PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT   
   NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE LITTLE ROCK AR   
   110 PM CDT MON MAY 5 2014   
      
   ...MAYFLOWER/VILONIA EF4 TORNADO ON APRIL 27TH IS NOW THE DEADLIEST   
   SINGLE TORNADO IN ARKANSAS SINCE 1968...   
      
   THE PASSING OF A BABY IN FAULKNER COUNTY HAS RAISED THE DEATH TOLL   
   FROM THE MAYFLOWER/VILONIA TORNADO OF APRIL 27TH TO 16. THIS MAKES   
   IT THE DEADLIEST SINGLE TORNADO IN ARKANSAS SINCE A TORNADO ON MAY   
   15 1968...WHICH AFFECTED TUCKERMAN AND THE JONESBORO AREA...AND   
   KILLED 35.   
      
   THE BOOK SIGNIFICANT TORNADOES 1680-1991 BY THOMAS P. GRAZULIS SAYS   
   THIS ABOUT THE 1968 TORNADO...WHICH WAS RATED AS F4...   
      
   MOVED ENE THROUGH THE SOUTH PART OF TUCKERMAN. SIX HOMES WERE   
   DESTROYED AS THE TORNADO PASSED NEAR VALLEY VIEW...JONESBORO...   
   FAIRVIEW...NETTLETON...BLACK OAK...AND NEEDHAM. ABOUT 164 HOMES   
   WERE DESTROYED AT JONESBORO. THE ENTIRE NETTLETON SCHOOL WAS   
   DESTROYED. AT LEAST SEVEN CARS ON ONE STRETCH OF HIGHWAY WERE   
   HURLED ACROSS A NEARBY RAILWAY. SOME CARS WERE WRAPPED AROUND   
   TREES...KILLING THE OCCUPANTS.   
      
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