Everyone is accounted for after a possible tornado caused damage in Caraway last night. Craighead County Sheriff Marty Boyd tells KAIT television several homes, businesses and the First Baptist Church in Caraway were damaged. Some farm shops and grain bins also were hit hard, and there were numerous trees and power lines down. Boyd says an immediate curfew was imposed overnight and a command post was established at the Caraway City Hall. After going door to door, Boyd reported there were no injuries and no one killed. An emergency shelter has been established at a local church and the Riverside Public Schools are not in session today. Storm damage was also reported in Monette from damaging winds, as well as Ripley County in the Bootheel of Missouri. There are reports of downed trees and power lines near Naylor, Missouri. No reports of deaths or injuries across the region after last night’s severe storms.
Johnathan Reaves is the News Director for KASU Public Radio. As part of an Air Force Family, he moved to Arkansas from Minot, North Dakota in 1986. He was first bitten by the radio bug after he graduated from Gosnell High School in 1992. While working on his undergraduate degree, he worked at KOSE, a small 1,000 watt AM commercial station in Osceola, Arkansas. Upon graduation from Arkansas State University in 1996 with a degree in Radio-Television Broadcast News, he decided that he wanted to stay in radio news. He moved to Stuttgart, Arkansas and worked for East Arkansas Broadcasters as news director and was there for 16 years.