A tornado cut through the heart of Jonesboro, Ark., on Saturday evening, leaving 22 people with minor injuries and damaging a mall, local business and an airport, according to the authorities.

“It’s been a long night but we are slowly getting things put back together,” Jeff Presley, the city’s E-911 director, said on Sunday. “We have a path of damage that reaches about four miles throughout the city. We got several buildings that are beyond repair.”

Two of those injured were hospitalized overnight and there were no fatalities.

“Thank God,’’ Judge Marvin Day of Craighead County said at a news conference on Sunday. “The rescue effort is complete and we have started cleanup and recovery at this time.”

The authorities, including the National Guard and the Arkansas Forestry Commission, searched damaged buildings and visited homes on Sunday.