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PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR
800 PM CDT SUN APR 6 2008

...TORNADO SURVEY ON CABOT TORNADO COMPLETED...

THIS AFTERNOON...A TEAM FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LITTLE 
ROCK SURVEYED DAMAGE IN THE CABOT AREA. THIS STORM OCCURRED ON THE 
EVENING OF APRIL 3RD.

IT WAS DETERMINED THAT A TORNADO TRACKED FROM 3.5 MILES SOUTHWEST OF 
CABOT...THROUGH RESIDENTIAL AREAS IN CABOT...TO 1.1 MILES EAST 
SOUTHEAST OF WARD...ALL IN LONOKE COUNTY. THIS WAS A PATH LENGTH OF 
9.4 MILES. THE WORST DAMAGE OCCURRED IN THE AREA WEST OF THE 
RAILROAD TRACKS.

THE TORNADO WAS RATED AS EF2 ON THE ENHANCED FUJITA SCALE.

SELF-STORAGE WAREHOUSE BUILDINGS WERE DESTROYED. IN ADDITION...TWO 
LARGE STORAGE BUILDINGS WERE DESTROYED...AND TWO LARGE WAREHOUSES 
SUFFERED DAMAGE. A TRUCK REPAIR BUILDING WAS BADLY DAMAGED. THERE 
WAS DAMAGE TO SEVERAL AUTOS AT A USED CAR LOT AND ALSO TO A GAS 
STATION. NUMEROUS HOUSES RECEIVED ROOF DAMAGE...AND A FEW HOUSES AND 
VEHICLES WERE DAMAGED BY FALLING TREES. ROOFS WERE ALSO DAMAGED ON 
SEVERAL BUSINESSES. 

THIS WAS THE SIXTH TORNADO CONFIRMED FROM THE STORMS OF APRIL 3RD.

TODAYS SURVEY WAS PERFORMED BY JOHN ROBINSON...WARNING COORDINATION 
METEOROLOGIST...AND GARY HEIFNER...ELECTRONICS TECHNICIAN...BOTH 
FROM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN LITTLE ROCK.

ON MONDAY...A SURVEY TEAM WILL BE IN HOT SPRING COUNTY.

...GIS DATA...
GIS DATA DETAILING THE TORNADO PATH IS BEING COLLECTED. IT IS 
ANTICIPATED THAT THIS DATA WILL BE POSTED ON OUR WEB SITE BY 
MONDAY...APRIL 7TH...AFTER MOST OF THE AREAS HAVE BEEN SURVEYED. 

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