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Cold air, moving in from the great blizzard, underran warm air in Arkansas and Louisiana and tripped off an eccentric series of tornadoes. The most damaging hit the mill town of Warren, Ark. (pop. 10,000) just at dinner time, sounding, said one survivor, "like a brand-new diesel train going full blast across Iowa."
It tore houses apart, roared through a big lumber mill, knocked down a high smokestack, ripped bricks from a new power plant and sent chunks of concrete, heavy beams, sheets of corrugated iron and great showers of boards flying through the air for hundreds of yards.
In the darkness, rain and hail which followed, emergency floodlights were set up. As ambulance sirens wailed, the people of Warren found awful things in the rubble—402 injured men, women & children, and the bodies of 53 dead.