Small tornado damages daycare and uproots trees, Wrightsville AR
Other Non-Crime EventA small tornado in the spring damaged a daycare center near Block Road, uprooted many trees, and removed the roof about 400 yards west of the speaker's location. The tornado was small and caused no damage to the speaker's property.
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Transcript:
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Barely met that mini tornado we had back in the spring.
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Took out the daycare center over here near Block Road.
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But I could have thrown a rock and hit that.
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It just crossed the lake.
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It took a lot of trees down and didn't do any damage on my property.
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Yeah,
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they got some trees just to...
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I mean,
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maybe 200 yards down the road from me.
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And then my trees were almost touching the ground, it looked like.
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But that was just high winds, I think.
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But I couldn't see it, and it was all over with the time I figured out what was going on.
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But took the roof off the daycare center right there, you know, it's what,
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400 yards to the west of me.
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But it veered just a bit to the north of maybe 100 yards, so it was a very small one.
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It was down our dam on the north side.
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A lot of fine trees down.
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Location mentioned:
Center St, Wrightsville, AR 72206
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