Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2017
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Arkansas, May 2017
8 severe thunderstorm watches in May 2017. 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 2017. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 8
- Busiest day
- May 11, 20173 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 3, 12:34 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Columbia, Hempstead, Lafayette, Miller, Nevada | 5 hr |
| May 11, 12:56 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Sebastian and 1 more | 8 hr |
| May 11, 2:43 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Columbia, Hempstead, Howard, Lafayette, Little River, Miller and 3 more | 9 hr |
| May 11, 3:17 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Baxter, Boone, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark and 45 more | 7 hr |
| May 27, 12:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Fulton, Izard and 7 more | 5 hr |
| May 27, 4:19 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Lawrence and 3 more | 6 hr |
| May 28, 12:06 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Columbia, Crawford, Franklin, Hempstead and 10 more | 5 hr |
| May 28, 12:18 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleburne, Cleveland and 36 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Columbia County3
- Hempstead County3
- Lafayette County3
- Miller County3
- Nevada County3
- Benton County3
- Carroll County3
- Madison County3
- Washington County3
- Newton County3
- Searcy County3
- Stone County3
- Crawford County2
- Franklin County2
- Sebastian County2
- Howard County2
- Little River County2
- Sevier County2
- Union County2
- Arkansas County2
- Baxter County2
- Boone County2
- Bradley County2
- Calhoun County2
- Clark County2
- Clay County2
- Cleburne County2
- Cleveland County2
- Conway County2
- Craighead County2
- Dallas County2
- Desha County2
- Drew County2
- Faulkner County2
- Fulton County2
- Garland County2
- Grant County2
- Greene County2
- Hot Spring County2
- Independence County2
33 more counties
- Izard County2
- Jackson County2
- Jefferson County2
- Johnson County2
- Lawrence County2
- Lincoln County2
- Logan County2
- Lonoke County2
- Marion County2
- Monroe County2
- Montgomery County2
- Ouachita County2
- Perry County2
- Pike County2
- Poinsett County2
- Polk County2
- Pope County2
- Prairie County2
- Pulaski County2
- Randolph County2
- Saline County2
- Scott County2
- Sharp County2
- Van Buren County2
- White County2
- Woodruff County2
- Yell County2
- Crittenden County1
- Cross County1
- Mississippi County1
- Lee County1
- Phillips County1
- St. Francis 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.