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Tornado Warnings in Arkansas, 1988

33 tornado warnings in 1988. 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 tornado warnings reaches back to 1986.

Tornado Warnings by county

Each county as a circle sized by its count in 1988. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
33
Busiest month
November21 tornado warnings
Busiest day
November 16, 19889 tornado warnings

Over time

By month

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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
Mar 28, 6:10 PM CSTTornado WarningLZKPulaski50 min
Mar 28, 6:43 PM CSTTornado WarningLZKFaulkner27 min
Apr 1, 5:13 PM CSTTornado WarningSHVColumbia, Lafayette62 min
May 8, 7:59 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKHot Spring46 min
May 9, 12:19 AM CDTTornado WarningMEGPhillips56 min
Jul 12, 3:51 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKArkansas, Jefferson39 min
Aug 19, 12:09 PM CDTTornado WarningMEGPoinsett36 min
Aug 27, 8:46 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKLawrence29 min
Sep 23, 2:20 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKJackson25 min
Sep 23, 2:56 PM CDTTornado WarningMEGCraighead, Poinsett34 min
Sep 23, 3:55 PM CDTTornado WarningMEGCraighead, Greene65 min
Nov 4, 2:54 PM CSTTornado WarningMEGCraighead, Greene51 min
Nov 4, 3:15 PM CSTTornado WarningMEGCraighead45 min
Nov 15, 6:44 PM CSTTornado WarningLZKPerry, Yell46 min
Nov 15, 7:05 PM CSTTornado WarningLZKConway55 min
Nov 15, 7:33 PM CSTTornado WarningLZKPope27 min
Nov 15, 7:49 PM CSTTornado WarningLZKCleburne, Faulkner, Van Buren56 min
Nov 15, 8:29 PM CSTTornado WarningLZKIndependence, Stone46 min
Nov 15, 8:46 PM CSTTornado WarningLZKGrant, Hot Spring, Saline59 min
Nov 15, 8:52 PM CSTTornado WarningLZKLawrence, Sharp53 min
Nov 15, 9:42 PM CSTTornado WarningLZKLonoke, Pulaski48 min
Nov 15, 10:17 PM CSTTornado WarningLZKPrairie43 min
Nov 19, 1:13 PM CSTTornado WarningSHVHempstead, Lafayette, Miller92 min
Nov 19, 1:13 PM CSTTornado WarningSHVNevada92 min
Nov 19, 2:00 PM CSTTornado WarningLZKClark75 min
Nov 19, 2:00 PM CSTTornado WarningSHVLafayette, Miller75 min
Nov 19, 2:46 PM CSTTornado WarningSHVHempstead, Howard59 min
Nov 19, 3:09 PM CSTTornado WarningSHVNevada66 min
Nov 19, 3:35 PM CSTTornado WarningLZKClark55 min
Nov 19, 4:28 PM CSTTornado WarningLZKArkansas62 min
Nov 19, 5:47 PM CSTTornado WarningMEGLee, Phillips43 min
Nov 25, 11:08 PM CSTTornado WarningLZKClark37 min
Dec 27, 5:23 PM CSTTornado WarningMEGCrittenden67 min

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. November 16, 19889tornado warnings
  2. November 19, 19889tornado warnings
  3. September 23, 19883tornado warnings
  4. March 29, 19882tornado warnings
  5. May 9, 19882tornado warnings
  6. November 4, 19882tornado warnings
  7. April 1, 19881tornado warnings
  8. July 12, 19881tornado warnings
  9. August 19, 19881tornado warnings
  10. August 28, 19881tornado warnings
  11. November 26, 19881tornado warnings
  12. December 27, 19881tornado warnings

Nearby

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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.