Excessive Heat Watches in Arkansas
44 excessive heat watches since 1986. An alert counts here when it covered any part of the state, so the counties below add up to more than the state. The archive of excessive heat watches reaches back to 2005.
Excessive Heat Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count since 1986. Tap one for its archive.
- Excessive Heat Watches
- 44
- Busiest year
- 201012 excessive heat watches
- Average year
- 4over 11 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
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Lee County22
- Phillips County22
- St. Francis County22
- Crittenden County21
- Cross County21
- Craighead County20
- Mississippi County20
- Poinsett County20
- Clay County18
- Greene County18
- Lawrence County15
- Randolph County15
- Jackson County4
- Woodruff County4
- Arkansas County4
- Jefferson County4
- Lonoke County4
- Monroe County4
- Prairie County4
- Pulaski County4
- Desha County4
- Drew County4
- Lincoln County4
- Faulkner County3
- Independence County3
- Sharp County3
- White County3
- Bradley County3
- Cleveland County3
- Ashley County2
- Chicot County2
- Conway County2
- Garland County2
- Grant County2
- Hot Spring County2
- Perry County2
- Saline County2
- Calhoun County2
- Clark County2
- Dallas County2
Nearby
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.