Alert archive / Arkansas

Weather alerts in Crawford County, Arkansas

4,050 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Crawford County and its neighbors

Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.

Alerts
4,050
Warnings
1,457
Watches
577
Advisories
387
Busiest year
2011233 alerts
Average year
99over 41 years on file

Over time

By year

Before late 2005 the archive holds only tornado, severe thunderstorm, flash flood and marine warnings, and from 1997 SPC's watches, so the jump that year is the archive widening, not the weather.

By month of the year

Warning verification

How often warnings here had a storm report inside them, and how much warning the reports had.

From 2008 to 2025, 53% of tornado reports in Crawford County fell inside a tornado warning issued on average 14 minutes before, and 70% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20086183%0
200930100%0
201060100%0
20118275%1100%7 min
20122150%10%
20136267%1100%10 min
2014110%0
201510100%0
2016110%10%
20174250%250%0 min
20184175%520%8 min
20193233%1100%2 min
202020100%0
2021220%250%31 min
20222150%0
202310100%0
20242150%0
20257186%3100%23 min
Share of tornado reports inside a tornado warning, by year.

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2008392049%2763%29 min
2009553045%2488%34 min
2010171135%367%10 min
2011582557%2969%34 min
2012252020%1872%21 min
2013271833%1267%31 min
2014251636%1191%28 min
2015241633%450%31 min
201620765%6100%29 min
2017412734%1182%20 min
2018311648%2085%24 min
2019291355%3100%21 min
2020371754%667%23 min
202112558%7100%30 min
2022381463%560%12 min
2023362142%2095%23 min
2024411856%1275%31 min
2025441468%1765%30 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2008151127%3100%105 min
20095340%450%96 min
20107271%2100%316 min
201112650%8100%107 min
20126350%2100%425 min
20132150%0
2014010%
2015231822%11100%167 min
2016110%0
20176350%250%129 min
2018110%2100%93 min
201915660%13100%144 min
20208363%1100%153 min
202110460%2100%231 min
20226433%3100%13 min
20233233%0
20247443%10%
202512650%2100%77 min

Years from 2008, the first full year of storm-based warnings. The year still running is on its own page.

Verified by the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's Cow, which matches each storm-based warning with the local storm reports inside its polygon while it was in force, within 15 km of its edge: a tornado warning counts as verified on a tornado report, a severe thunderstorm warning on hail of 1 inch or more, a gust of 58 mph or more, or wind damage, a flash flood warning on a flash flood report. The false alarm ratio is the share of warnings with no such report; "inside a warning" is the probability of detection, the share of reports that fell inside one; lead time runs from the warning's issue to each report inside it, counting zero for a report that came first. A warning with no report is not proof nothing happened: reports come from spotters, the public and damage surveys, and are thin where few people live.

By product

Every kind of product issued here, grouped by hazard. Each opens the same place narrowed to that product.

The latest warnings

The most recent on file, newest first.

IssuedProductOfficeLasted
Sep 8, 11:56 AM CDTExtreme Heat WarningTSA31 hr
Sep 7, 11:46 PM CDTExtreme Heat WarningTSA20 hr
Sep 5, 11:07 AM CDTExtreme Heat WarningTSA32 hr
Sep 5, 11:02 AM CDTExtreme Heat WarningTSA8 hr
Aug 17, 11:29 AM CDTExtreme Heat WarningTSA58 hr
Aug 17, 11:01 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSA44 min
Aug 17, 10:32 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm Warning Considerable damage threatTSA43 min
Aug 17, 9:54 AM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningTSA51 min
Aug 15, 11:26 AM CDTExtreme Heat WarningTSA33 hr
Aug 15, 11:26 AM CDTExtreme Heat WarningTSA9 hr
Jul 30, 1:18 PM CDTExtreme Heat WarningTSA32 hr
Jul 27, 11:09 AM CDTExtreme Heat WarningTSA33 hr

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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.