Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Watches / 1998
Tornado Watches in Arkansas, May 1998
12 tornado watches in May 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 May 1998. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 12
- Busiest day
- May 9, 19985 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 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 |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Randolph County6
- Baxter County5
- Boone County5
- Carroll County5
- Cleburne County5
- Conway County5
- Faulkner County5
- Franklin County5
- Fulton County5
- Independence County5
- Izard County5
- Jackson County5
- Johnson County5
- Madison County5
- Marion County5
- Newton County5
- Pope County5
- Searcy County5
- Sharp County5
- Stone County5
- Van Buren County5
- Benton County4
- Clay County4
- Craighead County4
- Crawford County4
- Crittenden County4
- Cross County4
- Greene County4
- Lawrence County4
- Logan County4
- Mississippi County4
- Poinsett County4
- Washington County4
- White County4
- Woodruff County4
- Perry County4
- Dallas County4
- Grant County4
- Hot Spring County4
- Ouachita County4
35 more counties
- Hempstead County4
- Miller County4
- Sebastian County3
- Scott County3
- Yell County3
- Arkansas County3
- Bradley County3
- Calhoun County3
- Chicot County3
- Cleveland County3
- Desha County3
- Drew County3
- Jefferson County3
- Lee County3
- Lincoln County3
- Lonoke County3
- Monroe County3
- Phillips County3
- Prairie County3
- Pulaski County3
- Saline County3
- Little River County3
- Clark County3
- Columbia County3
- Howard County3
- Lafayette County3
- Nevada County3
- Pike County3
- Ashley County2
- Garland County2
- Montgomery County2
- Polk County2
- Sevier County2
- Union County2
- St. Francis County2
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.