On This Day In Arkansas Weather History... The start of a week long tornado outbreak began with Arkansas getting hit by several tornadoes on April 25th, with additional tornadoes occurring the next day. On the 25th, major damage was seen at Vilonia, where a long track EF2 was seen (sadly, another stronger EF4 tornado would just occur 3 yrs later nearly to the day), with an EF2 tornado hitting the Little Rock AFB, and the strongest EF3 near Fountain Lake.