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Tornado Warnings in Arkansas, 1989

39 tornado warnings in 1989. 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 1989. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
39
Busiest month
April17 tornado warnings
Busiest day
April 4, 198915 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, 6:18 PM CSTTornado WarningLZKArkansas27 min
Mar 30, 5:31 PM CSTTornado WarningLZKPrairie19 min
Mar 30, 5:35 PM CSTTornado WarningLZKWoodruff40 min
Apr 3, 5:50 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKNewton40 min
Apr 3, 7:08 PM CDTTornado WarningTSAScott37 min
Apr 3, 7:26 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKYell64 min
Apr 3, 8:11 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKJackson49 min
Apr 3, 8:16 PM CDTTornado WarningMEGCraighead, Poinsett29 min
Apr 3, 8:19 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKGarland, Montgomery41 min
Apr 3, 8:48 PM CDTTornado WarningMEGCraighead27 min
Apr 3, 8:49 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKWhite41 min
Apr 3, 8:54 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKGarland, Saline66 min
Apr 3, 9:10 PM CDTTornado WarningMEGMississippi35 min
Apr 3, 9:34 PM CDTTornado WarningMEGCross26 min
Apr 3, 9:37 PM CDTTornado WarningMEGPoinsett38 min
Apr 3, 9:48 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKPulaski42 min
Apr 3, 9:49 PM CDTTornado WarningMEGMississippi26 min
Apr 3, 9:56 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKJefferson34 min
Apr 4, 1:30 AM CDTTornado WarningSHVLafayette, Miller45 min
Apr 29, 8:42 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKJefferson48 min
May 8, 10:36 PM CDTTornado WarningMEGPhillips54 min
May 16, 12:55 AM CDTTornado WarningSHVMiller65 min
May 18, 7:23 PM CDTTornado WarningTSAPolk52 min
May 18, 7:30 PM CDTTornado WarningSHVHoward60 min
May 21, 5:13 PM CDTTornado WarningTSABenton47 min
May 21, 5:57 PM CDTTornado WarningTSAWashington48 min
May 21, 8:49 PM CDTTornado WarningMEGCross, Poinsett26 min
Jun 2, 4:41 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKDesha34 min
Jun 2, 7:18 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKJackson27 min
Jun 2, 7:30 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKWhite30 min
Jun 4, 6:32 PM CDTTornado WarningMEGCrittenden28 min
Jun 4, 6:57 PM CDTTornado WarningMEGCrittenden48 min
Jun 4, 8:29 PM CDTTornado WarningMEGCrittenden61 min
Jun 5, 11:42 AM CDTTornado WarningMEGCrittenden33 min
Jun 11, 2:35 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKVan Buren33 min
Jun 11, 2:42 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKCleburne33 min
Jun 13, 6:30 PM CDTTornado WarningMEGClay, Greene30 min
Nov 15, 11:00 AM CSTTornado WarningLZKArkansas45 min
Nov 15, 11:44 AM CSTTornado WarningMEGMississippi31 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. April 4, 198915tornado warnings
  2. March 30, 19892tornado warnings
  3. May 19, 19892tornado warnings
  4. May 21, 19892tornado warnings
  5. June 3, 19892tornado warnings
  6. June 4, 19892tornado warnings
  7. June 5, 19892tornado warnings
  8. June 11, 19892tornado warnings
  9. November 15, 19892tornado warnings
  10. March 29, 19891tornado warnings
  11. April 3, 19891tornado warnings
  12. April 30, 19891tornado 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. Rebuilt daily.