Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Watches / 1998
Tornado Watches in Arkansas, April 1998
9 tornado watches in April 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 April 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 9
- Busiest day
- April 16, 19983 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Crittenden County5
- Jackson County5
- Poinsett County5
- Chicot County4
- Lee County4
- Phillips County4
- St. Francis County4
- Cleburne County4
- Cross County4
- White County4
- Clay County4
- Craighead County4
- Greene County4
- Independence County4
- Lawrence County4
- Mississippi County4
- Randolph County4
- Sharp County4
- Arkansas County3
- Ashley County3
- Monroe County3
- Faulkner County3
- Pulaski County3
- Saline County3
- Woodruff County3
- Izard County3
- Stone County3
- Van Buren County3
- Bradley County2
- Desha County2
- Drew County2
- Lincoln County2
- Grant County2
- Hot Spring County2
- Jefferson County2
- Lonoke County2
- Prairie County2
- Baxter County2
- Boone County2
- Conway County2
30 more counties
- Fulton County2
- Garland County2
- Marion County2
- Montgomery County2
- Perry County2
- Searcy County2
- Yell County2
- Calhoun County1
- Clark County1
- Cleveland County1
- Columbia County1
- Dallas County1
- Lafayette County1
- Nevada County1
- Ouachita County1
- Union County1
- Benton County1
- Carroll County1
- Crawford County1
- Franklin County1
- Johnson County1
- Logan County1
- Madison County1
- Newton County1
- Polk County1
- Pope County1
- Scott County1
- Sebastian County1
- Washington County1
- Pike 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.