Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Watches
Tornado Watches in Arkansas, 1998
42 tornado watches in 1998. 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 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 42
- Busiest month
- May12 tornado watches
- Busiest day
- May 9, 19985 tornado watches
Over time
By month
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 10, 2:45 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Clark and 15 more | 6 hr |
| Feb 10, 5:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Lee, Phillips | 6 hr |
| Mar 19, 1:15 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Hempstead, Howard, Little River, Pike, Sevier | 6 hr |
| Mar 27, 2:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baxter, Boone, Clark, Cleburne, Cleveland, Conway and 25 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 27, 4:30 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Jackson and 6 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 27, 7:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clark, Cleburne, Cleveland, Conway, Dallas, Faulkner and 21 more | 4 hr |
| Mar 27, 10:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Grant and 17 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 30, 7:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Garland and 17 more | 6 hr |
| Mar 30, 11:00 PM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baxter, Boone, Clark, Clay, Cleburne, Cleveland and 36 more | 5 hr |
| Mar 31, 12:00 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Columbia, Drew, Hempstead and 6 more | 4 hr |
| Apr 8, 7:45 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Chicot, Crittenden, Desha and 6 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 8, 4:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Clark and 29 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 13, 6:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Craighead, Greene, Independence, Jackson, Lawrence and 4 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 15, 6:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Clay, Cleburne and 32 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 16, 12:00 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Clay, Cleburne, Conway, Craighead, Crittenden and 31 more | 5 hr |
| Apr 16, 10:00 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Lee, Mississippi, Phillips and 2 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 16, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Ashley, Chicot | 6 hr |
| Apr 27, 3:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baxter, Boone, Clay, Cleburne, Craighead, Crittenden and 17 more | 6 hr |
| Apr 27, 9:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Chicot | 3 hr |
| May 6, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Clay, Cleburne and 30 more | 6 hr |
| May 6, 8:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Cleburne, Conway and 26 more | 6 hr |
| May 6, 10:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Mississippi and 1 more | 6 hr |
| May 7, 12:45 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Cleveland, Conway and 17 more | 6 hr |
| May 9, 12:45 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Hempstead, Little River, Miller | 5 hr |
| May 9, 12:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Baxter, Benton, Boone, Bradley and 59 more | 6 hr |
| May 9, 1:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Fulton, Randolph | 6 hr |
| May 9, 2:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Lee and 5 more | 6 hr |
| May 9, 6:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Baxter, Boone, Bradley, Calhoun and 51 more | 5 hr |
| May 9, 7:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Lee and 4 more | 6 hr |
| May 25, 12:30 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Cleburne, Crawford and 15 more | 6 hr |
| May 27, 2:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clark, Columbia, Dallas, Grant, Hempstead, Hot Spring and 9 more | 7 hr |
| Jun 4, 6:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baxter, Boone, Carroll, Clay, Cleburne, Conway and 29 more | 6 hr |
| Jun 8, 11:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Garland, Hot Spring, Logan, Montgomery, Perry, Polk and 3 more | 5 hr |
| Jun 9, 7:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Logan, Polk, Scott, Sebastian, Sevier, Yell | 5 hr |
| Jun 13, 9:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Crawford, Washington | 6 hr |
| Jun 14, 4:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Clay, Craighead, Crittenden, Cross, Greene, Independence and 11 more | 6 hr |
| Oct 2, 2:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Miller | 6 hr |
| Oct 2, 8:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Miller | 6 hr |
| Oct 4, 7:15 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Howard and 12 more | 6 hr |
| Oct 4, 11:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Boone, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Madison and 2 more | 6 hr |
| Oct 5, 5:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Calhoun, Clark, Cleburne, Cleveland, Columbia and 27 more | 5 hr |
| Nov 10, 1:45 AM CST | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Baxter, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot and 53 more | 6 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Independence County17
- Jackson County16
- Randolph County16
- Cleburne County15
- Yell County15
- Faulkner County14
- Perry County14
- White County14
- Clay County14
- Lawrence County14
- Sharp County14
- Grant County13
- Hot Spring County13
- Boone County13
- Conway County13
- Izard County13
- Marion County13
- Searcy County13
- Stone County13
- Van Buren County13
- Crittenden County13
- Greene County13
- Poinsett County13
- Woodruff County13
- Jefferson County12
- Pike County12
- Garland County12
- Johnson County12
- Newton County12
- Pope County12
- Prairie County12
- Pulaski County12
- Craighead County12
- Cross County12
- Mississippi County12
- Dallas County11
- Lincoln County11
- Lee County11
- Baxter County11
- Fulton County11
35 more counties
- Lonoke County11
- Saline County11
- Logan County11
- Montgomery County11
- Arkansas County10
- Clark County10
- Cleveland County10
- Phillips County10
- Monroe County10
- Carroll County10
- Crawford County10
- Franklin County10
- Madison County10
- Sebastian County10
- Washington County10
- Chicot County9
- Hempstead County9
- Nevada County9
- Ouachita County9
- Howard County9
- St. Francis County9
- Benton County9
- Scott County9
- Miller County9
- Ashley County8
- Bradley County8
- Calhoun County8
- Columbia County8
- Drew County8
- Lafayette County8
- Sevier County8
- Polk County8
- Desha County7
- Union County6
- Little River County5
The busiest days
Days with the most alerts issued, by UTC date.
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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.