High winds damaged homes and nearly destroyed a regional airport in east Arkansas early Sunday, officials said.
According to a preliminary survey by the National Weather Service in Memphis, straight-line thunderstorm winds reached up to 100 mph in St. Francis County, the speed of an EF-1 tornado.
The storm, which the agency said hit between 11 p.m. Saturday and 1 a.m. Sunday, devastated the Delta Regional Airport's business building and its 12 hangars, damaging about 10 private airplanes beyond repair, airport board member John Kerr said. A terminal building under construction was not hit, he said.
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