Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2018
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Arkansas, May 2018
5 severe thunderstorm watches in May 2018. 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 2018. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 5
- Busiest day
- May 3, 20182 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 2, 11:09 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin and 12 more | 7 hr |
| May 3, 1:44 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baxter, Clark, Clay, Cleburne, Conway, Craighead and 34 more | 4 hr |
| May 19, 1:36 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clay, Greene, Mississippi, Randolph | 6 hr |
| May 20, 12:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Lawrence and 6 more | 6 hr |
| May 20, 3:32 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Benton | 4 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Clay County3
- Greene County3
- Randolph County3
- Baxter County2
- Benton County2
- Fulton County2
- Johnson County2
- Logan County2
- Marion County2
- Newton County2
- Pope County2
- Searcy County2
- Yell County2
- Craighead County2
- Cross County2
- Lawrence County2
- Poinsett County2
- Mississippi County2
- Boone County1
- Carroll County1
- Crawford County1
- Franklin County1
- Madison County1
- Scott County1
- Sebastian County1
- Washington County1
- Clark County1
- Cleburne County1
- Conway County1
- Dallas County1
- Faulkner County1
- Garland County1
- Grant County1
- Hot Spring County1
- Independence County1
- Izard County1
- Jackson County1
- Jefferson County1
- Lonoke County1
- Montgomery 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.