Weather alerts in Arkansas, 2023
3,895 weather alerts in 2023, 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 2023. Tap one for its archive.
- Alerts
- 3,895
- Warnings
- 1,494
- Watches
- 149
- Advisories
- 399
- Busiest month
- June856 alerts
- Busiest day
- June 14, 2023134 alerts
Over time
By month
The alerts
3,895 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 | 961 |
| Tornado Warning | 123 |
| Severe Thunderstorm Watch | 58 |
| Tornado Watch | 31 |
| Mesoscale Discussion | 232 |
| Special Weather Statement | 1,621 |
| Flooding | |
| Areal Flood Warning | 26 |
| Flash Flood Warning | 153 |
| River Flood Warning | 99 |
| Flash Flood Watch | 1 |
| Flood Watch | 34 |
| Areal Flood Advisory | 85 |
| River Flood Advisory | 40 |
| Winter | |
| Ice Storm Warning | 4 |
| Winter Storm Warning | 6 |
| Winter Storm Watch | 3 |
| Winter Weather Advisory | 15 |
| Heat | |
| Excessive Heat Warning | 88 |
| Excessive Heat Watch | 5 |
| Heat Advisory | 150 |
| Cold | |
| Freeze Warning | 29 |
| Freeze Watch | 15 |
| Frost Advisory | 10 |
| Wind and dust | |
| High Wind Warning | 2 |
| Wind Advisory | 54 |
| Fire | |
| Red Flag Warning | 3 |
| Fire Weather Watch | 2 |
| Fog and smoke | |
| Dense Fog Advisory | 41 |
| Freezing Fog Advisory | 4 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Jefferson County282
- Saline County273
- Clark County270
- Hot Spring County266
- Arkansas County264
- Garland County263
- Calhoun County260
- Grant County258
- Yell County257
- Pulaski County252
- Ouachita County249
- Pope County247
- Montgomery County247
- Desha County242
- Cleveland County241
- Dallas County240
- Drew County240
- Lonoke County239
- Johnson County238
- Bradley County237
- Little River County235
- Union County235
- Crittenden County234
- Perry County234
- Lincoln County230
- Van Buren County229
- Hempstead County225
- Miller County225
- White County221
- Polk County220
- Prairie County219
- Sevier County219
- Logan County218
- Washington County215
- Faulkner County214
- Monroe County211
- Searcy County211
- Madison County211
- Columbia County210
- Conway County208
35 more counties
- Scott County207
- Lafayette County206
- Nevada County206
- Pike County206
- Phillips County205
- Newton County203
- Ashley County203
- Benton County201
- Stone County200
- Howard County198
- Chicot County197
- Mississippi County195
- Woodruff County195
- Carroll County195
- Lee County188
- Cleburne County181
- Jackson County181
- Poinsett County180
- Cross County179
- Independence County179
- Clay County177
- Lawrence County177
- Sharp County177
- Baxter County176
- Craighead County175
- Randolph County174
- Izard County173
- Marion County172
- St. Francis County171
- Greene County161
- Boone County160
- Fulton County159
- Sebastian County159
- Crawford County158
- Franklin County153
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.