Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Watches / 1997
Tornado Watches in Arkansas, February 1997
5 tornado watches in February 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 February 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 5
- Busiest day
- February 21, 19973 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Ashley County4
- Bradley County3
- Cleburne County3
- Drew County3
- Fulton County3
- Izard County3
- Jefferson County3
- Lincoln County3
- Lonoke County3
- Stone County3
- White County3
- Chicot County3
- Crittenden County3
- Mississippi County3
- Phillips County3
- Baxter County2
- Calhoun County2
- Clark County2
- Cleveland County2
- Columbia County2
- Conway County2
- Dallas County2
- Faulkner County2
- Grant County2
- Hot Spring County2
- Nevada County2
- Ouachita County2
- Perry County2
- Pulaski County2
- Saline County2
- Union County2
- Van Buren County2
- Arkansas County2
- Clay County2
- Craighead County2
- Cross County2
- Desha County2
- Greene County2
- Independence County2
- Jackson County2
35 more counties
- Lawrence County2
- Lee County2
- Monroe County2
- Poinsett County2
- Prairie County2
- Randolph County2
- St. Francis County2
- Sharp County2
- Woodruff County2
- Benton County1
- Boone County1
- Carroll County1
- Crawford County1
- Franklin County1
- Garland County1
- Hempstead County1
- Howard County1
- Johnson County1
- Lafayette County1
- Little River County1
- Logan County1
- Madison County1
- Marion County1
- Miller County1
- Montgomery County1
- Newton County1
- Pike County1
- Polk County1
- Pope County1
- Scott County1
- Searcy County1
- Sebastian County1
- Sevier County1
- Washington County1
- Yell 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.