Weather alerts in Arkansas, 2017
2,650 weather alerts in 2017, 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 2017. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 2,650
- Warnings
- 1,057
- Watches
- 111
- Advisories
- 321
- Busiest month
- April590 alerts
- Busiest day
- April 30, 2017126 alerts
Over time
By month
The alerts
2,650 alerts are too many to list on one page. Narrow it to a product above, to a month in the chart, or to a county.
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 | 629 |
| Tornado Warning | 94 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 40 |
| Tornado Watch | 25 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 154 |
| Special Weather Statement | 1,007 |
| Flooding | |
| Areal Flood Warning | 34 |
| Flash Flood Warning | 165 |
| River Flood Warning | 101 |
| Flash Flood Watch | 35 |
| Flood Watch | 2 |
| Areal Flood Advisory | 52 |
| River Flood Advisory | 40 |
| Winter | |
| Freezing Rain Advisory | 1 |
| Winter Weather Advisory | 14 |
| Heat | |
| Excessive Heat Warning | 5 |
| Heat Advisory | 33 |
| Cold | |
| Freeze Warning | 19 |
| Hard Freeze Warning | 3 |
| Freeze Watch | 7 |
| Frost Advisory | 5 |
| Wind Chill Advisory | 4 |
| Wind and dust | |
| Blowing Dust Advisory | 3 |
| Lake Wind Advisory | 64 |
| Wind Advisory | 39 |
| Fire | |
| Red Flag Warning | 7 |
| Fire Weather Watch | 2 |
| Fog and smoke | |
| Dense Fog Advisory | 66 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Washington County220
- White County202
- Benton County198
- Mississippi County197
- Madison County188
- Crawford County185
- Craighead County183
- Lonoke County178
- Faulkner County177
- Greene County176
- Lawrence County176
- Carroll County174
- Clay County173
- Woodruff County171
- Sevier County171
- Marion County170
- Prairie County169
- Poinsett County167
- Pulaski County166
- Crittenden County166
- Randolph County166
- Jackson County166
- Little River County163
- Baxter County163
- Perry County159
- Saline County158
- Cross County157
- Conway County157
- Independence County156
- St. Francis County155
- Garland County153
- Howard County152
- Franklin County149
- Miller County148
- Sharp County148
- Izard County146
- Stone County144
- Fulton County143
- Sebastian County142
- Jefferson County141
35 more counties
- Cleburne County138
- Hempstead County137
- Arkansas County135
- Monroe County135
- Desha County134
- Yell County134
- Grant County133
- Lee County132
- Lafayette County132
- Hot Spring County131
- Columbia County130
- Boone County128
- Searcy County127
- Johnson County125
- Logan County123
- Newton County123
- Drew County121
- Union County121
- Lincoln County119
- Chicot County119
- Pope County119
- Cleveland County118
- Bradley County116
- Calhoun County116
- Phillips County116
- Ashley County114
- Nevada County114
- Clark County111
- Pike County111
- Ouachita County110
- Van Buren County109
- Dallas County106
- Montgomery County105
- Scott County102
- Polk County86
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
Nearby
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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.