Alert archive / Arkansas / 1988
Weather alerts in Arkansas, May 1988
42 weather alerts in May 1988, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state.
Weather alerts by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in May 1988. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 42
- Warnings
- 42
- Watches
- 0
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- May 9, 198812 alerts
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
The alerts
Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Central Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 3, 2:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Cleburne | 27 min |
| May 3, 2:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Independence | 45 min |
| May 8, 12:35 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Columbia | 55 min |
| May 8, 3:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Phillips | 37 min |
| May 8, 3:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Washington | 43 min |
| May 8, 5:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Newton | 36 min |
| May 8, 5:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Marion, Searcy | 53 min |
| May 8, 6:07 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Baxter | 53 min |
| May 8, 6:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Fulton, Izard | 51 min |
| May 8, 6:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Van Buren | 37 min |
| May 8, 7:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Clark | 27 min |
| May 8, 7:59 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Hot Spring | 46 min |
| May 8, 8:03 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Randolph | 42 min |
| May 8, 8:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Sharp | 42 min |
| May 8, 8:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Grant | 62 min |
| May 8, 8:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Lawrence | 58 min |
| May 8, 8:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Clay | 37 min |
| May 8, 9:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Hot Spring | 33 min |
| May 8, 10:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Jefferson, Lonoke | 41 min |
| May 8, 10:53 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas | 37 min |
| May 8, 11:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lee, Phillips | 57 min |
| May 9, 12:19 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Phillips | 56 min |
| May 9, 9:40 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Union | 65 min |
| May 9, 10:42 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Ashley | 63 min |
| May 9, 11:52 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Drew | 53 min |
| May 10, 12:08 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Chicot | 52 min |
| May 12, 3:47 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway, Faulkner | 28 min |
| May 12, 4:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Faulkner | 45 min |
| May 12, 4:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Yell | 64 min |
| May 12, 5:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Prairie, Woodruff | 50 min |
| May 12, 8:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Calhoun, Ouachita | 47 min |
| May 12, 8:33 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Union | 27 min |
| May 13, 4:13 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Van Buren | 47 min |
| May 13, 6:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Poinsett | 48 min |
| May 13, 6:54 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Crittenden, Cross | 66 min |
| May 21, 11:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Pike | 75 min |
| May 22, 5:43 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Desha, Lincoln | 47 min |
| May 22, 3:28 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas | 47 min |
| May 22, 3:39 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Cross | 51 min |
| May 22, 3:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Poinsett | 50 min |
| May 22, 4:05 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Craighead | 55 min |
| May 22, 5:37 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Mississippi | 53 min |
By product
Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.
| Product | Alerts |
|---|---|
| Severe storms | |
| Severe Thunderstorm Warning | 40 |
| Tornado Warning | 2 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Phillips County3
- Arkansas County3
- Van Buren County2
- Hot Spring County2
- Union County2
- Faulkner County2
- Poinsett County2
- Cross County2
- Cleburne County1
- Independence County1
- Columbia County1
- Washington County1
- Newton County1
- Marion County1
- Searcy County1
- Baxter County1
- Fulton County1
- Izard County1
- Clark County1
- Randolph County1
- Sharp County1
- Grant County1
- Lawrence County1
- Clay County1
- Jefferson County1
- Lonoke County1
- Lee County1
- Ashley County1
- Drew County1
- Chicot County1
- Conway County1
- Yell County1
- Prairie County1
- Woodruff County1
- Calhoun County1
- Ouachita County1
- Crittenden County1
- Pike County1
- Desha County1
- Lincoln County1
2 more counties
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Sources
National Weather Service watches, warnings, advisories and statements from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's VTEC archive, which reconstructs tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings back to 1986 from the NWS text archive. Storm Prediction Center watches and mesoscale discussions from SPC's archive through the Mesonet. County centers from the US Census Bureau. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.