Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Warnings / 2009
Tornado Warnings in Arkansas, May 2009
32 tornado warnings in May 2009. 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 May 2009. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Warnings
- 32
- Busiest day
- May 2, 200910 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 1, 6:03 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Benton, Madison, Washington | 57 min |
| May 1, 6:11 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Carroll | 25 min |
| May 1, 6:37 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Carroll, Madison | 53 min |
| May 1, 7:25 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Boone, Newton | 50 min |
| May 1, 7:28 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | TSA | Madison | 22 min |
| May 1, 8:16 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Johnson, Newton | 44 min |
| May 1, 8:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Johnson, Newton, Pope, Searcy, Van Buren | 49 min |
| May 1, 9:54 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Conway, Pope, Van Buren | 51 min |
| May 2, 2:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Cleveland, Dallas, Grant, Jefferson, Lincoln | 52 min |
| May 2, 2:56 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Cleveland, Jefferson, Lincoln | 49 min |
| May 2, 3:51 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Desha, Drew, Lincoln | 39 min |
| May 2, 4:41 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Little River | 64 min |
| May 2, 6:08 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Hempstead, Lafayette, Miller | 67 min |
| May 5, 11:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Calhoun, Cleveland, Dallas, Ouachita | 42 min |
| May 6, 12:30 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Cleveland, Lincoln | 45 min |
| May 6, 12:50 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Arkansas, Monroe | 55 min |
| May 6, 1:43 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Monroe | 17 min |
| May 6, 1:51 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Lee, Phillips | 39 min |
| May 6, 2:22 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Lee, Phillips | 38 min |
| May 6, 4:46 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Cleveland, Drew, Lincoln | 44 min |
| May 8, 11:48 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Clay, Greene | 42 min |
| May 9, 2:09 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Hempstead, Howard, Lafayette, Little River, Miller, Sevier | 66 min |
| May 14, 1:43 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Conway, Pope | 47 min |
| May 14, 2:27 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Clay | 24 min |
| May 14, 3:52 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Little River | 38 min |
| May 14, 4:17 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | SHV | Little River, Miller | 50 min |
| May 16, 2:05 AM CDT | Tornado Warning | LZK | Cleburne | 21 min |
| May 24, 5:26 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Mississippi | 49 min |
| May 24, 5:49 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Mississippi | 41 min |
| May 24, 6:34 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Mississippi | 26 min |
| May 24, 6:52 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Cross, Poinsett | 38 min |
| May 24, 7:29 PM CDT | Tornado Warning | MEG | Craighead, Poinsett | 46 min |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Cleveland County5
- Lincoln County5
- Little River County4
- Madison County3
- Newton County3
- Pope County3
- Miller County3
- Mississippi County3
- Carroll County2
- Johnson County2
- Van Buren County2
- Conway County2
- Dallas County2
- Jefferson County2
- Drew County2
- Hempstead County2
- Lafayette County2
- Monroe County2
- Lee County2
- Phillips County2
- Clay County2
- Poinsett County2
- Benton County1
- Washington County1
- Boone County1
- Searcy County1
- Grant County1
- Desha County1
- Calhoun County1
- Ouachita County1
- Arkansas County1
- Greene County1
- Howard County1
- Sevier County1
- Cleburne County1
- Cross County1
- Craighead 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.