Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Watches / 1997
Tornado Watches in Arkansas, April 1997
5 tornado watches in April 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 April 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 5
- Busiest day
- April 5, 19972 tornado watches
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Ashley County4
- Bradley County3
- Calhoun County3
- Chicot County3
- Drew County3
- Ouachita County3
- Union County3
- Columbia County2
- Hempstead County2
- Lafayette County2
- Miller County2
- Nevada County2
- Cleveland County2
- Dallas County2
- Lincoln County2
- Arkansas County1
- Cleburne County1
- Craighead County1
- Crittenden County1
- Cross County1
- Desha County1
- Grant County1
- Greene County1
- Independence County1
- Jackson County1
- Jefferson County1
- Lawrence County1
- Lee County1
- Lonoke County1
- Mississippi County1
- Monroe County1
- Phillips County1
- Poinsett County1
- Prairie County1
- Pulaski County1
- St. Francis County1
- Sharp County1
- White County1
- Woodruff County1
- Benton County1
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.