Alert archive / Arkansas

Weather alerts in Crittenden County, Arkansas

4,315 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Crittenden County and its neighbors

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

Alerts
4,315
Warnings
1,409
Watches
677
Advisories
1,091
Busiest year
2011322 alerts
Average year
105over 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, 80% of tornado reports in Crittenden County fell inside a tornado warning issued on average 18 minutes before, and 76% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200810550%5100%24 min
200930100%0
20105180%0
201115287%367%4 min
20123233%2100%9 min
20133167%250%17 min
201440100%0
20163167%0
201720100%0
201910100%0
202030100%0
20218275%10%
202220100%0
20236433%2100%25 min
202410100%0
202514286%0
Share of tornado reports inside a tornado warning, by year.

Severe thunderstorm warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2008401855%10100%19 min
2009411856%3100%26 min
201031971%743%19 min
2011875043%2463%13764 min
2012351169%1100%36 min
2013331070%1070%12 min
2014432151%7100%23 min
2015221055%1100%46 min
201616569%1100%37 min
2017291452%3100%15 min
201821862%2100%30 min
2019231248%3100%10 min
2020261735%978%34 min
202121957%1100%8 min
2022201430%250%2 min
2023443325%863%23 min
2024241154%450%32 min
2025563046%9100%24 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
200810640%2100%48 min
2009281739%2100%66 min
2010321166%0
201129969%2100%151 min
20125420%1100%22 min
201310370%0
201410460%1100%85 min
201510280%0
201619668%1100%55 min
201712375%0
201850100%0
201910100%0
202010100%0
20216517%0
2022110%0
2023440%2100%175 min
20243167%0
2025211338%4100%118 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
Aug 22, 4:28 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEG47 min
Aug 22, 3:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEG51 min
Aug 18, 11:41 AM CDTExtreme Heat WarningMEG32 hr
Aug 17, 4:32 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEG58 min
Aug 17, 3:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEG62 min
Aug 17, 3:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEG58 min
Aug 16, 7:58 PM CDTExtreme Heat WarningMEG24 hr
Aug 12, 4:06 AM CDTExtreme Heat WarningMEG5 days
Jul 25, 11:17 AM CDTExtreme Heat WarningMEG3 days
Jul 19, 11:47 AM CDTExtreme Heat WarningMEG57 hr
Jul 11, 5:33 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEG57 min
Jul 11, 4:00 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningMEG45 min

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.