Alert archive / Arkansas / 1997
Weather alerts in Arkansas, February 1997
52 weather alerts in February 1997, 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 February 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 52
- Warnings
- 46
- Watches
- 6
- Advisories
- 0
- Busiest day
- February 21, 199729 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Feb 3, 9:45 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Jefferson | 3 hr |
| Feb 3, 9:45 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Grant | 3 hr |
| Feb 20, 6:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ashley, Baxter, Benton, Boone, Bradley, Calhoun and 48 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 20, 7:07 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | SHV | Howard, Little River, Sevier | 4 hr |
| Feb 20, 7:32 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Sebastian | 43 min |
| Feb 20, 7:33 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Miller | 42 min |
| Feb 20, 7:46 PM CST | Flash Flood Warning | LZK | Polk | 3 hr |
| Feb 20, 8:08 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Crawford | 52 min |
| Feb 20, 8:16 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Washington | 44 min |
| Feb 20, 8:31 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Logan | 64 min |
| Feb 20, 8:34 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Franklin | 66 min |
| Feb 20, 8:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Columbia | 61 min |
| Feb 20, 8:47 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Benton | 43 min |
| Feb 20, 8:48 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Johnson | 52 min |
| Feb 20, 8:51 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Yell | 49 min |
| Feb 20, 8:54 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Madison, Washington | 51 min |
| Feb 20, 9:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Garland, Hot Spring | 47 min |
| Feb 20, 9:21 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | TSA | Carroll | 54 min |
| Feb 20, 9:36 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Dallas | 64 min |
| Feb 20, 9:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Columbia, Union | 45 min |
| Feb 20, 10:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Conway | 35 min |
| Feb 20, 10:03 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Faulkner | 62 min |
| Feb 20, 10:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Pulaski | 61 min |
| Feb 20, 10:12 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | SHV | Union | 63 min |
| Feb 20, 10:45 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Cleburne | 65 min |
| Feb 20, 11:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Chicot, Clay, Cleburne and 26 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 20, 11:09 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Ashley | 51 min |
| Feb 20, 11:45 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ashley | 5 hr |
| Feb 20, 11:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lawrence, Randolph | 45 min |
| Feb 21, 12:33 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lee | 47 min |
| Feb 21, 1:06 AM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Poinsett | 29 min |
| Feb 26, 2:44 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Searcy, Van Buren | 46 min |
| Feb 26, 2:45 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Baxter, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot and 43 more | 5 hr |
| Feb 26, 5:53 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Lawrence | 47 min |
| Feb 26, 5:55 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Jackson | 45 min |
| Feb 26, 6:26 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Lincoln | 49 min |
| Feb 26, 6:49 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | JAN | Ashley | 41 min |
| Feb 26, 6:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Desha | 50 min |
| Feb 26, 8:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Chicot, Crittenden, Mississippi, Phillips | 6 hr |
| Feb 28, 12:42 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | White | 33 min |
| Feb 28, 12:56 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Woodruff | 49 min |
| Feb 28, 1:00 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Independence, Jackson | 50 min |
| Feb 28, 1:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Cleburne | 32 min |
| Feb 28, 1:23 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Poinsett | 47 min |
| Feb 28, 1:29 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Pope | 31 min |
| Feb 28, 1:39 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Craighead | 46 min |
| Feb 28, 1:50 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Independence | 35 min |
| Feb 28, 1:59 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | LZK | Sharp | 61 min |
| Feb 28, 2:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Greene | 49 min |
| Feb 28, 2:58 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Clay, Randolph | 32 min |
| Feb 28, 5:06 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | MEG | Crittenden, St. Francis | 49 min |
| Feb 28, 5:15 PM CST | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Crittenden, Mississippi | 6 hr |
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 | 42 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 1 |
| Tornado Watch | 5 |
| Flooding | |
| Flash Flood Warning | 4 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Ashley County6
- Cleburne County5
- Crittenden County5
- Arkansas County4
- Jefferson County4
- Columbia County4
- Lincoln County4
- Union County4
- White County4
- Independence County4
- Jackson County4
- Lawrence County4
- Mississippi County4
- Poinsett County4
- Randolph County4
- Grant County3
- Bradley County3
- Conway County3
- Dallas County3
- Drew County3
- Faulkner County3
- Fulton County3
- Hot Spring County3
- Izard County3
- Lonoke County3
- Pulaski County3
- Stone County3
- Van Buren County3
- Washington County3
- Chicot County3
- Clay County3
- Craighead County3
- Desha County3
- Greene County3
- Lee County3
- Phillips County3
- St. Francis County3
- Sharp County3
- Woodruff County3
- Baxter County2
35 more counties
- Benton County2
- Calhoun County2
- Carroll County2
- Clark County2
- Cleveland County2
- Crawford County2
- Franklin County2
- Garland County2
- Howard County2
- Johnson County2
- Little River County2
- Logan County2
- Madison County2
- Miller County2
- Nevada County2
- Ouachita County2
- Perry County2
- Polk County2
- Pope County2
- Saline County2
- Searcy County2
- Sebastian County2
- Sevier County2
- Yell County2
- Cross County2
- Monroe County2
- Prairie County2
- Boone County1
- Hempstead County1
- Lafayette County1
- Marion County1
- Montgomery County1
- Newton County1
- Pike County1
- Scott County1
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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. Rebuilt daily.