Weather alerts in Arkansas, 2020
2,835 weather alerts in 2020, 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 2020. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 2,835
- Warnings
- 1,151
- Watches
- 111
- Advisories
- 360
- Busiest month
- May548 alerts
- Busiest day
- January 11, 2020114 alerts
Over time
By month
The alerts
2,835 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 | 658 |
| Tornado Warning | 115 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 27 |
| Tornado Watch | 24 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 141 |
| Special Weather Statement | 1,072 |
| Flooding | |
| Areal Flood Warning | 17 |
| Flash Flood Warning | 150 |
| River Flood Warning | 170 |
| Flash Flood Watch | 46 |
| Flood Watch | 6 |
| River Flood Watch | 1 |
| Areal Flood Advisory | 83 |
| River Flood Advisory | 74 |
| Winter | |
| Winter Storm Warning | 3 |
| Winter Storm Watch | 3 |
| Winter Weather Advisory | 16 |
| Heat | |
| Excessive Heat Warning | 8 |
| Heat Advisory | 48 |
| Cold | |
| Freeze Warning | 20 |
| Freeze Watch | 2 |
| Frost Advisory | 19 |
| Wind and dust | |
| High Wind Warning | 1 |
| Lake Wind Advisory | 21 |
| Wind Advisory | 34 |
| Fire | |
| Red Flag Warning | 5 |
| Fire Weather Watch | 1 |
| Fog and smoke | |
| Dense Fog Advisory | 65 |
| Tropical | |
| Tropical Storm Warning | 4 |
| Tropical Storm Watch | 1 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Pulaski County179
- Scott County171
- Perry County168
- Yell County168
- Lonoke County167
- Hot Spring County166
- Saline County166
- Washington County164
- Benton County161
- Mississippi County160
- Sebastian County159
- Sevier County158
- Garland County158
- Faulkner County157
- White County156
- Clark County155
- Logan County154
- Conway County152
- Howard County151
- Madison County151
- Prairie County151
- Miller County149
- Little River County148
- Independence County148
- Jackson County147
- Carroll County145
- Polk County143
- Pike County142
- Hempstead County141
- Arkansas County141
- Crawford County141
- Montgomery County140
- Crittenden County138
- Jefferson County138
- Lee County135
- Sharp County132
- Craighead County132
- Lawrence County131
- Franklin County131
- Union County130
35 more counties
- Woodruff County129
- Izard County127
- Columbia County127
- Clay County126
- Lafayette County126
- Grant County125
- Desha County124
- Cleburne County124
- Greene County124
- Poinsett County124
- Randolph County123
- Pope County123
- Calhoun County122
- Chicot County121
- Dallas County121
- Baxter County120
- Stone County119
- Nevada County118
- Monroe County118
- Ouachita County115
- Marion County114
- Fulton County111
- Johnson County111
- Phillips County110
- Lincoln County109
- St. Francis County109
- Drew County107
- Cleveland County106
- Bradley County102
- Ashley County102
- Cross County102
- Van Buren County98
- Searcy County87
- Newton County80
- Boone County72
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.