Alert archive / Arkansas

Weather alerts in Little River County, Arkansas

3,960 weather alerts since 1986, from the National Weather Service and the Storm Prediction Center. An alert counts here when it covered this county.

Little River County and its neighbors

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

Alerts
3,960
Warnings
1,210
Watches
664
Advisories
926
Busiest year
2008237 alerts
Average year
97over 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, 76% of tornado reports in Little River County fell inside a tornado warning issued on average 9 minutes before, and 73% of the tornado warnings had no report inside them.

Tornado warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20088275%1100%18 min
20096350%3100%2 min
20108188%0
20116183%250%10 min
201310100%0
201450100%20%
201590100%10%
20164175%0
20186350%2100%5 min
20193167%0
20206517%5100%13 min
20212150%1100%7 min
20224250%0
202340100%0
2024110%0
202540100%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
2008301163%333%1 min
2009321456%4100%26 min
2010231152%667%20 min
2011453033%2090%28 min
2012241729%13100%28 min
2013241825%3100%6 min
2014251540%667%29 min
2015251444%450%19 min
2016281546%540%6 min
201715660%0
201814750%2100%32 min
2019231343%875%37 min
2020211529%978%18 min
2021231917%1191%24 min
2022231726%1100%12 min
2023433030%786%21 min
2024282221%667%14 min
2025371559%667%22 min

Flash flood warnings by year

WarningsWith a reportFalse alarm ratioReportsInside a warningMean lead time
20087443%1100%21 min
200922209%989%234 min
2011550%0
20133167%0
20142150%2100%98 min
2015151220%3100%207 min
2016550%1100%126 min
20174325%580%101 min
2018550%1100%168 min
20194325%0
20206517%3100%77 min
20214250%0
2022220%0
20237443%1100%66 min
20243233%0
20256350%0

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 21, 5:44 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHV38 min
Aug 26, 8:02 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHV58 min
Aug 26, 7:01 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHV44 min
Aug 20, 6:45 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHV45 min
Aug 20, 12:25 AM CDTExtreme Heat WarningSHV20 hr
Jul 20, 10:20 PM CDTExtreme Heat WarningSHV26 hr
Jul 12, 4:00 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningSHV2 hr
Jun 24, 12:02 PM CDTFlash Flood WarningSHV3 hr
Jun 24, 5:32 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningSHV8 hr
Jun 23, 7:22 PM CDTFlash Flood Warning Considerable damage threatSHV2 hr
Jun 23, 6:58 PM CDTSevere Thunderstorm WarningSHV47 min
Jun 23, 8:01 AM CDTFlash Flood WarningSHV3 hr

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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.