogodnik.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pogodnik.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pogodnik.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pogodnik.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pogodnik.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pogodnik.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pogodnik.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}