Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Watches / 1997
Tornado Watches in Arkansas, June 1997
7 tornado watches in June 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 June 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 7
- Busiest day
- June 17, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Little River County4
- Polk County4
- Sevier County4
- Bradley County3
- Howard County3
- Scott County3
- Sebastian County3
- Calhoun County2
- Clark County2
- Cleveland County2
- Columbia County2
- Conway County2
- Dallas County2
- Faulkner County2
- Garland County2
- Grant County2
- Hempstead County2
- Hot Spring County2
- Jefferson County2
- Lafayette County2
- Logan County2
- Lonoke County2
- Miller County2
- Montgomery County2
- Nevada County2
- Ouachita County2
- Perry County2
- Pike County2
- Pulaski County2
- Saline County2
- Union County2
- White County2
- Yell County2
- Crawford County2
- Franklin County2
- Arkansas County1
- Ashley County1
- Chicot County1
- Desha County1
- Drew 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.