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Tornado Warnings in Arkansas, 2002

77 tornado warnings in 2002. 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 2002. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings: 77
Busiest month: December48 tornado warnings
Busiest day: December 18, 200224 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.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Jan 23, 4:15 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Johnson, Logan	35 min
Jan 23, 4:34 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Pope	41 min
Jan 23, 6:41 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Marion	39 min
Jan 23, 6:55 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Baxter	40 min
Jan 23, 8:34 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Stone, Van Buren	41 min
Mar 9, 1:52 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Van Buren	23 min
Mar 9, 2:02 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Stone	28 min
Mar 9, 2:28 AM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Izard	32 min
Mar 15, 7:33 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Chicot	42 min
Mar 29, 4:46 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Craighead, Poinsett	29 min
Apr 7, 11:53 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	SHV	Lafayette	37 min
Apr 16, 5:54 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Pope	21 min
Apr 16, 6:15 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Pope	15 min
Apr 28, 12:32 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Sharp	13 min
Apr 28, 12:36 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Randolph	39 min
Apr 28, 1:21 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Clay	24 min
May 1, 8:44 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Benton	31 min
May 1, 9:00 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Washington	45 min
May 1, 9:33 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Madison	42 min
May 2, 1:38 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Washington	37 min
May 2, 2:03 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Madison	42 min
May 9, 3:35 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	TSA	Crawford, Sebastian	55 min
May 9, 5:00 AM CDT	Tornado Warning	LZK	Yell	35 min
Jun 5, 8:16 PM CDT	Tornado Warning	MEG	Crittenden, Mississippi, Poinsett	29 min
Nov 9, 9:09 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Cross	51 min
Nov 9, 9:23 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Crittenden, Cross	22 min
Nov 9, 9:44 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Crittenden, Mississippi	31 min
Nov 9, 10:00 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Mississippi	30 min
Nov 10, 5:13 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Drew	22 min
Dec 18, 3:30 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Faulkner	30 min
Dec 18, 3:44 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Garland	31 min
Dec 18, 3:47 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Hot Spring	28 min
Dec 18, 3:51 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Cleburne, White	29 min
Dec 18, 3:58 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Saline	47 min
Dec 18, 4:17 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Faulkner, White	43 min
Dec 18, 4:18 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Garland	27 min
Dec 18, 4:24 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Pulaski	46 min
Dec 18, 4:34 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Ashley	46 min
Dec 18, 4:40 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Grant, Jefferson	30 min
Dec 18, 4:49 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Independence, Jackson	31 min
Dec 18, 4:58 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Lonoke	47 min
Dec 18, 5:00 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	Union	30 min
Dec 18, 5:02 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Lonoke, White	43 min
Dec 18, 5:03 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Faulkner	47 min
Dec 18, 5:07 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	Lafayette	23 min
Dec 18, 5:11 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Drew	44 min
Dec 18, 5:20 PM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Ashley	30 min
Dec 18, 5:22 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Prairie	58 min
Dec 18, 5:34 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	Columbia	41 min
Dec 18, 5:41 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Ouachita	29 min
Dec 18, 5:46 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Jackson, White, Woodruff	39 min
Dec 18, 5:50 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Desha	45 min
Dec 18, 5:53 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Monroe	27 min
Dec 18, 6:00 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Cross, Poinsett	45 min
Dec 18, 6:12 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Ouachita	43 min
Dec 18, 6:31 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Phillips	44 min
Dec 18, 6:59 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Calhoun	31 min
Dec 18, 7:12 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Cleveland, Jefferson	43 min
Dec 18, 7:51 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Arkansas	44 min
Dec 18, 7:54 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Cleveland, Lincoln	46 min
Dec 18, 7:59 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Ouachita	41 min
Dec 18, 8:14 PM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	Columbia	46 min
Dec 18, 8:15 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Jefferson	40 min
Dec 18, 8:34 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Arkansas	41 min
Dec 18, 8:45 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Calhoun	30 min
Dec 18, 9:03 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Monroe	42 min
Dec 18, 9:13 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	St. Francis	47 min
Dec 18, 9:16 PM CST	Tornado Warning	MEG	Lee, Phillips	59 min
Dec 18, 9:24 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Cleveland	41 min
Dec 18, 9:37 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Calhoun	33 min
Dec 18, 9:47 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Lincoln	43 min
Dec 18, 9:52 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Bradley, Cleveland	43 min
Dec 18, 9:57 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Arkansas	43 min
Dec 18, 10:42 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Desha, Lincoln	43 min
Dec 18, 10:43 PM CST	Tornado Warning	LZK	Arkansas	32 min
Dec 19, 12:00 AM CST	Tornado Warning	SHV	Union	30 min
Dec 19, 3:54 AM CST	Tornado Warning	JAN	Ashley	61 min

By county

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

13 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

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.