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Tornado Watches in Arkansas, 1997
38 tornado watches in 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 watches reaches back to 1997.
Tornado Watches by county
Each county as a circle sized by its count in 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 38
- Busiest month
- May11 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- May 27, 19974 tornado watches
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 4, 4:15 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Clay and 27 more | 5 hr |
| Feb 20, 6:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ashley, Baxter, Benton, Boone, Bradley, Calhoun and 48 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 20, 11:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Chicot, Clay, Cleburne and 26 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 20, 11:45 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ashley | 5 hr |
| Feb 26, 2:45 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Baxter, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot and 43 more | 5 hr |
| Feb 26, 8:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Chicot, Crittenden, Mississippi, Phillips | 6 hr |
| Mar 1, 12:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baxter, Clark, Clay, Cleburne, Conway, Craighead and 36 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 1, 2:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Lee, Lonoke, Mississippi and 6 more | 7 hr |
| Mar 1, 5:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Cleveland and 9 more | 4 hr |
| Mar 1, 6:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clark, Clay, Cleburne, Conway, Craighead, Dallas and 27 more | 3 hr |
| Mar 1, 9:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Cleveland and 7 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 4, 4:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Columbia, Drew and 6 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 4, 10:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Cleveland, Columbia, Dallas and 8 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 5, 3:15 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Cleburne and 28 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 20, 3:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Johnson and 10 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 22, 8:45 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ashley, Chicot | 6 hr |
| May 2, 1:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Jackson and 4 more | 6 hr |
| May 2, 4:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Columbia, Desha and 7 more | 7 hr |
| May 2, 5:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Baxter, Boone, Carroll, Clark, Clay and 52 more | 6 hr |
| May 26, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baxter, Clay, Fulton, Greene, Marion, Randolph and 1 more | 6 hr |
| May 26, 6:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Sebastian | 6 hr |
| May 26, 9:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Clay, Cleburne and 31 more | 6 hr |
| May 27, 12:15 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleveland, Dallas, Garland and 18 more | 5 hr |
| May 27, 2:45 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Clark and 37 more | 5 hr |
| May 27, 3:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleburne, Cleveland and 40 more | 6 hr |
| May 27, 8:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Chicot | 5 hr |
| May 27, 10:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Crittenden, Cross, Jackson, Jefferson, Lee and 9 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 13, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Little River, Polk, Sevier | 6 hr |
| Jun 13, 7:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Clark and 36 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 16, 4:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Crawford, Franklin, Howard, Little River, Polk, Scott and 2 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 16, 7:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleburne, Cleveland, Conway and 22 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 16, 10:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Crawford, Franklin, Howard, Little River, Polk, Scott and 2 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 16, 11:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bradley, Columbia, Lafayette, Miller, Union | 7 hr |
| Jun 29, 5:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Washington | 6 hr |
| Oct 25, 12:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Little River, Miller | 7 hr |
| Oct 25, 1:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Crawford, Franklin, Howard, Little River, Polk, Scott and 2 more | 7 hr |
| Oct 25, 2:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Clark and 27 more | 6 hr |
| Oct 25, 9:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ashley, Chicot | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Bradley County17
- Ashley County16
- Lonoke County16
- Calhoun County15
- Chicot County15
- Cleveland County14
- Dallas County14
- Drew County14
- Jefferson County14
- Lincoln County14
- Ouachita County14
- Union County14
- White County14
- Grant County13
- Nevada County13
- Arkansas County12
- Columbia County12
- Craighead County12
- Crittenden County12
- Jackson County12
- Phillips County12
- St. Francis County12
- Woodruff County12
- Hempstead County12
- Miller County12
- Pulaski County12
- Cross County11
- Greene County11
- Lee County11
- Monroe County11
- Poinsett County11
- Prairie County11
- Clark County11
- Cleburne County11
- Hot Spring County11
- Howard County11
- Lafayette County11
- Little River County11
- Saline County11
- Desha County10
35 more counties
- Mississippi County10
- Faulkner County10
- Garland County10
- Sevier County10
- Clay County9
- Lawrence County9
- Conway County9
- Montgomery County9
- Perry County9
- Pike County9
- Polk County9
- Scott County9
- Sebastian County9
- Stone County9
- Independence County9
- Randolph County8
- Van Buren County8
- Sharp County8
- Crawford County7
- Franklin County7
- Fulton County7
- Izard County7
- Logan County7
- Yell County7
- Baxter County6
- Johnson County6
- Marion County6
- Pope County6
- Newton County5
- Searcy County5
- Washington County5
- Boone County4
- Carroll County4
- Madison County4
- Benton County3
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. Warning verification from the Mesonet's Cow. Rebuilt daily.