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Tornado Warnings in Arkansas, 2012

63 tornado warnings in 2012. 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 2012. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Warnings
63
Busiest month
January17 tornado warnings
Busiest day
January 23, 201217 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
Jan 22, 6:35 PM CSTTornado WarningLZKCalhoun, Dallas, Ouachita40 min
Jan 22, 6:36 PM CSTTornado WarningLZKDallas, Grant, Hot Spring, Jefferson24 min
Jan 22, 6:58 PM CSTTornado WarningLZKGrant, Jefferson, Lonoke, Pulaski32 min
Jan 22, 7:01 PM CSTTornado WarningLZKCalhoun, Cleveland, Dallas, Ouachita29 min
Jan 22, 7:25 PM CSTTornado Warning EmergencyLZKCleveland, Dallas, Jefferson, Lincoln50 min
Jan 22, 7:29 PM CSTTornado WarningLZKArkansas, Jefferson, Lonoke, Monroe, Prairie31 min
Jan 22, 7:48 PM CSTTornado WarningLZKArkansas, Jefferson, Lonoke, Prairie, Pulaski27 min
Jan 22, 7:55 PM CSTTornado WarningLZKMonroe, Prairie, Woodruff35 min
Jan 22, 8:02 PM CSTTornado WarningLZKArkansas, Jefferson, Lincoln28 min
Jan 22, 8:11 PM CSTTornado WarningMEGLee, St. Francis49 min
Jan 22, 8:12 PM CSTTornado WarningLZKArkansas, Lonoke, Monroe, Prairie33 min
Jan 22, 8:13 PM CSTTornado WarningLZKArkansas, Cleveland, Jefferson, Lincoln47 min
Jan 22, 8:27 PM CSTTornado WarningLZKArkansas, Jefferson, Monroe48 min
Jan 22, 8:43 PM CSTTornado WarningMEGLee, Phillips47 min
Jan 22, 9:18 PM CSTTornado WarningMEGLee, Phillips27 min
Jan 22, 9:46 PM CSTTornado WarningMEGLee, Phillips29 min
Jan 22, 9:55 PM CSTTornado WarningMEGCrittenden, St. Francis22 min
Feb 1, 3:39 PM CSTTornado WarningLZKArkansas, Monroe, Prairie20 min
Feb 1, 4:25 PM CSTTornado WarningMEGPhillips35 min
Feb 1, 4:41 PM CSTTornado WarningMEGPhillips49 min
Feb 29, 12:25 AM CSTTornado WarningTSABenton15 min
Feb 29, 1:28 AM CSTTornado WarningTSACarroll, Madison, Washington32 min
Feb 29, 3:08 AM CSTTornado WarningLZKBaxter, Fulton, Izard, Marion37 min
Feb 29, 3:49 AM CSTTornado WarningLZKFulton, Sharp26 min
Feb 29, 3:51 AM CSTTornado WarningMEGRandolph39 min
Feb 29, 4:01 AM CSTTornado WarningLZKFulton, Izard, Sharp29 min
Feb 29, 4:22 AM CSTTornado WarningMEGLawrence, Randolph38 min
Feb 29, 4:25 AM CSTTornado WarningMEGClay, Randolph50 min
Feb 29, 4:56 AM CSTTornado WarningMEGClay, Randolph49 min
Mar 19, 9:57 PM CDTTornado WarningTSACrawford, Washington33 min
Mar 20, 5:14 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKCleburne, Faulkner, Van Buren31 min
Mar 20, 6:15 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKCleburne, Independence, Izard, Stone19 min
Mar 20, 6:17 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKLonoke, Prairie, White28 min
Mar 20, 6:42 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKCleburne, Lonoke, Prairie, White33 min
Apr 3, 6:53 PM CDTTornado WarningSHVLafayette, Miller67 min
Apr 15, 9:42 AM CDTTornado WarningTSABenton, Washington33 min
Apr 15, 6:01 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKCleburne, Conway, Faulkner, Van Buren29 min
Jun 3, 7:47 PM CDTTornado WarningMEGMississippi43 min
Jun 3, 8:07 PM CDTTornado WarningMEGMississippi26 min
Aug 31, 7:02 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKArkansas, Jefferson, Lincoln28 min
Sep 1, 4:19 PM CDTTornado WarningMEGClay26 min
Sep 1, 4:41 PM CDTTornado WarningMEGClay, Greene, Randolph34 min
Sep 1, 4:47 PM CDTTornado WarningMEGClay28 min
Sep 1, 4:55 PM CDTTornado WarningMEGCraighead, Greene35 min
Sep 1, 5:15 PM CDTTornado WarningMEGClay, Greene25 min
Sep 1, 5:57 PM CDTTornado WarningMEGGreene48 min
Sep 1, 7:21 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKMonroe, Prairie, Woodruff24 min
Oct 17, 6:48 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKGrant27 min
Oct 17, 6:48 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKLonoke, Monroe, Prairie42 min
Oct 17, 7:19 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKGrant, Jefferson26 min
Oct 17, 7:27 PM CDTTornado WarningLZKMonroe, Prairie48 min
Oct 17, 7:30 PM CDTTornado WarningMEGLee, Phillips30 min
Oct 17, 7:38 PM CDTTornado WarningMEGCrittenden, Mississippi, Poinsett52 min
Oct 17, 7:43 PM CDTTornado WarningMEGLee, Phillips32 min
Oct 17, 8:05 PM CDTTornado WarningMEGCrittenden, Mississippi25 min
Oct 17, 8:08 PM CDTTornado WarningMEGLee, Phillips22 min
Oct 17, 8:23 PM CDTTornado WarningMEGLee, Phillips37 min
Oct 17, 9:41 PM CDTTornado WarningJANChicot30 min
Dec 9, 2:12 PM CSTTornado WarningLZKIzard, Sharp48 min
Dec 9, 2:54 PM CSTTornado WarningLZKSharp36 min
Dec 9, 3:13 PM CSTTornado WarningMEGLawrence, Randolph32 min
Dec 19, 9:48 PM CSTTornado WarningTSACrawford, Franklin, Sebastian11 min
Dec 20, 2:39 AM CSTTornado WarningLZKArkansas, Monroe36 min

By county

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

7 more counties

The busiest days

Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.

  1. January 23, 201217tornado warnings
  2. February 29, 20129tornado warnings
  3. October 18, 20129tornado warnings
  4. September 1, 20127tornado warnings
  5. March 20, 20125tornado warnings
  6. February 1, 20123tornado warnings
  7. December 9, 20123tornado warnings
  8. April 15, 20122tornado warnings
  9. June 4, 20122tornado warnings
  10. October 17, 20122tornado warnings
  11. December 20, 20122tornado warnings
  12. April 3, 20121tornado 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.