2023 Wynne–Parkin tornado

Afterward, the tornado primarily traversed through open land, snapping or uprooting trees and power poles and overturning irrigation systems, with strength ranging from EF1 to EF2.After crossing the river, it gradually weakened before dissipating a few miles northwest of Brighton at 5:54 p.m. An extratropical cyclone developed over Nebraska on the morning of March 31.This, along with even stronger CAPE values and a more unstable environment across Illinois and eastern Missouri, led to the SPC "bridging" the two main moderate-risk areas and giving a 15% hatched risk for significant tornadoes at their 1300 UTC outlook.The surrounding area, which extended into central portions of Kentucky and Tennessee, extreme southwestern Indiana, and northwestern Alabama, was given a 10% hatched risk for tornadoes.[2] With increased confidence in favorable parameters for severe weather, the SPC upped the threat for strong tornadoes even further, introducing two tornado-driven high risk areas in their 16:30 UTC outlook; it was the first high-risk issuance since March 25, 2021.In 2024, SPC forecaster and meteorologist Andrew Lyons stated, "We've been building up to this crescendo all week, knowing that pretty much all the parameters are there for something big and then one by one, each piece kind of fell in that morning."[3] The first high risk area covered southeastern Iowa, northwestern Illinois, and far northeastern Missouri, while the second included eastern Arkansas, southwestern Tennessee, and northern Mississippi.Supercells would be more scattered but longer tracked within the southern high-risk area, with multiple rounds of tornadic storms capable of producing long-lived strong to violent tornadoes expected.It snapped multiple power poles and uprooted trees near the Ellis Chapel United Methodist Church; a double-wide mobile home was rolled over, an outbuilding was destroyed, and a metal building was leveled.[8] Maintaining EF2 intensity, the tornado entered Wynne, first crossing 11th St W. A mobile home on Merriman Ave was destroyed, with all debris blown away, and trees in the immediate vicinity were knocked over.Northeast of Parkin, the tornado strengthened again, snapping two power poles on AR 184 and overturning 20-30 center pivot irrigation systems at 125 mph (201 km/h).North of Earle, the tornado weakened back to EF1 intensity, snapping multiple trees and wooden power poles, and blowing over pivot irrigation systems.Around the same time, at 5:23 p.m. CDT, the National Weather Service issued another tornado emergency for Crittenden, Mississippi, Shelby, and Tipton counties in Arkansas and Tennessee.