Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Watches / 1997

Tornado Watches in Arkansas, May 1997

11 tornado watches in May 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 May 1997. Tap one for its archive.

Tornado Watches
11
Busiest day
May 27, 19974 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.

IssuedProductOfficeCountiesLasted
May 2, 1:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCClay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Jackson and 4 more6 hr
May 2, 4:30 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCAshley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Columbia, Desha and 7 more7 hr
May 2, 5:15 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCArkansas, Baxter, Boone, Carroll, Clark, Clay and 52 more6 hr
May 26, 3:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBaxter, Clay, Fulton, Greene, Marion, Randolph and 1 more6 hr
May 26, 6:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCSebastian6 hr
May 26, 9:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCBaxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Clay, Cleburne and 31 more6 hr
May 27, 12:15 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCBradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleveland, Dallas, Garland and 18 more5 hr
May 27, 2:45 AM CDTTornado WatchSPCArkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Clark and 37 more5 hr
May 27, 3:45 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCArkansas, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleburne, Cleveland and 40 more6 hr
May 27, 8:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCChicot5 hr
May 27, 10:00 PM CDTTornado WatchSPCArkansas, Crittenden, Cross, Jackson, Jefferson, Lee and 9 more5 hr

By county

Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.

35 more counties

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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.