A tornado struck down in Tuckerman, Ark., on Sunday night, according to preliminary reports.
Storm chasers on Twitter said the twister hit at around 9:40 p.m. local time.
It’s unclear if there was any damage done.
About two hours prior, a tornado struck down outside of Little Rock, doing damage to buildings.
Earlier AP update for Ark. tornado:
MAYFLOWER, Ark. (AP) — A powerful storm system rumbled through the central and southern United States on Sunday, spawning a massive tornado that carved path of destruction through the northern Little Rock suburbs and another twister that killed two people in Oklahoma and injured others in Kansas.
The Arkansas tornado touched down about 10 miles west of Little Rock at around 7 p.m. and moved northeastward for at least 30 miles, the National Weather Service reported. The tornadomissed the state capital, but it passed through or near several of its northern suburbs, including the town of Mayflower, where it destroyed several homes and businesses. Authorities issuedtornado emergencies for the nearby communities of Maumelle, Morgan, Saltillo and Vilonia.
There were no immediate reports of deaths or injuries from the Arkansas tornado, but it reportedly grew to be a half-mile wide and caused extensive property damage. Television footage showed buildings that had been turned to rubble and trees that had been stripped bare of their leaves and smaller branches.
That twister was one of several that touched down Sunday as a large storm system moved through a large swath of the Plains, Midwest and South.
Less than two hours before the Arkansas tornado struck, a twister hit the small northeastern Oklahoma community of Quapaw, killing two people, Ottawa County sheriff’s dispatcher Colleen Thompson said.
Ottawa County Emergency Management director Joe Dan Morgan said Quapaw, which has about 900 residents, was heavily damaged by the tornado.
