Alert archive / Arkansas / Severe Thunderstorm Watches / 2021
Severe Thunderstorm Watches in Arkansas, May 2021
8 severe thunderstorm watches in May 2021. 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 2021. Tap one for its archive.
- Severe Thunderstorm Watches
- 8
- Busiest day
- May 4, 20213 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, 9:10 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Baxter, Benton, Boone, Calhoun, Carroll, Clark and 50 more | 7 hr |
| May 4, 1:41 AM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Mississippi and 2 more | 6 hr |
| May 4, 12:18 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Phillips | 5 hr |
| May 6, 12:38 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Jackson and 4 more | 5 hr |
| May 9, 1:14 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Clark and 33 more | 8 hr |
| May 9, 2:27 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Lee, Mississippi, Phillips and 2 more | 7 hr |
| May 18, 3:51 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Clark, Garland, Hempstead, Hot Spring, Howard, Lafayette and 11 more | 5 hr |
| May 27, 5:12 PM CDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Clark and 41 more | 8 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Clark County4
- Garland County4
- Hot Spring County4
- Montgomery County4
- Pike County4
- Cleburne County3
- Conway County3
- Dallas County3
- Faulkner County3
- Grant County3
- Hempstead County3
- Howard County3
- Jackson County3
- Jefferson County3
- Lafayette County3
- Lawrence County3
- Little River County3
- Logan County3
- Lonoke County3
- Miller County3
- Nevada County3
- Perry County3
- Polk County3
- Prairie County3
- Pulaski County3
- Randolph County3
- Saline County3
- Scott County3
- Sebastian County3
- Sevier County3
- Van Buren County3
- White County3
- Woodruff County3
- Yell County3
- Craighead County3
- Crittenden County3
- Cross County3
- Mississippi County3
- Poinsett County3
- Baxter County2
35 more counties
- Benton County2
- Boone County2
- Calhoun County2
- Carroll County2
- Cleveland County2
- Columbia County2
- Crawford County2
- Franklin County2
- Fulton County2
- Independence County2
- Izard County2
- Johnson County2
- Madison County2
- Marion County2
- Newton County2
- Ouachita County2
- Pope County2
- Searcy County2
- Sharp County2
- Stone County2
- Washington County2
- Clay County2
- Greene County2
- St. Francis County2
- Phillips County2
- Arkansas County2
- Monroe County2
- Ashley County1
- Bradley County1
- Chicot County1
- Desha County1
- Drew County1
- Lincoln County1
- Union County1
- Lee 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.