Alert archive / Arkansas / Tornado Watches / 1999
Tornado Watches in Arkansas, May 1999
7 tornado watches in May 1999. 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 1999. Tap one for its archive.
- Tornado Watches
- 7
- Busiest day
- May 4, 19994 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 3, 11:30 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Crawford, Sebastian, Washington | 6 hr |
| May 4, 11:00 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Benton, Carroll, Crawford, Franklin, Madison, Scott and 2 more | 5 hr |
| May 4, 3:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Clark, Cleburne and 38 more | 6 hr |
| May 4, 5:45 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Clay and 30 more | 4 hr |
| May 5, 7:45 AM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Chicot, Desha, Drew, Lee and 4 more | 6 hr |
| May 5, 2:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Arkansas, Ashley, Bradley, Calhoun, Chicot, Clay and 29 more | 7 hr |
| May 5, 5:00 PM CDT | Tornado Watch | SPC | Lee, Phillips | 4 hr |
By county
Every county with at least one alert. A county page lists each alert that covered it.
- Lee County4
- Phillips County4
- Benton County3
- Crawford County3
- Sebastian County3
- Washington County3
- Dallas County3
- Ouachita County3
- Pulaski County3
- Arkansas County3
- Ashley County3
- Chicot County3
- Desha County3
- Drew County3
- Lincoln County3
- Monroe County3
- St. Francis County3
- Carroll County2
- Franklin County2
- Madison County2
- Scott County2
- Cleburne County2
- Columbia County2
- Lafayette County2
- Nevada County2
- Sharp County2
- Bradley County2
- Calhoun County2
- Clay County2
- Cleveland County2
- Craighead County2
- Crittenden County2
- Cross County2
- Grant County2
- Greene County2
- Jackson County2
- Jefferson County2
- Lawrence County2
- Lonoke County2
- Mississippi County2
35 more counties
- Poinsett County2
- Prairie County2
- Union County2
- White County2
- Woodruff County2
- Baxter County1
- Boone County1
- Clark County1
- Conway County1
- Faulkner County1
- Fulton County1
- Garland County1
- Hempstead County1
- Hot Spring County1
- Howard County1
- Izard County1
- Johnson County1
- Little River County1
- Logan County1
- Marion County1
- Miller County1
- Montgomery County1
- Newton County1
- Perry County1
- Pike County1
- Polk County1
- Pope County1
- Saline County1
- Searcy County1
- Sevier County1
- Stone County1
- Van Buren County1
- Yell County1
- Independence County1
- Randolph 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.