Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Watches / 1997
Tornado Watches in Arkansas, March 1997
5 tornado watches in March 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 March 1997. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 5
- Busiest day
- March 1, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Craighead County3
- Lonoke County3
- Clark County2
- Clay County2
- Cleburne County2
- Conway County2
- Faulkner County2
- Garland County2
- Grant County2
- Greene County2
- Hempstead County2
- Hot Spring County2
- Howard County2
- Independence County2
- Izard County2
- Jackson County2
- Lawrence County2
- Little River County2
- Miller County2
- Montgomery County2
- Nevada County2
- Perry County2
- Pike County2
- Pulaski County2
- Randolph County2
- Saline County2
- Sevier County2
- Sharp County2
- Stone County2
- Van Buren County2
- White County2
- Crittenden County2
- Lee County2
- Phillips County2
- Arkansas County2
- Ashley County2
- Bradley County2
- Calhoun County2
- Chicot County2
- Cleveland County2
27 more counties
- Dallas County2
- Desha County2
- Drew County2
- Lafayette County2
- Lincoln County2
- Union County2
- Baxter County1
- Fulton County1
- Johnson County1
- Logan County1
- Marion County1
- Newton County1
- Polk County1
- Pope County1
- Scott County1
- Searcy County1
- Yell County1
- Cross County1
- Mississippi County1
- Monroe County1
- Poinsett County1
- Prairie County1
- St. Francis County1
- Woodruff County1
- Columbia County1
- Jefferson County1
- Ouachita 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.