Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Warnings / 1997
Tornado Warnings in Arkansas, March 1997
33 tornado warnings in March 1997. 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 March 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 33
- Busiest day
- March 1, 199731 tornado warnings
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mar 1, 8:31 AM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Mississippi | 49 min |
| Mar 1, 12:42 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Johnson | 48 min |
| Mar 1, 12:53 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Newton | 62 min |
| Mar 1, 1:44 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Hempstead | 31 min |
| Mar 1, 2:04 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Baxter | 51 min |
| Mar 1, 2:14 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Clark | 66 min |
| Mar 1, 2:21 PM CST | Tornado Warning | SHV | Nevada | 24 min |
| Mar 1, 2:22 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Fulton | 48 min |
| Mar 1, 2:36 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Faulkner, Lonoke, Pulaski, White | 49 min |
| Mar 1, 2:42 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Hot Spring | 48 min |
| Mar 1, 2:47 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Johnson, Newton | 48 min |
| Mar 1, 2:58 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Newton, Pope, Searcy | 47 min |
| Mar 1, 3:02 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Logan, Yell | 48 min |
| Mar 1, 3:05 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Saline | 65 min |
| Mar 1, 3:16 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Independence, Jackson | 64 min |
| Mar 1, 3:31 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Pulaski | 49 min |
| Mar 1, 3:35 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Baxter, Marion | 50 min |
| Mar 1, 3:38 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Conway, Pope, Van Buren | 62 min |
| Mar 1, 3:54 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Lonoke | 61 min |
| Mar 1, 3:59 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Lawrence | 46 min |
| Mar 1, 4:19 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Stone | 66 min |
| Mar 1, 4:24 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | White | 66 min |
| Mar 1, 4:38 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Greene | 32 min |
| Mar 1, 4:41 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Izard | 64 min |
| Mar 1, 4:50 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Woodruff | 50 min |
| Mar 1, 4:54 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Independence | 36 min |
| Mar 1, 5:07 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Sharp | 48 min |
| Mar 1, 5:11 PM CST | Tornado Warning | LZK | Jackson | 19 min |
| Mar 1, 5:11 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Clay | 49 min |
| Mar 1, 5:19 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Cross, Poinsett | 46 min |
| Mar 1, 5:49 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Craighead | 46 min |
| Mar 1, 6:11 PM CST | Tornado Warning | MEG | Mississippi | 49 min |
| Mar 29, 11:47 PM CST | Tornado Warning | TSA | Crawford | 58 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Newton County3
- Mississippi County2
- Johnson County2
- Baxter County2
- Lonoke County2
- Pulaski County2
- White County2
- Pope County2
- Independence County2
- Jackson County2
- Hempstead County1
- Clark County1
- Nevada County1
- Fulton County1
- Faulkner County1
- Hot Spring County1
- Searcy County1
- Logan County1
- Yell County1
- Saline County1
- Marion County1
- Conway County1
- Van Buren County1
- Lawrence County1
- Stone County1
- Greene County1
- Izard County1
- Woodruff County1
- Sharp County1
- Clay County1
- Cross County1
- Poinsett County1
- Craighead County1
- Crawford 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. Rebuilt daily.