POCAHONTAS, Ark. – While surveying damage from storms that ripped through the state last week, it was discovered that an EF-2 tornado touched down in Pocahontas.

According to data from the National Weather Service’s Little Rock office, the tornado happened during a severe weather event on Wednesday night.

Tornadoes, winds, flooding and hail: Arkansas wakes up to disastrous severe storm damage

NWS officials said that the storm had winds of 125 mph and the damage was discovered along Trinity Road southeast of the center of Pocahontas.

Preliminary reports showed that large sections of a roof were removed from a home in the area.

Flooding, power outages and damage left as severe weather sweeps through Arkansas

Arkansas Storm Team Meteorologist Christopher Pipkin confirmed in a geospatial analysis of tornado warnings in Arkansas for April 2, 2025, that the total area covered by warnings were 13,706.91 square miles, or roughly just over one-quarter of the state.

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