Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Watches / 1998
Tornado Watches in Arkansas, March 1998
8 tornado watches in March 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 March 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 8
- Busiest day
- March 31, 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Garland County4
- Grant County4
- Independence County4
- Jefferson County4
- Johnson County4
- Lonoke County4
- Marion County4
- Newton County4
- Perry County4
- Pope County4
- Prairie County4
- Pulaski County4
- Searcy County4
- White County4
- Yell County4
- Howard County3
- Pike County3
- Sevier County3
- Boone County3
- Clark County3
- Cleburne County3
- Cleveland County3
- Conway County3
- Dallas County3
- Faulkner County3
- Hot Spring County3
- Izard County3
- Lincoln County3
- Saline County3
- Stone County3
- Van Buren County3
- Clay County3
- Greene County3
- Jackson County3
- Lawrence County3
- Randolph County3
- Woodruff County3
- Hempstead County2
- Little River County2
- Baxter County2
33 more counties
- Fulton County2
- Nevada County2
- Craighead County2
- Crittenden County2
- Cross County2
- Mississippi County2
- Poinsett County2
- Sharp County2
- Logan County2
- Montgomery County2
- Arkansas County1
- Lee County1
- Monroe County1
- Phillips County1
- St. Francis County1
- Benton County1
- Carroll County1
- Crawford County1
- Franklin County1
- Madison County1
- Polk County1
- Scott County1
- Sebastian County1
- Washington County1
- Ashley County1
- Bradley County1
- Calhoun County1
- Columbia County1
- Drew County1
- Lafayette County1
- Miller County1
- Ouachita County1
- Union 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.