Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2003
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Arkansas, May 2003
14 severe thunderstorm watches in May 2003. 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 severe thunderstorm watches reaches back to 1997.
Severe Thunderstorm Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in May 2003. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 14
- Busiest day
- May 2, 20032 severe thunderstorm watches
Over time
By day
Days in UTC, the clock the archive keeps.
The alerts
Every alert, in the order issued. Times are local, Central Time. Each opens its own page with the text, the map, the radar and the sounding.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 9:35 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clay, Craighead, Greene | 5 hr |
| May 1, 9:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clark, Columbia, Garland, Hempstead, Hot Spring, Howard and 10 more | 4 hr |
| May 2, 2:55 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Cleveland and 13 more | 6 hr |
| May 2, 9:50 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleveland, Columbia, Dallas and 15 more | 5 hr |
| May 6, 7:15 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Ashley, Chicot | 5 hr |
| May 8, 1:55 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll | 5 hr |
| May 10, 7:00 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Clark, Cleveland, Dallas, Garland, Grant and 18 more | 5 hr |
| May 13, 2:20 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Crawford, Franklin, Logan, Madison, Montgomery, Scott and 2 more | 6 hr |
| May 13, 5:45 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Clark and 22 more | 4 hr |
| May 14, 11:10 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Phillips | 6 hr |
| May 14, 6:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Ashley, Columbia, Lafayette, Nevada, Union | 6 hr |
| May 16, 4:25 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Howard, Johnson and 10 more | 5 hr |
| May 16, 6:50 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Baxter, Boone, Cleburne, Cleveland, Conway and 27 more | 4 hr |
| May 24, 9:30 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Polk | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Montgomery County6
- Nevada County6
- Columbia County5
- Garland County5
- Hempstead County5
- Hot Spring County5
- Howard County5
- Lafayette County5
- Pike County5
- Polk County5
- Sevier County5
- Cleveland County5
- Dallas County5
- Clark County4
- Little River County4
- Miller County4
- Arkansas County4
- Ashley County4
- Jefferson County4
- Lincoln County4
- Union County4
- Grant County4
- Saline County3
- Scott County3
- Bradley County3
- Calhoun County3
- Chicot County3
- Ouachita County3
- Desha County2
- Drew County2
- Phillips County2
- Benton County2
- Carroll County2
- Lonoke County2
- Monroe County2
- Perry County2
- Prairie County2
- Pulaski County2
- Crawford County2
- Franklin County2
30 more counties
- Logan County2
- Madison County2
- Sebastian County2
- Washington County2
- Clay County1
- Craighead County1
- Greene County1
- Lee County1
- St. Francis County1
- Johnson County1
- Yell County1
- Baxter County1
- Boone County1
- Cleburne County1
- Conway County1
- Faulkner County1
- Fulton County1
- Independence County1
- Izard County1
- Jackson County1
- Lawrence County1
- Marion County1
- Newton County1
- Pope County1
- Searcy County1
- Sharp County1
- Stone County1
- Van Buren County1
- White County1
- Woodruff County1
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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.