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.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| May 2, 1:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Jackson and 4 more | 6 hr |
| May 2, 4:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Columbia, Desha and 7 more | 7 hr |
| May 2, 5:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Baxter, Boone, Carroll, Clark, Clay and 52 more | 6 hr |
| May 26, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baxter, Clay, Fulton, Greene, Marion, Randolph and 1 more | 6 hr |
| May 26, 6:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Sebastian | 6 hr |
| May 26, 9:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Clay, Cleburne and 31 more | 6 hr |
| May 27, 12:15 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleveland, Dallas, Garland and 18 more | 5 hr |
| May 27, 2:45 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Clark and 37 more | 5 hr |
| May 27, 3:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Bradley, Calhoun, Clark, Cleburne, Cleveland and 40 more | 6 hr |
| May 27, 8:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Chicot | 5 hr |
| May 27, 10:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Crittenden, Cross, Jackson, Jefferson, Lee and 9 more | 5 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Cross County6
- Jackson County6
- Poinsett County6
- St. Francis County6
- Woodruff County6
- Craighead County5
- Crittenden County5
- Greene County5
- Jefferson County5
- Lonoke County5
- White County5
- Clay County4
- Mississippi County4
- Bradley County4
- Calhoun County4
- Hempstead County4
- Nevada County4
- Ouachita County4
- Arkansas County4
- Clark County4
- Cleburne County4
- Cleveland County4
- Dallas County4
- Faulkner County4
- Garland County4
- Grant County4
- Hot Spring County4
- Independence County4
- Lee County4
- Lincoln County4
- Monroe County4
- Phillips County4
- Prairie County4
- Pulaski County4
- Saline County4
- Chicot County3
- Columbia County3
- Drew County3
- Lafayette County3
- Miller County3
35 more counties
- Union County3
- Baxter County3
- Conway County3
- Fulton County3
- Howard County3
- Lawrence County3
- Marion County3
- Montgomery County3
- Perry County3
- Pike County3
- Randolph County3
- Sebastian County3
- Sharp County3
- Stone County3
- Van Buren County3
- Ashley County2
- Desha County2
- Boone County2
- Carroll County2
- Crawford County2
- Franklin County2
- Izard County2
- Johnson County2
- Logan County2
- Madison County2
- Newton County2
- Polk County2
- Pope County2
- Scott County2
- Searcy County2
- Sevier County2
- Washington County2
- Yell County2
- Little River County2
- Benton 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.