Alert archive / Arkansas

Weather alerts in Garland County, Arkansas

4,497 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Garland County and its neighbors

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

Alerts
4,497
Warnings
1,606
Watches
721
Advisories
898
Busiest year
2011349 alerts
Average year
110over 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, 43% of tornado reports in Garland County fell inside a tornado warning issued on average 21 minutes before, and 91% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20088188%1100%33 min
200950100%0
2010120100%0
201121290%10%
20137357%3100%15 min
20163167%0
201750100%0
201820100%0
202130100%0
202260100%10%
202370100%30%
20247186%540%24 min
202510190%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
2008451469%1182%23 min
2009522062%1127%17 min
2010421760%1765%16 min
2011873757%4871%22 min
2012361947%1283%22 min
2013582459%786%18 min
2014442055%1362%25 min
2015322038%1479%32 min
2016281161%863%32 min
2017261735%1191%30 min
2018352334%9100%18 min
2019241346%475%19 min
2020361656%683%24 min
202120955%580%22 min
2022341847%1060%21 min
2023562850%3093%19 min
2024322134%1681%21 min
2025411466%757%22 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
2008251252%560%135 min
2009221627%1070%45 min
20109456%1100%28 min
2011291066%367%107 min
20124250%0
2013201240%580%127 min
20147357%0
20159633%10%
20167271%0
201710640%2100%13 min
2018141029%3100%24 min
20197271%1100%1 min
202016663%667%82 min
20217443%1100%149 min
20226350%2100%158 min
202314564%560%109 min
20244175%0
202517947%6100%87 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 22, 3:52 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZK18 min
Aug 26, 3:30 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZK12 min
Aug 22, 7:04 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZK14 min
Aug 22, 6:22 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZK38 min
Aug 22, 5:17 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZK28 min
Aug 20, 8:54 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZK36 min
Aug 20, 8:27 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZK33 min
Aug 20, 7:56 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZK31 min
Aug 20, 7:46 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningLZK44 min
Aug 18, 11:46 AM CDTExtreme Heat WarningLZK31 hr
Jul 19, 11:50 AM CDTExtreme Heat WarningLZK57 hr
Jul 12, 3:51 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningLZK93 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.